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09-05-2009, 07:47 AM
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Some fun pics I took around Pittsburgh, the Strip, and Millvale
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09-05-2009, 11:15 AM
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Thanks for some really interesting material! The Hotel Wentz, for example, is a fascinating building.
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09-05-2009, 12:18 PM
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Real nice... Hey where exactly is the hotel Wentz?
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09-05-2009, 01:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Chichappens
Real nice... Hey where exactly is the hotel Wentz?
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In Millvale, on the stretch of Evergreen Road between Friday and Seavey roads.
Envision an old-fashioned western movie style hotel with a salon on the first floor. That's what this place was.
It was probably a very nice little hotel with full service dining in its heyday.
From the 1960s (or earlier) until the early 1980s, the first floor was a dive bar and the upper floors were rooms for rent.
Families on the verge of homelessness ended up there all living in one room.
I assume the building is condemned now. |
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09-05-2009, 02:18 PM
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The Hotel Wentz is at 701 Evergreen Rd. in Millvale. I looked it up on the county website. It is assessed for $48,000. Wish it was for sale -- I'd buy it and fix it up.  |
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09-05-2009, 03:14 PM
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Contac the owners. I'm sure they'd sell. It has been abandoned/vacant for years.
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09-05-2009, 03:31 PM
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I am not politically correct
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Thanks, cool stuff.
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09-05-2009, 03:42 PM
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Nice pics, some neat buildings.
Thanks for the tour.
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09-05-2009, 07:13 PM
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Interestingly the owner of Wentz has an FCC radio licence under that address.
Call Sign: KO3L, Licensee ID: L01383636
Grant Date: 03/26/2008, Expiration Date: 04/22/2018, Certifier: Edward F Voit
Registrant: Edward F Voit, 701 Evergreen Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15209
Found on citydata via google search.
http://www.city-data.com/aradio/lic-...nsylvania.html |
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09-05-2009, 07:47 PM
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Pittsburgh's gritty industrial past, old warehouses and factories. I love them.
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I do too.
You were so close, but didn't take a picture of "The Brake House", at 25th and Liberty. Supposedly George Westinghouse developed the air brake there. It's now been turned into condos. I did some work there.
* I planted those trees.  (Among other things.) |
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