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Pittsburgh 1961
Submitted by notycoon22 on Sat, 06/09/2007 - 4:27pm.
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Pittsburgh in 1961 from the bluffs on the west bank of the Ohio. Certainly didn't look like this at the turn of the last century or this.
Photo: Don Hall, Sr.
Don Hall
Yreka CA
Monongahela River
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Tue, 05/20/2008 - 3:59pm.
It is the Monongahela, above the point, and the Smithfield Street Bridge.
Another view
Submitted by notycoon22 on Sun, 06/17/2007 - 12:19am.
I have another view looking further left which I will try and dig out and scan. I must be very backwards as to the layout of the rivers.
Don Hall
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pittsburgh 1961
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Wed, 06/13/2007 - 3:43am.
nice to see the city-less polluted
[The air in Pittsburgh and all the big Eastern industrial cities is a lot cleaner now than it was in 1961. - Dave]
Station Square?
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Tue, 06/12/2007 - 10:24am.
Looks like Station Square in the lower left, which would put the vantage point on the south bank of the Monongahela River. Maybe this was taken from Mt. Washington?
Vantage point, Pittsburgh 1961
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Sun, 06/10/2007 - 11:44pm.
Actually, I think the view is from the bluff above the south bank of the Monongahela. You are looking toward the 'point' where the Monongahela joins the Allegheny to form the Ohio, just beyond the left edge of this picture.
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