A Saturday afternoon in the neighborhood...1956

[HOF Coach]

 

[Joe Magarac]

Check out the J&L steel mills in the background, belching out the soot and smoke.
Part of the Green Old Deal.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

Check out the J&L steel mills in the background, belching out the soot and smoke.
Part of the Green Old Deal.

And people complain that environmental regulations pushed the Steel industry to Eastern Europe and Asia where they let you do whatever you want

 

[lilspainishflea]

And people complain that environmental regulations pushed the Steel industry to Eastern Europe and Asia where they let you do whatever you want

The loss of the steel industry definitely hurt Pittsburgh, but let's not take it for granted that it was a total loss. Imagine living in this:

 

[Panthers2015]

A beaut.

 

[pittdan77]

The loss of the steel industry definitely hurt Pittsburgh, but let's not take it for granted that it was a total loss. Imagine living in this:

I think the cluster of lung cancer cases in the mid-Mon Valley probably supports that.

 

[Pitt1975]

I remember a Bessemer furnace in McKeesport that would light up the night sky. Mom would bitch about all the soot on the window ledges...And we lived across the river on the bluff in West Mifflin...Think there is one in Station Square park.
Great pic, thanks for sharing...

 

[wicker]

The parking, man, the parking!!

 

[dougpaper]

that's is how half the country still views Pittsburgh, Every time I travel I hear it. Dirtiest to one of the cleanest cities. People who never visited think we are covered in smog, I tell them know just rain clouds