To the City of Bridges and Back - Chapter 3: The Sun Finally Shines on The Steel City
I woke up, packed, and then said goodbye to my friends in the parking lot of a Holiday Inn Express on a bright Sunday morning.
To the City of Bridges and Back - Chapter 2: Rain, Art, and Soccer in Pittsburgh
I remembered this city fondly from my last trip here in 2010, and there was still plenty I wanted to see seven years later—so much so that I had taken extra time off my day job to spend the day wandering before all of my friends arrived.
Fading Advertisements: Pittsburgh
The city of Pittsburgh has several similarities to that of Cincinnati, both hailing from early American fortifications along Midwestern riverbanks. On top of the similar climates, economies, population size, hills, etc. - their downtowns are both rich with fading advertisements. While I’m sure there’s many more, here’s a few that I came across while recently spending a weekend there.
Steel City Discovery
Like Cincinnati's cut-in-the-hill view on North 75 in Kentucky, Pittsburgh features a dramatic entrance. Cars crowd through suburban countryside and into the Fort Pitt Tunnel (seen above) into a mess of traffic and yellow light before emerging into a striking view of the Pittsburgh skyline.