Popular Post Prophet Zacharia Posted May 26, 2022 Popular Post Share #1 Posted May 26, 2022 Went to dinner last night to celebrate my FIL’s 80th birthday. Nice evening for it. Our view from the restaurant. Winds were from the East. 5 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Prophet Zacharia Posted May 26, 2022 Author Popular Post Share #2 Posted May 26, 2022 Went to dinner last night to celebrate my FIL’s 80th birthday. Nice evening for it. Our view from the restaurant. Winds were from the East. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted May 26, 2022 Share #3 Posted May 26, 2022 57 minutes ago, Prophet Zacharia said: Went to dinner last night to celebrate my FIL’s 80th birthday. Nice evening for it. Our view from the restaurant. Winds were from the East. It always amazed me to see people riding bicycles downtown. When we did it on Petite’s Big Adventure it really wasn’t that bad but we only had to ride from Point park to the hot metal bridge. Nice view, what was the restaurant? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentonMakes Posted May 26, 2022 Share #4 Posted May 26, 2022 I love that view. Really enjoyed the time I spent in that town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted May 26, 2022 Author Share #5 Posted May 26, 2022 If you look to right of the fountain, in the grassy area that makes up Point State park, you can see some white bricks in the grass. They delineate the site of the former French Fort Duquesne. Later, the British captured the site in 1757 and named it Fort Pitt. The restaurant we ate at is atop Mount Washington, as George Washington had surveyed the area from that location while he was working as a surveyor in the early 1750’s. The Governor of Virginia had hired him to research the possibility of a canal between the Ohio and Potomac rivers. This view of the fort would have been from the opposite river bank of my photo. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted May 26, 2022 Author Share #6 Posted May 26, 2022 17 minutes ago, Longjohn said: what was the restaurant? LeMont. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted May 26, 2022 Author Share #7 Posted May 26, 2022 14 minutes ago, TrentonMakes said: I love that view. Really enjoyed the time I spent in that town. I really like it. Been here since 1993. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted May 26, 2022 Share #8 Posted May 26, 2022 very nice, I like views like that 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted May 26, 2022 Share #9 Posted May 26, 2022 The last time I spent time there was before I moved to Michigan. I think the last time was 1978. In the 70's Pittsburgh was not a nice place to be. They are a great example of urban renewal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsnip Totin Jack ★ Posted May 26, 2022 Share #10 Posted May 26, 2022 Nice view. Was the food good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted May 26, 2022 Share #11 Posted May 26, 2022 4 minutes ago, Kzoo said: The last time I spent time there was before I moved to Michigan. I think the last time was 1978. In the 70's Pittsburgh was not a nice place to be. They are a great example of urban renewal. Liberty Avenue was interesting. I don’t know how they cleaned that up without using a wrecking ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted May 26, 2022 Share #12 Posted May 26, 2022 26 minutes ago, Longjohn said: Liberty Avenue was interesting. I don’t know how they cleaned that up without using a wrecking ball. I remember driving (and parking!!) for Pirate games in the early 70's at 3 Rivers. Man that could be scary for a couple of 17 yo country boys. I had a good friend that had a neighbor that was a salesman for US Steel. He had pretty much unlimited access to tickets. We went almost every week. We got 4 tickets and we sold 2 out front when we got there - $4.00 a piece for box seats on the first base side. My friend kept $4 for gas (I think it cost $2) and we used the other $4 for food. Good times for free 1972... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted May 26, 2022 Author Share #13 Posted May 26, 2022 1 hour ago, Old No. 7 said: Nice view. Was the food good? It was ok. Personally I think the place survives more on past reputation (and the view) than any riveting menu items, and that it’s hay day was probably in the 1980’s-1990’s. Described as “opulent”, but I’d say a bit garish. My Father-in-law’s ex-wife picked the place, so we went along with it. I’d have rather gone across the street to Monterey Bay for the fish. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted May 26, 2022 Author Share #14 Posted May 26, 2022 1 hour ago, Kzoo said: The last time I spent time there was before I moved to Michigan. I think the last time was 1978. In the 70's Pittsburgh was not a nice place to be. They are a great example of urban renewal. First time I visited was summer of 1990. Steel mills were already gone from the city. If you didn’t know the history you’d have no idea. Even the Homestead works have since been transformed and the space is now a beautiful river front shopping complex. I work near a Coke production plant and have gone past the Braddock Steel Mill so there are hints of the past still to be found, but the city itself is 1000 times made over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted May 26, 2022 Author Share #15 Posted May 26, 2022 Whoops. Didn’t mean to have two parallel posts going! I’ll close this and continue the one with more responses! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted May 26, 2022 Author Share #16 Posted May 26, 2022 From my unintended other thread on the same topic: If you look to right of the fountain, in the grassy area that makes up Point State park, you can see some white bricks in the grass. They delineate the site of the former French Fort Duquesne. Later, the British captured the site in 1757 and named it Fort Pitt. The restaurant we ate at is atop Mount Washington, as George Washington had surveyed the area from that location while he was working as a surveyor in the early 1750’s. The Governor of Virginia had hired him to research the possibility of a canal between the Ohio and Potomac rivers. This view of the fort would have been from the opposite river bank of my photo. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Square Wheels Posted May 26, 2022 Solution Share #17 Posted May 26, 2022 3 hours ago, Prophet Zacharia said: Whoops. Didn’t mean to have two parallel posts going! I’ll close this and continue the one with more responses! Merged 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted May 26, 2022 Share #18 Posted May 26, 2022 5 hours ago, Prophet Zacharia said: work near a Coke production plant I thought they replaced that coke plant with a meth lab? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted May 26, 2022 Author Share #19 Posted May 26, 2022 26 minutes ago, Longjohn said: I thought they replaced that coke plant with a meth lab? The meth seems to be further to the north. The Mon Valley is still Steel, alcohol and opiates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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