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East Liberty 1935: Subterranean Public Bathrooms

May 17, 2017 Lindsay

Today’s post comes from East Liberty Valley Historic Society Facebook page. ELVHS added some helpful captions to this photo of Penn Ave from 1935. This is the section of Penn Ave where Target is now located. One of the questions on the Facebook post asks if these bathrooms still exist underground. It would be interesting to find out if these were filled in or if there are still bathrooms under Penn Ave. A different take on the Pittsburgh Potty. I don’t believe any of the buildings in this photograph are still standing today. You can find more information about Joyce… Read the rest

Filed Under: History Tagged With: #thisplacematters, East Liberty, East Liberty (Pittsburgh), East Liberty Valley Historic Society, penn ave, preservation month

Get a Birds Eye View of East Liberty, Steeple Tour of East Liberty Presbyterian Church

May 6, 2017 Lindsay

view from top of East Liberty Presbyterian ChuchAnother one of Pittsburgh’s best kept secrets. I happened to be at East Liberty Presbyterian Church one Sunday morning and I always read the bulletin because each Sunday they put in fun trivia facts about the music and things that happened on this day in history. I noticed they were offering a tour of the building after the service. It was one of those gray summer Sunday’s where I didn’t have anything else planned, so I stuck around and joined a handful of folks for a tour of the building from top to bottom, well it was actually from bottom… Read the rest

Filed Under: Free, Historic Preservation Tagged With: #thisplacematters, East Liberty (Pittsburgh), east liberty presbyterian church, preservation month, Ralph Adams Cram, tour

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