Pittsburgh Trip: August 7, 2013: A Day with Dad, South Side and Homestead
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15th Street in South Side
Polish church where dad was baptized, 15th Street
Same church
Polish elementary school were Grandpa went
Close up
View down 15th Street
...with a close up of the church from the top of the street
Daring dad to climb the hill with me
Beginning the ascent
Crossing over the overpass-- go Dad! Just one more flight to go!
At the top, a contractor gave us a tour of the church they turned into pricey condos overlooking the South Side.
The view from the condo roofs
Back down to 15th Street.
That's not his car. That's a funeral chauffeur who left his bag inside the church
earlier that morning
and was waiting for someone to let him in.
He was disappointed that we were not the people with the keys.
Dad, waxing nostalgic
Pump house at the site of the Homestead Steel Strike, 1892
Educational video for my West Coast and New Mexico friends:
I learned that the Pinkertons actually sympathized with the workers,
and didn't fully realize they had been sent to do Frick's dirty work.
But it was too late-- the women of Homestead beat them up.
Couldn't mess with the women of Steeler Nation then any more than now, it seems!
Close up of pump house
The Carrie furnace across the river. Tours on Fridays only--next visit!
The Carrie furnace across the river, the more gloomy color scheme
Monongahela River
Carrie furnace in the distance
Experimenting again with the gloomy color scheme
Most appropriate photo of Dad EVER!
--except the one of him eating s'mores with his grandson, circa 2010
Dad took this one of me. No label on that odd piece of steel making equipment.
Don't know what it is.
just back back from PGH, I saw the Joan of Arc statue in St. Paul's. I was wondering what the latin text in the mosaic meant???
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