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Tom and Franco Harris outside the Pittsburgh History Center
One of Pittsburgh's many yellow bridges near the Strip District
Note the soot on the bridge abutment from Pittsburgh's industrial past.
Converted Warehouses-The Strip District (Dripping with character, the Strip District is a place like no other. One visit and you can sense the energy and vitality of "The Strip", as it's called by locals. With its gritty atmosphere, The Strip is alive with energy. And one look around and it's easy to envision what must have been like in decades past. Old factories and warehouses have been converted to lofts and upscale residential living. The Strip District gets its name from its geographic location. It's a mile-long stretch of land located directly northeast of downtown Pittsburgh. "The Strip" is just that—a narrow strip of land sandwiched between the Allegheny River to the north and an immense hill to the south)
Flowers for sale from an old warehouse.
Strip District-St. Stanislaus Kostka RC Church (1892)
Peace, Love and Little Donuts. We bought six and ate them all.
Looking back towards downtown from the Strip District
Pamela's Diner is a Pittsburgh institution and after eating breakfast there we understood why.
Pamela's Diner-Food to die for.
The town is crazy for their team
Strip District
Food of every variety is available in the Strip District
Opa! Stamoolis.
Pennsylvania Macaroni Company, an iconic purveyor of imported Italian foods. (Awesome little store. Well, actually it's not that little. Obviously they kill it when it comes to pasta, but they have all kinds of stuff. It's a full market where you can buy produce, cheese, sauces, etc. We had a blast just looking around. Didn't even buy anything. Whether you are a local or a tourist like we were, it's worth checking out. Iconic grocery store.)
Strip District Public Art
The amazing Pennsylvania Macaroni Company
PennMac-If it's Italian, they've got it.
Dive in!
Strip District
Strip District
Note the ND caps for sale along with the local teams' lids
Food everywhere in the Strip District
They can't be happy that their sign is cracked.
The Heinz Empire is Pittsburgh-based (The Heinz family has long been prominent in Pittsburgh's business, civic, political and philanthropic arenas.)
57 Varieties, like our dog.
A vintage Heinz delivery wagon manufactured in South Bend, IN. Senator John Heinz History Center (We spent over two hours in The Senator John Heinz History Center, time well spent. Pittsburgh's history is deep and rich.)
Senator John Heinz History Center-A massive Civil War era cannon manufactured in Pittsburgh
A Pennsylvania regiment in the Civil War-Heinz History Center (Pennsylvania's and Pittsburgh's role in the Civil War was pivotal. Only New York supplied more troops to the Union effort. The Keystone State's manufacturing power--weapons, ammunition, locomotives and more--was decisive. And, of course, the battle of Gettysburg was fought here, the epic conflict that broke the back of the Confederacy.)
A Native American-1700s. Heinz History Center
Andrew Carnegie-Industrialist, visionary, philanthropist. A giant of Pittsburgh (Andrew Carnegie (November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He was also one of the highest profile philanthropists of his era; his 1889 article proclaiming "The Gospel of Wealth" called on the rich to use their wealth to improve society, and stimulated wave after wave of philanthropy.Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, and emigrated to the United States with his very poor parents in 1848. Carnegie started as a telegrapher and by the 1860s had investments in railroads, railroad sleeping cars, bridges and oil derricks. He built further wealth as a bond salesman raising money for American enterprise in Europe. He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which he sold to J.P. Morgan in 1901 for $480 million (the equivalent of approximately $13.5 billion in 2012), creating the U.S. Steel Corporati)
The great George Marshall, General of the Army, was from the Pittsburgh area (George Catlett Marshall, Jr. GCB (December 31, 1880 – October 16, 1959), was an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense. Once noted as the "organizer of victory" by Winston Churchill for his leadership of the Allied victory in World War II,[4] Marshall served as the United States Army Chief of Staff during the war and as the chief military adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.Marshall's name was given to the Marshall Plan, subsequent to a commencement address he presented as Secretary of State at Harvard University in the spring of 1947. The speech broadly outlined for Europeans to create their own plan for rebuilding Europe after WWII, funded by the United States. Marshall received the Nobel Peace Prize for the plan in 1953.)
