Before the Civic Arena (Washington: home, neighborhood, live)

[nuwaver88]

Storytelling: Vibrant collection of backgrounds preceded the arena

I liked this article. Downtown could use a neighborhood like this within it's proximity. It would have modern touches, of course. Could Uptown recreate some of this magic? Let's wait and see.

[rr61]

Thank you for posting this.

In some recent threads in this forum I posted about how happy my first 12 years of life in the Lower Hill were.

What a thrill to read this wonderful PG piece written by someone I knew there. I lived on Washington, just around the corner and down a little from where the writer lived on Wylie. His descriptions of life there are exactly as I remember it.

I lived away from Pgh from '87 to '08. When I returned to see still another arena being built in the neighborhood that was destroyed for the first arena, I became both bitter and nostalgic. Bitter because we were removed from a home my family owned from before 1900 and nostalgic for those happy childhood days in the Hill. It's good to see that someone from my era, someone I knew, feels the same way and was able to convey his feelings with a fine writing style .