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Penn Avenue in the Cultural District
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An Alley in Lawrenceville
Canon PowerShot SX150 IS. Garden Way looking eastward from Fisk Street.
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Milgate Street, Bloomfield
Kodak EasyShare Z1285. These frame houses were built in the 1880s and 1890s. They are detached houses—detached by just enough room for an average person to walk between them. As a group, they form a good document of the things ambitious salesmen could sell to middle-class homeowners in the twentieth century. Not a single one retains its original details: they have all had their siding replaced, and most have smaller windows than the originals. And, of course, several have sprouted aluminum awnings.
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Alley in Lawrenceville
Canon PowerShot SX150 IS. Garden Way, looking eastward toward Children’s Hospital.
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Imperial
Founded as Montour City, Imperial was renamed for the mining company that founded it, the Imperial Coal Company. It is picturesque in its decay, and yet not decayed enough that it is not a pleasant town to live in. The buildings along the old Montour Railroad below, for example, are still in use by a construction contractor. The other two views are parts of the business district on Main Street, which has little business these days.
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Henry Street, Oakland
Canon PowerShot SX150 IS. Outsiders visiting Pittsburgh are often surprised to find that, when buildings are in the way, we just drive right through them. This is Henry Street, which goes through the Software Engineering Institute.
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Wood Street
The entire length of Wood Street, from Fort Pitt Boulevard in the foreground to Liberty Avenue at the other end.
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Smallman Street, Strip District
The broad plaza of Smallman Street in the Strip, looking toward downtown from 21st Street.
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Made in USSR
So the lens says, though the camera says “Sony.” Father Pitt happened to be in Beechview today, so here is a typical Beechview streetscape as seen by an old Soviet “Индустар” (“Industar”) lens, a copy of the Zeiss Tessar, mounted on a Sony Alpha 3000 camera.
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Liberty Avenue
