I went to Pitt and was there in 1975 when this photo was taken.
Category: Pittsburgh
Instagream post on stereographs of Pittsburgh
Aerial view of the University of Pittsburgh in the 1960s and1970s
I went there from 1971-1975
Photos of the contruction of the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh
Cathedral of Learning Progress 10/4/27
Cathedral of Learning Construction 7/17/28
Cathedral of Learning Construction 2/13/29
Cathedral of Learning in Progress 4/12/29
Cathedral of Learning Construction 7/31/29
Cathedral of Learning Under Construction 6/12/30
9.613 cathedral Historic Pittsburgh hosted by the University of Pittsburgh Library System
searches are slow
After the 1971 World Series
I was a freshman at the University of Pittsburgh when the Pirates won the 1971 World Series in October 1971. The game was on a Sunday afternoon. I lived on the 13th floor of a high-rise dorm which looked out over Forbes Avenue, a major Pittsburgh street. One of the guys had a tape recorder – the old kind about the size of a book with small reels – and hung it out the window. He could pick up the sounds from the packed street below. It was full of cars celebrating the big win. We heard that the Original Hot Dog Shop, the main place to get carry out beer nearby, ran out of beer. That’s hard to believe.
Tweet and video on the Westinghouse sign in Pittsburgh
A home run ball hit into the Allegheny River was retrieved
Two former Pittsburgh movie theaters
I remember the Strand movie theater in Pittsburgh – see the third picture in the Instagram post below. I saw The Godfather and several American Film Theatre movies there. I went to the University of Pittsburgh from 1971-1975. It’s right up the street from the theater.
I also remember the Kings Court theater further up Forbes Avenue even closer to Pitt. A friend sent me a picture a few years ago – it was a T- Mobile cell phone store then.
Google Maps photo of the current building where the Strand was
Google Maps photo of the current building where the Kings Court was
The rise and fall of the waterbed
This reminded me of them. There was a waterbed store in Pittsburgh in the early 1970s called Wet Dream Waterbeds. They had to change it to Dream Waterbeds.
Forbes Field photos on Twitter
I never saw a game at Forbes Field. It was located near my University of Pittsburgh dormitory and we watched it being torn down when I was a freshman. It’s the site of the Pitt Law School now. They kept part of the outfield wall where Bill Mazeroski’s home run went out to win game 7 in the 1960 World Series.
When I was a freshman in 1971, Forbes Field was no longer used but hadn’t been torn down yet.
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