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Post by ursus on Feb 1, 2017 14:14:40 GMT -5
"Chances are, if you are a Pittsburgher visiting in another city, the first person you talk to will say, 'So you're from the smoky city.' " ("Highway Traveler", February 1949). One of the benefits of the demise of the steel industry in the U.S. and Pittsburgh in particular was the improvement in air quality there but it left the steel mills shuttered and the kind of "tombstone"-like monuments to decay Donald Trump referred to in some of his speeches. I wonder how he did there, considering the state of Pennsylvania went for him? I'm sure the area around Philly went for Hillary but more rural areas must've voted Republican. Of course Pittsburgh isn't rural - but I'd imagine it's a far cry from Philadelphia too. Allegheny County which includes Pittsburgh went for Clinton 363,017 to 257,488. www.nytimes.com/elections/results/pennsylvania-president-clinton-trump
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Post by jamesn on Feb 1, 2017 16:47:48 GMT -5
One of the benefits of the demise of the steel industry in the U.S. and Pittsburgh in particular was the improvement in air quality there but it left the steel mills shuttered and the kind of "tombstone"-like monuments to decay Donald Trump referred to in some of his speeches. I wonder how he did there, considering the state of Pennsylvania went for him? I'm sure the area around Philly went for Hillary but more rural areas must've voted Republican. Of course Pittsburgh isn't rural - but I'd imagine it's a far cry from Philadelphia too. Allegheny County which includes Pittsburgh went for Clinton 363,017 to 257,488. www.nytimes.com/elections/results/pennsylvania-president-clinton-trump My experience traveling around the U.S. - largely following Jackie, at least for the past five or six years! - has been that even in flaming liberal states like New York, Calif., Minnesota, Illinois, and Massachusetts once you get out of the cesspool cities which I try my best to avoid, people in the rest of the states are nice, reasonable citizens.
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Post by juxtaposer on Feb 1, 2017 18:27:51 GMT -5
I have a little story to tell about those Pittsburgh quotes I posted. I didn't google them up. I do a lot of research into early colonial Australian history and every so often come across something with links to America, including citations to Mitford M. Mathews' "A Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles". I came to think I could do with a copy of that, so I went online and found one for sale for a mere 17 Aussie dollars. I thought, for that price it must only be a slim a volume. Then I got a shock when I found that the postage price was double that, at which I thought, yet again, that's how they conceal the true cost of the item. Nevertheless, I went through with the purchase. When it arrived in a large box I found why the postage was so much - it is a four inch thick one volume version with nearly 2,000 pages of fine print, and is now one of the heaviest books I own. Then, to my surprise, I noted that it is a library book, still with the original shelf call numbers stuck on the spine, a digital bar code inside and ink stamped Gloucester County College Library Sewell New Jersey 08080. I realised that this very book had sat on a library shelf probably for decades (it's a 1966 impression of the 1951 first edition) but that in the process of many major libraries going digital it has been disposed of, which I think a pity. I imagine all the scholars in the New Jersey collage who I now have something in common with, who have flicked through this book's pages over the years, and here it is sitting on a shelf in a little old weatherboard cottage on the other side of the world.
As a footnote to that: I looked up "yinz" and it is not in it, but "you-uns" is, so "yinz" might be a fairly recent form. In fact, "youns" is the earliest form, dating back to at least 1810 (M. Dwight, "Journey to Ohio"). Mathews suspects it is not of American origin, citing its reference in Joseph Wright's "The English Dialect Dictionary", 1898-1904 (1905 supplement). Now, I wouldn't mind a copy of that, either...
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Post by ursus on Feb 1, 2017 22:24:00 GMT -5
My experience traveling around the U.S. - largely following Jackie, at least for the past five or six years! - has been that even in flaming liberal states like New York, Calif., Minnesota, Illinois, and Massachusetts once you get out of the cesspool cities which I try my best to avoid, people in the rest of the states are nice, reasonable citizens. I will not get into a political discussion here. Repeat, I will not get into a political discussion here.
