OLD PITTSBURGH PHOTOGRAPHS 1890s-1930s 

Me too, Keith! Pittsburgh is beautiful now, all cleaned up and a mix of modern along side historic buildings. I never want to live anywhere else.

My Grandmother was born in 1922. She said that you never wore White downtown, or you would come home wearing Gray.

My mother was born in 1929 and grew up in Hazelwood and said ladies there took down and washed their curtains twice a day because of all the soot from the steel mills. That was long before pollution regulations were put into effect.

@@KenPotter That was before my time. My mother told me about it. My family lived through it. As a matter of fact my ancestors came to Pittsburgh in from 1840 to 1870. Pittsburgh was a great place to work. Most of my family live past the "life time expectancy".

I heard that from my mother. It wasn't that bad in the 50's. The thing that improved Pittsburgh air was switching from home coal heating to natural gas. As a matter of fact the first natural gas wells were drilled outside my uncle farm. In the 50's, most homes were heated by natural gas. My dad worked in the Steel Mill. As we'd drive by the smoke stacks of the steel mill. My dad would say, "see that smoke, that puts food on our table. In the 80's, all the steel mills disappeared with the smoke, and Pittsburgh lost 200,000 people.

@@jamesmooney8933 Pittsburgh area is basically the "Saudi Arabia of natural gas". Why we didn't go to gas DECADES earlier is a mystery to me. Hel, George Westinghouse was big on it, Having THREE gas wells on his property in the middle of HOMEWOOD (His estate is now "Westinghouse Park" in Homewood.)

1890s - 1930s PITTSBURGH

People that are from Pennsylvania names

Yeah the music is awful choice. So distracting.

I totally agree. That music blows and isn't appropriate for this at all.

The Gateway Clipoer fleet is still operating today . We had our Sr class dinner on one of the paddleboats with a band and great dinner . Cruising those rivers in a boat was a blast !

Pittsburgh was at one point called "Hell with the lid off" because of all the smoke and soot from the steel mills.

these are all dead and forgotten people and no one in the media is making a politicized documentary of how they built virtually everything like they do for other groups.

@@dampergoldenrod4156 oh yeah. Not sure if your from Pittsburgh but from time to time- I love taking a trip to the south side and shady side wondering what all the old abandoned buildings used to be.

Yeah ... That music doesn't match the subject matter. The music stinks.

Must be terrible not having a volume control on your device.

Mute: its a beautiful thing.

Dobrý den, jsem z České republiky. Můj děda s rodinou žil v Pittsburgh. Pracoval v ocelarnach- stell. Bylo to v letech 1912-1960.Rada sleduji dokumenty o Pittsburgh. Je to krásné město a připadá mi více v evropském stylu. Přeji vám vše dobré. S pozdravem Eva .

@@evaerlebachova9734 Sorry Eva, I can't read your language. I would like to know your feelings. Whether you agree or disagree with me. I am grateful for your response. Jim

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Dobrý den,děkuji za vaší odpověď, která mě potěšila. Anglicky jazyk neumím,tak snad překlad za mě zvládne můj mobil.Muj děda odešel za prací do Pittsburgh a v Evropě nechal rodinu ,kam se vracel jednou za rok ,kde opravoval svůj dům. Mému otci zemřela asi v 6 letech maminka a starší bratr též zemřel. Děda zanechal mého otce u příbuzných v Evropě a posílal jim na výchovu peníze,ale za jakých podmínek tam žil nic nevěděl. V mladosti otec hrál za klub fotbal.V 30 . letech odešel za prací do HradecKrálové. Ve druhé světové válce byl v koncentračním táboře. Děda z Pittsburgh mu 2× zaplatil cestu do USA a pokaždé na to odejel někdo jiný. Děda měl zájem, aby se se synem opět setkal,což už se nikdy neuskutečnílo. Děda se znova oženil a měl velkou rodinu,ale stále podporoval mého tátu, jak mohl. Můj táta se se svým otcem už nikdy neviděl,ale děda měl zájem o nás až do konce svého života. Dopisy,fotografie nám propojovaly naše životy. A to je asi tak vše, díky technice mohu nahlédnout do míst, kde žila,žije rodina ,kterou znám jen ze starých fotografií. S pozdravem Eva. ​@@jamesmooney8933

Yes, soooo much better now

@@catrina7083 I love sarcasm

I have so many fond memories of the old Forbes field ...with my dad , grandfather and great grandfather

Traitor

I have lived in Pittsburgh all my life. I know almost half of the places. It really hasn't change all thar much.

1890s -1930s PITTSBURGH

@@YELLTELL over 90 neighborhoods in Pittsburgh dum dum

@Teegeeack Queen idk what you are talking about, but your the idiot that can't spell dumb......

I visited Philly once as a child some 20 years ago amd the only thing i can remember are the liberty bell and the trash everywhere

My family started on upper 5th Avenue, then Sheridan and finally settled in Robinson Twp. I have no real childhood memories of 5th, but, in the sixties Sheridan was a child's paradise. Robinson was just too spread out.

Pittsburgh was already a clean, quaint city by 1984 yet philadelphia was full of litter in 1984.. pittsburgh seems like a mausoleum now. it only took about 10 years from 1975 to 1985 for pittsburgh to be a major city of importance to becoming a dying city and each 5 year period it only got worse and worse from 1985 onward.

@@dampergoldenrod4156 lots of transplants up here working so it isn’t a dying place at all.

The Mills weren't the main reason Pittsburgh was sooty. All the homes had coal burning furnaces and stoves, When THAT was outlawed is when it started clearing up

You can still find a lot of those buildings in Pittsburgh.

Thank you.. Dittos! Why do some RU-vidrs insist on adding unnecessary, obnoxious 'music' to ruin otherwise great videos....

I believe some of those really dirty street photos were pictures of after the floods that used to happen quite often. You can see sandbags in some of them. This was before locks and dams were built upstream on the Allegheny River.

Lady B thank you! I appreciate it!

The way god intended

@@YELLTELL Yes! Also, none of the hats are Baseball hats.

Didn't see any black men.🤫

@@penw3605 Seriously asshole? By looking at that picture you could tell there were no black people? You're being tested.

@@penw3605 Then you didn't actually look. One of the clearest faces looking straight at the camera is a black man. They were about 2% of the population, and preferred the Crawfords or Homestead Grays.

Yes, I'm very familiar with this place, up until the 80s it was bad with soot.

Joshua Gwyn good

Vinman101 thanks!

@@momofilms4960 Thanks i used to fish the Mon when i was 12yrs old. Caught bass and catfish. I took my fishing gear and got on a street car from Dormont to the end of the Smithfield street Bridge and walked down to the parking areas at that time.There was a stairwell there at that time

Vinman101 that’s cool man. Things have changed I could imagine

Many of these photos look "depressing" do to the seemingly awful street conditions, But here's a "fun fact" most of those photos were taken by the City's own photographer to document the progress street construction/reconstruction projects. That's why the streets look like hell. If you look near the sides of the streets, you will see stacks of brick, blocks ETC.

Your volume control busted?

Ummmmmm...... No

@@BritIronRebel Well, I can see you've never spent anytime there.

@@wwalt7229 OK??? I only live there....

@@BritIronRebel Nice going, now I know where you live. Genius.

@@wwalt7229 As if I actually care. You're comment is still...... Nope.