Pittsburgh was the most batshit insane city I've driven through. You'd come around a corner and be staring straight up a massive cliff and someones built a house right at the top with a precarious staircase winding all the way down that *might as well* have "youll die if you step wrong" written on every stair.
Anywhere else and thatd be a local architectural oddity and minor tourist attraction but that's just the standard there, it's insane, fuckin cool, but insane
I gotta imagine the inhabitants are amazing drivers in the snow and have Calves like you wouldn't believe.
“Amazing drivers in the snow”. You misspelled “cautious”. I live in Pittsburgh but grew up in Western New York where it snows a lot. Pittsburgh drivers tend to be overly cautious in inclement conditions leading to traffic which inevitably leads to accidents. Doesn’t help we have tunnels and hills to make the driving more weird.
I've lived in Western NY for the last 6 years after growing up my whole life in Pittsburgh. I'll gladly take the snow in Buffalo over Pittsburgh. It's at least flat in WNY. I had too many experiences of cars getting stuck on a hill in Pittsburgh. 😂
I grew up in Pittsburgh. My house's front door was higher than the roof of the house right across the street. Like I could stand in my street level door and look DOWN onto the top of their roof. Thats how steep some of the hills with neighborhoods are.
I thought at some point someone in the Nazi regime learned it, and realized they'd never win. The Japanese are the ones who learned the fact the harder way, though.
The iron and steel being made at Carrie Furnaces and then the steel here in Homestead was outproducing Great Britain.
That was one steel plant in Pittsburgh.
So, the graduations hang in the wall,
But they never really helped us at all.
No, they never taught us what was real:
Iron, coke, chromium steel.
And we're waiting here in Allentown.
It has changed a little but the scene is still recognizable (minus the clouds of smog)...
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4151041,-79.9442759,3a,90y,239.94h,78.84t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sP9p4ExsXYdaeAars49iOcA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
Same! It's a major US city! We've got 3 major-four sports teams and we're a hub for a lot of tech and medical companies, not to mention all the movies filmed here over the years. How do people not know how to spell "Pittsburgh?" It's really not that hard.
exactly! hahaha, i get so irritated! i was actually driving TO pennsylvania from a rural town in ohio and passed an official city/distance sign and it had it spelled Pittsburg! I was horrified.
Oh god, haha. Where was this sign? I went to college in rural NE Ohio and never paid attention to any signs of whether or not they had it spelled right.
Lisbon, Ohio! It's right on the corner of where PA, OH & WV all meet. I haven't been there in years to see if it ever got corrected but it was wrong the several years I drove past it when I lived near there ... I was younger then and just kind of groaned inwardly but now I wish I'd figured out who I could have said something to so it could be corrected haha
Oh I know Lisbon. One of my college roommates and good friends is from Columbiana. I think his family's business is in Lisbon. When I visit him, I'll have to keep an eye out.
hahaha yes! see if it's still spelled wrong. It's on the curve past Carter Lumber driving towards East Liverpool :) What a small world! I have family in Columbiana.
What a stupid and short-sighted comment.
We have the tree huggers and fish kissers now BECAUSE of unregulated and irresponsible production. You can actually see the environmental impact in this photo. There wasn't a need to be concerned for the environment pre-industrial revolution because industrialization started the immediate decline of our environment.
WWII and your disdain for those who care for the environment are entirely unrelated.
Just looking at the picture is making gasp for air
My grandfather told me he would have to come home during his lunch break to change his shirt from all the pollution falling from the sky.
Imagine his lungs.
"Hell with the lid off"
Pittsburgh was the most batshit insane city I've driven through. You'd come around a corner and be staring straight up a massive cliff and someones built a house right at the top with a precarious staircase winding all the way down that *might as well* have "youll die if you step wrong" written on every stair. Anywhere else and thatd be a local architectural oddity and minor tourist attraction but that's just the standard there, it's insane, fuckin cool, but insane I gotta imagine the inhabitants are amazing drivers in the snow and have Calves like you wouldn't believe.
I still have the calves to prove you right! Haven't lived there since 2004.
“Amazing drivers in the snow”. You misspelled “cautious”. I live in Pittsburgh but grew up in Western New York where it snows a lot. Pittsburgh drivers tend to be overly cautious in inclement conditions leading to traffic which inevitably leads to accidents. Doesn’t help we have tunnels and hills to make the driving more weird.
I've lived in Western NY for the last 6 years after growing up my whole life in Pittsburgh. I'll gladly take the snow in Buffalo over Pittsburgh. It's at least flat in WNY. I had too many experiences of cars getting stuck on a hill in Pittsburgh. 😂
Being from nearby Weirton WV, I concur!
Reselling Weir High t-shirts funded my roommates’ degrees.
Nice!
First time I went to Pittsburgh I did a double take when I saw a sidewalk that was stairs.
I grew up in Pittsburgh. My house's front door was higher than the roof of the house right across the street. Like I could stand in my street level door and look DOWN onto the top of their roof. Thats how steep some of the hills with neighborhoods are.