Good, it's out of my system.
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Post by jamesn on Feb 2, 2017 14:12:40 GMT -5
As for the now-derilect steel mills in the Pittsburgh vicinity, one shuttered one is in the suburb of Braddock and actually sits on the site of the terrible British defeat of 1755 at the hands of the French and their Indian allies. The only time I ever visited Pittsburgh, back in the 1990's, I was traveling with my friend Mike ( colmikey ) who absolutely refused to go to Braddock because of its unsavory reputation. We confined ourselves to the area of the Forks of the Ohio - the Fort Pitt restoration and museum and site of Fort Duquesne - and then skipped over Pittsburgh to the site of the 1763 battle with Pontiac's Indians to the east of the city. Since then, I've seen photos of a now-derelict Braddock and unmarked sites of some features of the battle outside the closed steel mill grounds. It's a shame things like this have largely been lost to time.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2017 14:55:27 GMT -5
James Carville once described PA as Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, with Alabama in between.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2017 21:19:52 GMT -5
I always wondered why people made a big deal about Jackie being from Pittsburgh. Always seemed to me just to be normal Middle America. But I'm learning that there is much that is unique about it. They seem to have a good sense of humor about themselves. Hoping I can make the trip there in March. Fingers crossed. If I go, I'll try to ride the Duquesne Incline. Ok, I rode this thing and it was fun. Quite a view. I did that 51-cent into a penny thing that Pittsburgh Dad wouldn't let his kids do. There are two machines with slots that take two quarters and a penny. You select what design you want, push the coins in, then turn this manual crank until the penny comes out of the tray at the bottom. It comes out oblong and flattened, like the old penny on a railroad track thing. Stamped on one side is the picture you have selected. Edit: I went to Giant Eagle, looking for Pittsburgh Dad hot sauce. None to be found.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2017 13:06:01 GMT -5
Here's the views from the top of the incline. From a 2013 trip. I never lived in Pittsburgh but visited there and attended Pirates games. Here is another view from the top of the incline, from a 2010 AGT video: Don
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Post by yellowstone2014 on Mar 13, 2017 17:49:55 GMT -5
Pittsburgh, December 2006. Me and my son. We had a one week vacation, just to see two consecutive Steelers games. I guess it was a very rare constellation, because there were two home games in a row. Sunday against Tampabay Buccaneers and Thursday against Cleveland Browns. There are some Travel Agencies here in Europe, they organize roundtrips to US Sport Events, like NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB games. At this time I couldn't imagine, that a couple of years later I had another relation to Pittsburgh except the Steelers.
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Post by chuck on Mar 16, 2017 6:01:44 GMT -5
Since this website is unusually quiet at the moment, this may be a good time to share the following picture of downtown Pittsburgh in the 1940's. I spent my first two decades growing up in the "smokey city." The double entendre question often asked amusingly of Pittsburghers when visiting other towns was, “You came clean from Pittsburgh?” - treating "clean" as both an adverb and an adjective. Click on the image to enlarge and note the time.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2017 22:34:58 GMT -5
LOL! After all the nice, OTT fan stuff I've posted about Jackie, her music and her family, I make "Diehard Fan", post#500, with Pittsburgh Dad. Jackie should be in a Pittsburgh Dad video. Pittsburgh Dad could berate his kids, "Yinz should listen to this girl's music instead that garbage yinz listen to".
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Post by Beachguy on May 6, 2017 13:50:26 GMT -5
Stuff out of Pittsburgh >>>Syphiles Infections still high in the County , Worst song rated >>Paul Anka "" you're having my baby "" , yikes !!! Most controversial Paul McCartney ""silly love songs "" many think he is lest liked of the four guys Potato Patch fries # 1 food at the great Kenny Wood Park Cosby the Penguin to return to the ice Local high school shows >> "" little show of horrors " & "" Monty Python's Spamalot "" Local girl of 11 overdoses on heroin . yikes This city alone has 8 over doses a day of heroin ?? do you worry bout climate warming
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