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It is the Monongahela, above the point, and the Smithfield Street Bridge.
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
Yreka, CA
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]
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?
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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