45-50 years ago, my then wife got into a graduate program at Carnegie Mellon, I was working in the D.C. area. She came home some weekends, I drove to Pittsburgh some weekends. So, I did spend quite a bit of time there over several years. But I must say I never really payed attention to the city itself, it was just another urban area. I was very pleased to see the city now through Rick’s eyes. I need to go back through old slides and see if I even did any photography there. Stan
Sent from my iPad > On May 15, 2024, at 11:10 AM, Alan C <c...@lantic.net> wrote: > > What a city! I have never seen anything remotely like that. > > Alan C > >> On 14-May-24 04:32 AM, Rick Womer wrote: >> We took a short trip to Pittsburgh last month, and were able to enjoy this >> pleasant city in beautiful weather. >> >> The city is where the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers join to form the Ohio >> River, which flows west to the Mississippi River. My family had driven >> through Pittsburgh when I was a child, and I remember smoke and steel mills. >> Now only one steel mill remains, the smoke is gone, and the city is >> prosperous. >> >> The views are excellent from Mount Washington, an escarpment south of the >> downtown area, served by two pairs of antique funicular rail cars (we went >> up and down the Duquesne Incline; the other (Monangahela Incline, about a >> mile away) was closed. >> >> The visible bridges are among 446 in Pittsburgh, the most of any city in the >> world (and 3x the number in Venice). >> >> The bronze figure on the bench, “Sidewalk Judge,” is by Seward Johnson, an >> heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune and an artist. >> >> https://rickwomer.smugmug.com/2024/April-2024/Pittsburgh-Apr-24 >> >> Comments and critiques eagerly anticipated. >> >> Rick >> >> >> >> >> -- >> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
