Macy's (successor to Kaufmann's)sponsors the annual Christmas parade on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The grandstand is always set up across from the store in front of the low-slung building with the red banner. It's a great holiday tradition.

Butterick Patterns were my favorite back when I could see well enough to sew. Their fashions were just a "cut above" the other pattern companies. And those purses in the store window on the left can still be seen at Coach or Macy's

Kaufmanns department store was but one of the many places we planned on going to - had to catch the bus in Bridgeville, PA and until the parkway was finished the trip was long in time but well worth the time and distance. Especially during Christmas holidays as Kaufmanns always had wonderful animated windows full of Christmas scenes.

The Kaufmann's Clock was Pittsburgh's equivalent of New York's Biltmore one, a widely-agreed-upon meeting place in the center of the metropolis. Kaufmann's itself was an institution, the store that prided itself on having everything-- even a suit big enough to fit our heftiest president, William Howard Taft, in town for a visit. His picture hung in the lobby for many years as an unauthorized endorsement. Control of the store passed from the founding brothers to Edgar "E.J." Kaufmann, who commissioned (and expertly promoted) two of the 20th Century's greatest modernist buildings, Wright's Fallingwater in Bear Run, and Neutra's Desert House in Palm Springs-- the latter of which, it would seem, Wright never forgave him for.

How I would love to have a little time for window shopping on this street.

The owner of Kaufmann's, Edgar J. Kaufmann, hired Frank Lloyd Wright to build a country home, the now famous house known as Fallingwater, in the Laurel Highlands about 90 miles from Pittsburgh.

Below is the same view from July of 2011.

Does Pittsburgh not give San Fran a run for their money as hilliest US city?
This town has got some serious grades.
Imagine traversing up these sidewalks on a icy January morning?