[Leica] RE: RE: PITTSBURGH

["Mary and Stan Kephart" <kephartol@att.net>]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for sharing your recollections of Pittsburgh. I take it you lived
there at one time.
The links are very interesting.  I think we'll be taking your advice.

Gratefully,

MJK

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>From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Leica Users digest)
>To: leica-users-digest@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: Leica Users digest V10 #20
>Date: Wed, Jul 14, 1999, 9:32 PM
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>Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 15:01:00 +0100
>From: Mark Walberg <Walberg@simmons.swmed.edu>
>Subject: Re: [Leica] PITTSBURGH
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>Pittsburgh is a pretty city.  Take a walk throught Point State Park, where
>the three rivers meet.  Take a walk along the edge of Mount Washington,
>across the Monongahela from downtown-the view from there is great, day or
>night.  You can see all the bridges from Mount Washington.  The area called
>Oakland, where the U. of Pittsburgh is, has a lot of interesting places.
>The Carnegie Museum there is full of fascinating stuff.  They've got great
>dinosaurs.  The art museum nearby is also good.  Take a look in the Heinz
>Chapel (a very pretty chapel), next to the U of Pitt Cathedral of Learning,
>if it is open.
>   If you can, take a look at Gene Smith's Pittsburgh pictures.  A lot of
>them, along with many other historical pictures can be found in Stephan
>Lorant's "Pittsburgh, The Story of an American City".   The history of the
>place is very interesting.  Lorant's book has some remarkable photographs
>of downtown at mid day that look almost dark - stores and cars have their
>lights on - due to the coal burned to make steel.  That is, of course, all
>gone now.
>There are also some good Pittsburgh pictures by Gene Smith here (look at
>the link marked View Photographs).
>http://www.doubletakemagazine.org/issues/12/smith/index.html
>    The Carnegie Library main branch in Oakland (next to U.Pitt and the
>museum) has a photographic library that I plan to see the next time I'm
>there.  Here is a description -   http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/photog13.html
>    THe steel mills were neat, but they are gone.  You can find a lot of
>interesting old houses all over Pittsburgh - except where all the new
>developments are being built.  Manchester, on the North side, is a good
>place to see the old houses.  A drive through the huge Uniondale Cemetery,
>also on the North Side is interesting, with some great views of downtown in
>some spots.  A visit to the locks on the river is kind of interesting.
>There are locks here and there along the rivers that the barges and boats
>must go through.  The one I know well is the one in Emsworth, out the Ohio
>River Blvd.  If you have the time, it is fun to take a river boat ride from
>downtown.
>  If you really have some time, you can drive out of Pittsburgh to Falling
>water - which is a remarkable house that Frank Lloyd Wright built (for
>Edgar Kauffman, I think).   It is it in the country in a beautiful area.
>The house has a stream going through it with a waterfall.
>   The area called the strip had some neat shops, including a teriffic
>seafood shop (called Wolley's, I think).  I don't know what the strip is
>like now, but it is worth asking a Pittsburgher about it.
>     Yeah, I kind of miss Pittsburgh.    Have fun.
>- -Mark Walberg
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