Looking for Photos of Pittsburgh Restaurants for Documentary (Liberty, Oakland: credit, activities)

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Hi All - I am making 2.5 documentaries about Pittsburgh food. The first film deals with Pittsburgh restaurants from the late 1970s to now with a greater focus on now. The 70s, 80s, and 90s to some extent just receive a few highlights.

In order to avoid some assumed licensing costs, I'm looking for photos or menus from certain restaurants and wanted to see if anyone had any of these. If you do and you wouldn't mind me taking a hi-res photograph of your photograph or menu, please let me know! This project (at the moment) is completely self-funded and has been going on for 10 months. There will be some fundraising activities this May or June to raise money for festival submissions, music licensing, sound mastering, and screening costs. Hoping that in the fall the film will screen at Filmmakers on multiple nights with a "industry" screening or two - you know, on Mondays at 3pm or so.

If you can contribute, I will definitely send you download links to the finished films and can credit you as photographer in the credits.

These are the restaurants that I am looking for:

Rico's
Johnny Lounders
La Normande
Baum Vivant
Cafe Allegro
Dish
Mad Mex (Oakland)
Kaya
Casbah

Old photos of Downtown Pittsburgh, Homewood, and East Liberty restaurants.


If you want to see a small snippet of the film, here is a sequence of some of the current restaurants: Moderator cut: link removed, please read the tos