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Wylie Avenue at Washington Street, looking towards town
November 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Shingiss Street, 1957
November 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Bedford Avenue, 1971
November 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
A 1956 account of sin dens giving way to progress in Lower Hill 🧐
November 28, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Frank Bruno’s Barber Shop, 717 Wylie Avenue, 1955. Campaign posters for John E. McGrady for County Commissioner and Edward C. Boyle for District Attorney. Boyle defeated D.A. James F. Malone by just 5400 votes.
November 28, 2025 at 5:28 AM
3rd Ward Republican Headquarters, 1229 Wylie Avenue, 1955
November 28, 2025 at 5:22 AM
3rd Ward Democratic Headquarters, 812 Wylie Avenue, 1955
November 28, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Kaufmann’s Christmas windows, 1950 🎄
November 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Coverage of Pittsburgh's sesquicentennial (150th anniversary) celebration in 1908
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
JJ Book Shop & Ice Cream Bar, Wylie Avenue and Logan Street, 1955
November 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Fifth Avenue and Fernando Street, 1955 (now Chatham Center)
November 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Fifth Avenue and Fernando Street, now Chatham Center, 1955
November 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
KDKA-TV billboard, 700 block of Webster Avenue, 1958
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Chief’s Tavern, Wylie Avenue and Logan Street, 1955
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Hartzell Memorial Fountain - For Man, Beast and Bird, Market Square.
November 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Diamond Street (Forbes) and Smithfield
November 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
November 27, 2025 at 7:53 AM
27 Nov 1958, sixty-seven years ago today: Pittsburgh kicked off its year-long bicentennial celebration of the founding of Fort Pitt, which took place on this date in 1758.
November 27, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The Duquesne Pilsner sign (left center) was long a landmark at the corner of Bigelow Boulevard and Sixth Avenue just above Grant Street in downtown Pittsburgh. Today, this site is the location of the U.S. Steel Tower.
November 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Donahoe's Fifth Avenue Brand Turkeys, "the most delicious turkey you ever ate!" Thanksgiving 1935 (ad from Post Gazette, 26 Nov 1935)
November 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Ad for Kaufmann’s Christmas windows on this date in 1958 🌲🎅🏻
November 26, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The big snow of Thanksgiving 1950

(L) Abandoned vehicles on Webster Avenue in the Hill; (R) Residents of 1300 block of Seitz Street on the Bluff shoveling snow
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM