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There was a fun interview with a local volunteer on WQED who has been working with foreign media. My favorite part was her story about a German journalist who wanted to take a bus to the Zoo. Of course she had no clue how to do that, but looked at some maps and eventually called the Zoo and got the information.
Of course in part I like the story just because I like the idea of foreign journalists getting bored Downtown and visiting places like the Zoo. But it also reminded me, as they later discussed in the interview, of what a nightmare it has to be for the local volunteers to try to give directions on demand--I know I wouldn't want to try!
The broken glass toll on Forbes is everything reported earlier plus the Rite Aid pharmacy and the McDonald's and the Subway restaurants.
Police presence has dissipated and the activity on Forbes has been reduced to students coming out to look at the damage done.
One student, Amanda Eggert, 20, a junior at Pitt, was one of those on the street afterwards. "We're hungry and we wanted a late-night snack," she said outside the boarded-up McDonald's on Forbes. "We're just trying to live our normal lives. What did McDonald's ever do except make delicious chicken nuggets?"
City public works employees were on the scene by 1 to sweep up glass and board up broken windows.
PITTSBURGH — The Falk Laboratory School, a little gray brick building atop a hill in Pittsburgh's Oakland section, overlooks a heart-stopping vista of the city that unfurls straight down to the Monongahela River. This was my elementary school, and the song we sang about it in music class featured this line: "Above a city of bridges and steel, of rivers and mill fires burning."
As I grew up in the 1970s and early 1980s, this was the city I saw from my school's playground. One afternoon, a teacher happened upon me looking off into the distance at some of the smoke and said something like this: "You're watching an era end." I had no idea what he meant.
PITTSBURGH — The Falk Laboratory School, a little gray brick building atop a hill in Pittsburgh's Oakland section, overlooks a heart-stopping vista of the city that unfurls straight down to the Monongahela River. This was my elementary school, and the song we sang about it in music class featured this line: "Above a city of bridges and steel, of rivers and mill fires burning."
As I grew up in the 1970s and early 1980s, this was the city I saw from my school's playground. One afternoon, a teacher happened upon me looking off into the distance at some of the smoke and said something like this: "You're watching an era end." I had no idea what he meant.
Great article!
I will add that I think the mindset of Pittsburghers is one reason Pittsburgh is weathering this recession so well.
Pittsburghers weren't scared like the rest of the country. We've been through it and we survived.
I think that plays a part in why Pittsburgh's companies haven't done large layoffs.
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