Ohio Digestif
Friday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
This is a short one, filed under ‘Odds and Ends.’ After taking a short walk up the Ohio River and turning around at the Western Penitentiary campus, here in Pittsburgh, I was quick stepping it back to the car.
The quick steps thing was about getting my heart rate up to a certain level and maintaining that speed for an interval. Cardiology, amirite?
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Along the way, I grabbed a few opportune shots, including one of what seems like an abandoned concrete factory on Brunot’s Island.
Man, if I ever find a way onto that landform, I’m heading straight for this spot.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
I love a rusty sign, especially one which hosts a message from an earlier era’s governmental bureaucracy, or some long shuttered business, admonishing or threatening arrest for trespass. I always found this sort of thing to be quite useful from a historical POV, along Newtown Creek and the East River.
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That was an asphalt plant (think Green Asphalt on Newtown Creek), its actually in McKees Rocks, on the south shore of the river the juts north after Brunot Island. The site was also the location of a well-known Native American burial mound that was subsequently destroyed by the rock quarrying at the point.
There IS another disused concrete plant further back in the channel behind Brunot Island, near the mouth of Chartiers Creek, that was operated by Frank Bryan.
Jon H
January 19, 2024 at 2:41 pm