On we sweep
Thursday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
As mentioned yesterday, older office and commercial buildings in Pittsburgh which were built before Willis Carrier invented what modernity calls ‘air conditioning’ (at a lithograph company at Newtown Creek back in Brooklyn, I would mention) sport an abundance of windows. Pittsburgh has a famously humid climate, sited as it is at the delta formed by the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers (whose combined waters then become the Ohio River), and back in the old days your only comfort during the ‘hot’ could be found in cross ventilation.
This section of Downtown seems to be where the courts and governmental offices are found.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
The funny thing about this particular tourist bus ride is that over the last 8 or 9 months, I’ve walked many of the individual legs of this route while exploring. Instinct is as important to me as the camera, and I’ll often say to myself “that’s important” when encountering a thing or a place and crack out a shot without really knowing what I’m looking at. Later on, I’ll find out that a building was owned by a supervillain like Henry Clay Frick, as in the shot above.
The tour bus continued on…
– photo by Mitch Waxman
The double decker bus got onto one of the highways found on the south side of Pittsburgh’s ‘golden triangle,’ and we were soon passing by the Birmingham Bridge which spans the Monongahela River. Another pathway I’ve scuttled down is found directly below this spot, the Eliza Furnace Trail, which has become one of my favorites for a longish walk.
Back tomorrow with more.
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Thanks for making me look up Henry Clay Frick’s history. Ugh.
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September 29, 2023 at 9:37 pm