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Connections |
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Sponsors PNC
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1:40
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Pittsburgh Series
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SP01
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2:45
Sunrise
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Italian family winemaking tradition
People buy grapes at the Strip's wholesale distributors
to keep alive the family tradition of winemaking |
Creating Community: Family traditions
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SP02
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5:12
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Family restaurants in the Strip District
Days begin early in the Strip where trucks make deliveries in the early
morning darkness. DeLuca's and JoJo's Restaurants have become favorite
early morning eateries.
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Creating Community: family business
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SP03
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10:34
Long shot panning from Downtown along the river
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The Strip District
The Strip District runs from Downtown to Lawrenceville, though 16th to 23rd Streets are the shopping district, full of thriving
retail shops that began evolving from the mid-1970s from wholesale businesses.
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Western PA History
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SP04
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12:20
Men in green jacket unloading white van
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Italian speciality stores
Sidewalk sales are everyday at the Strip.
Pennsylvania Macaroni Company and Sunseri Brothers, mainly a wholesale
distributors, both have retail stores that sell produce, pasta, breads,
cheeses, and Italian specialties.
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Creating Community: business
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SP05
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23:45
B&W of Peoples' Baths
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Industry in the Strip
In the Smoky City days the Strip was a place of heavy manufacturing:
munitions, steel, cork; aluminum, and machines.
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Western PA History: Science and Industry
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SP06
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29:39
Looking down Liberty Ave.
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Science and technology in the Strip
Redzone on Liberty manufactures robots to cleanup hazardous zone in
a building where Westinghouse Airbrake started.
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Western
PA History: Science and technology, Westinghouse |
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SP07
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33:45
Enrico Biscotti sign
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Traditional foodways in the Strip District
The Enrico Biscotti Company makes about 21 flavors of biscotti on the
premises.
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Creating Community: foodways
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SP08
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36:37
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Sidewalk grill along Penn Ave. serves BBQ chicken, pork, lamb, ribs;
hot sausage sandwiches.
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SP09
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38:05
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Peanuts roast outside Prestogeorge where inside salads, soups, sandwiches
are for sale. Their speciality is hand-roasted coffee.
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SP10
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41:26
Mike Fineberg sign
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Mike Feinberg's Party Store
Mike Feinberg's Party Store sells novelties, general merchandise and
sports-related items.
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Wholesale and retail Sales
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SP11
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44:58
Red brick building
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Crafts from the USA and Africa
Across Smallman Street from each other are the Society for Contemporary
Crafts, a gallery and showroom for today's American craftspeople and
an African gallery with crafts from Nigeria.
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The Arts
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SP12
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47:23
Woman in babushka on street
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Ethnic food preparation
Trailer in 1800 block of Penn sells "Asian fast food" such as egg rolls,
shishkebab, etc.
Labad's Syrian Grocery and Café on Penn Avenue specializes in
Mid-Eastern foods.
Parma sausage on Penn Avenue is a 4th generation business
making sausage, salamis, of all kinds.
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Creating Community: foodways
Wholesale, retail and prepared food
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SP13
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55:54
Benkowitz sign
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Fish from Benkowitz and Wholey's
Two seafood companies--Nordic Fisheries and Wholeys--supply most of
the area's restaurants with seafood and sell fish sandwiches and an
amazing variety of fresh seafood at their retail stores.
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SP14
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60:00
Jim Krenn in black leather jacket
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The Strip District as residential community
People raised in Strip remember the days when it included a residential
area. An old1920s-era pharmacy that has been closed
for 20 years remains intact inside.
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Western PA History
Creating Community: Neighborhoods and churches
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SP15
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106:26
B&W family portraits
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St. Patrick's/St. Stanislas Church
St Patrick's-St Stanislau parishes merged to meet at St Stanislaus
Kostka at the corner of Smallman and 21st where they keep
the original traditions of the Slovak, the Irish and the Polish.
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Creating Community: churches
Bridges and Buildings
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SP16
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108:47
Red brick terminal building
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Transporting goods: Break-bulk district
The Produce Terminal is active at night when its fresh fruit and vegetables
are bought by restaurateurs and people in all aspects of the food business.
Railroad cars used to bring in the produce at Smallman Street.
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Rivers and Valleys:
transportation
Creating Community: business
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SP17
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115:00
Man in blue t-shirt at counter
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Adaptive reuse in the Strip (HSWP)
The Strip is successfully transforming its past into a secure future.
Architect Jimi Lucas is remodeling the Hermanowski Merchandise store,
which has been selling candy and tobacco products for over 30 years.
The Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania's John Heinz Regional
History Center, housed in the old Chatauqua Ice Company Building is
researching some of the older buildings nearby. The Italian Oven Building
was an old Presbyterian church, possibly the oldest in Pittsburgh. The
Standard Underground Cable building running the length of the block
from 16th to 17th streets still has its old industrial
sash windows intact.
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Bridges and Buildings:
reuse
Creating Community: retail
business
Bridges and Buildings:
reuse
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SP18
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119:15
122:00
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Night life in the Strip
After the wholesalers and retailers close up shop for the day, the
entertainers open for business. Metropol, Rosebud, Donzi's, Dizzi's
Jazz Club have found the industrial buildings perfect as dance clubs.
Primantis' Restaurant is where Pittsburghers go for a late night sandwich
and the truckers go for an early morning bite.
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Having Fun: Night entertainment
Creating Community
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124:57
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Close
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The End
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