Jonas Salk developed the Polio vaccine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. (Jonas Edward Salk (October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995) was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed the first successful polio vaccine.)
Franco Harris and the "Immaculate Reception" one of all time highlights of Pittsburgh sports history
The Pittsburgh Popcorn Company, a place for serious popcorn addicts like my wife.
Dozens of exotic flavors at the Pitsburgh Popcorn Company
University of Pittsburgh-Stephen Foster Memorial and Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh-Heinz Memorial Chapel (The chapel was a gift of German-American Henry John Heinz, founder of the H.J. Heinz Company, who wanted to honor his mother, Anna Margaretta Heinz, with a building at the university. Upon his death in 1919, Heinz’s three surviving children (Howard, Irene, and Clifford) added to his bequest in order to memorialize their grandmother and honor their father. Their choice of a chapel for a memorial was guided by the concepts of education and religion which Anna Margaretta Heinz imbued in her children.)
One of Pittsburgh's most famous sons.
Forbes Avenue, the main artery through Pittsburgh's Oakland District. (Oakland is the academic and healthcare center of Pittsburgh, one of the city's major cultural centers, and is Pennsylvania's third largest "Downtown". Only Center City Philadelphia and Downtown Pittsburgh can claim more economic and social activity than Oakland.[1] The neighborhood is urban and diverse and is home to several universities, museums, and hospitals, as well as an abundance of shopping, restaurants, and students. Oakland is home to the Schenley Farms National Historic District which encompasses two city designated historic districts: the mostly residential Schenley Farms Historic District and the predominantly institutional Oakland Civic Center Historic District.)
University of Pittsburgh-Heinz Memorial Chapel
University of Pittsburgh Campus
University of Pittsburgh-Catherdral of Learning
Georgia and Tom in front of Pitt's signature building
The Pitt Panther
Interior-Cathedral of Learning
The Cathedral of Learning
The Irish Room, one of 29 Nationality Rooms in Pitt's main building. (The Nationality Rooms are a collection of 29 classrooms in the University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning depicting and donated by the ethnic groups that helped build the city of Pittsburgh. The rooms are designated as a Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation historical landmark and are located on the 1st and 3rd floors of the Cathedral of Learning, itself a national historic landmark,[4][5] on the University of Pittsburgh's main campus in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Although of museum caliber, twenty-seven of the 29 rooms are in almost constant use as functional classrooms and utilized daily by University of Pittsburgh faculty and students, while the other two (the Early American and Syrian-Lebanon) are display rooms which can be explored only via guided tour. The Nationality Rooms also serve in a vigorous program of intercultural involvement and exchange in which the original organizing committees for the individual rooms remain as participants and include)
University of Pittsburgh Campus
University of Pittsburgh-Heinz Memorial Chapel
University of Pittsburgh-Heinz Memorial Chapel
University of Pittsburgh Campus
University of Pittsburgh-Heinz Memorial Chapel
Pitt Campus
View from the 37th floor of Pitt's Cathedral of Learning
View from the 37th floor of Pitt's Cathedral of Learning
The Soldiers' and Sailors Memorial from the 37th floor of Pitt's Cathedral of Learning
View from the 37th floor of Pitt's Cathedral of Learning
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View from the 37th floor of Pitt's Cathedral of Learning
View from the 37th floor of Pitt's Cathedral of Learning
Carnegie Mellon University from Pitt's Cathedral of Learning
A quiet alcove high above Oakland
Carnegie Mellon and Schenley Park
Autumn colors frame Schenley Drive, Oakland
Oakland shimmering in a potpourri of autumnal hues
Carnegie Mellon University- Hamerschlag Hall (Named for Arthur Arton Hamerschlag (November 25, 1872 – July 20, 1927) who was an Austria-born American electrical and mechanical engineer who served as the first President of Carnegie Mellon University.)

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