PITTSBURGH trip
Are you ready for it?
...McKeesport!
This bridge was built using steel from the old Wabash Bridge in Pittsburgh.
The widening of Jerome Street was actually a gentrification project, as many good houses were demolished. I hope McKeesport has seen the last of gentrification.
Aug. 12-13 2024
PART 2
Come on, McKeesport, where are you? This is northwest on Curry Hollow Road in Dravosburg, going under a rail bridge.
Northeast on Maple. The road goes under the W.D. Mansfield Memorial Bridge. The stop sign uses a font that nobody should ever, ever use on a traffic sign. The punishment should involve being forced to watch an endless reel of The View from 2021.
Finally getting on the Mansfield Bridge! The span opened in 1951 and crosses the Monongahela River to...
Northeast on West 5th in McKeesport. But Tube City hasn't reached its stride yet, so hang on to your face!
West 5th is looking a little more McKeeish here. But the best is yet to gum!
We cross another bridge ahead.
The Jerome Street Bridge opened in 1938 and crosses the Youghiogheny River. Jerome Street itself became Lysle Boulevard. Before the 1930s, it was just an alley. The city had renamed Jerome for Mayor George Lysle while he was in office, but the road's upgrade was a federally funded project, and the feds said the city couldn't name the street for a sitting politician unless it wanted to give back the money for the project. Although Lysle was known as a fierce red-baiter, he opposed a questionable effort to make Pittsburgh a consolidated city-county.
McKeesport really looks like a central city in its own right.
Market at 5th.
West on 6th. It runs to Mulberry Street, as in the banned book And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street. MarketWatch's response to the ban of this Dr. Seuss classic was laughable, saying it wasn't really banned because you might be able to find a used copy on Amazon for an inflated price.
West on 7th.
South on Market.
Market at 9th.
East on 9th.
Ninth at Tube Works Alley.
South on Locust.
South on Jenny Lind.
West on Spring.
Jenny Lind approaches Whigham.
West on Whigham. It's a bit disguised from the Google Street View photo. Although they had paved over the brick surface, a few lots had gone vacant.
Jenny Lind at 11th.
West on 11th. It's getting good now, isn't it?
Jenny Lind at 12th.
West on 12th. These photos can't do justice to the greatness of McKeesport. But there's more to come!