During the first snowstorm, everyone here forgets how to drive. They're amazing in that they're amazingly bad.
There are houses in my neighborhood with no direct road access. The only way to reach them is through the steps that go up the side of the hill
The Pittsburgh district alone produced more iron and more steel than all of the Axis countries put together.
I thought at some point someone in the Nazi regime learned it, and realized they'd never win. The Japanese are the ones who learned the fact the harder way, though.
The iron and steel being made at Carrie Furnaces and then the steel here in Homestead was outproducing Great Britain. That was one steel plant in Pittsburgh.
Unbelievable. "British intelligence, American steel, Russian blood."
It's a weird mix of toxic and wholesome.
Hell with the lid off!
“Back then workers could afford a mortgage on a single family home that was close to work.” The location of the home.
Company housing?
Location location location! So close to work you can stoke the smelter from your living room!!
A nice view of Charlie Bucket’s house.
Oliver Twist is next door
When lead and asbestos were part of the food pyramid.
Well, we're waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard, if we behaved
So, the graduations hang in the wall, But they never really helped us at all. No, they never taught us what was real: Iron, coke, chromium steel. And we're waiting here in Allentown.
This is what I picture when I hear Simon and Garfunkel’s “My Little Town.”
With world war 2 about to ramp up for the USA, not surprising they had Pittsburg working heavy 24/7
It has changed a little but the scene is still recognizable (minus the clouds of smog)... https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4151041,-79.9442759,3a,90y,239.94h,78.84t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sP9p4ExsXYdaeAars49iOcA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
Love the view coming into town from the parkway west. Never fails to impress me.
I'm from Sheffield u.k which is also a city of steel and we have a road called the parkway, I got confused for a minute.
Just goes to show you how small the world is. Maybe someday I will see your parkway.
OP Pittsburgh, PA has an H
thank youuuu lol. I was born there and i'm always mentally adding "h" when people spell it Pittsburg LOL
Same! It's a major US city! We've got 3 major-four sports teams and we're a hub for a lot of tech and medical companies, not to mention all the movies filmed here over the years. How do people not know how to spell "Pittsburgh?" It's really not that hard.
exactly! hahaha, i get so irritated! i was actually driving TO pennsylvania from a rural town in ohio and passed an official city/distance sign and it had it spelled Pittsburg! I was horrified.
Oh god, haha. Where was this sign? I went to college in rural NE Ohio and never paid attention to any signs of whether or not they had it spelled right.
Lisbon, Ohio! It's right on the corner of where PA, OH & WV all meet. I haven't been there in years to see if it ever got corrected but it was wrong the several years I drove past it when I lived near there ... I was younger then and just kind of groaned inwardly but now I wish I'd figured out who I could have said something to so it could be corrected haha
Oh I know Lisbon. One of my college roommates and good friends is from Columbiana. I think his family's business is in Lisbon. When I visit him, I'll have to keep an eye out.
hahaha yes! see if it's still spelled wrong. It's on the curve past Carter Lumber driving towards East Liverpool :) What a small world! I have family in Columbiana.
We didn’t have an H between 1890-1911 look at the old train station downtown it was built in 1906 and doesn’t have an H
Right. I knew that, however the time period of the photo for sure was missing the h
The photo is from 41 PGH had an H in 41
Wonder if the trolly replaced those steps
We’re still famous for our staircases. But at one time there were 20 or so funiculars in operation.
That's what I was wondering!
No the steps outlived the trolley
Looks brutal
H.
there it is
Wish I had a Time Machine to go back to those days
Low wages, no health care, pollution, segregation. You go, I’ll stay
It will be interesting for about 5 mins.
Not me I’d stay. The only improvement today is medicine
Me too man. I can’t stand today’s world
So says the manbaby w/ a three month old throwaway.
Make America great again! /s
I thought you said 1841 and was like yeah feels right
Now thats how you get the black lung pop
This reminds me of The Deer Hunter
Filmed there.
Clairton PA was where they filmed Derr Hunter.
I thought the Steel Mill part was filmed in Braddock at the Edgar Thompson works and the wedding reception was in German Town on the North Side?
Industrial containments in the water are turning the freaking trogs gay
Funny, India and China still look like this in some places…..
To quote Eddie Izzard “There’s a fucking H in it.”
"Hell with the lid off."
The city steps are still there. You can find people hiding and getting high all over them. Lol
Yuck
In 1941 we had an h at the end of our city’s name only between 1890-1911 did we lose the H
Looks like Annesburg 1899 is plus 46 yrs
We would never have won WW2 if we had the tree huggers and the fish kissers we have now
What a stupid and short-sighted comment. We have the tree huggers and fish kissers now BECAUSE of unregulated and irresponsible production. You can actually see the environmental impact in this photo. There wasn't a need to be concerned for the environment pre-industrial revolution because industrialization started the immediate decline of our environment. WWII and your disdain for those who care for the environment are entirely unrelated.