If you could bring back one demolished Pittsburgh landmark, which would you pick? (Liberty: theater, casino)

[Flamingo13]

Originally Posted by AnneWest

I loved the Jenkins Arcade when I was little. We had a regular Saturday shopping event, with lunch on the balcony in Hornes.

Our dentist was in the Jenkins Arcade which we passed thru, and since my mother sewed everything she could, there was a tiny button store on the first floor she visited often.

I was mesmerized by the immense number of buttons and still have memories of looking waaay up the shelves that reached the ceiling.

My childhood dentist was there also! Maybe the same guy? I remember the elevator operator.

[SorryIMovedBack]

Another fascinating thread! Thanks for the link to the urban renewal story. And the pictures of the old Smithfield St. Post Office. I have always wondered what the building across the street from the Post Office, in the 1920s, that is, looked like. I inherited a lavalier necklace, which is currently in a safe deposit box, so I can't get the wording off the inside of the box lid. But it came from the jeweler on Smithfield, in the late 1920s, and inside the box is printed the jeweler's name, the address on Smithfield, and under that, it says "across the street from the Post Office."

This is the lavalier:

[Debbie1125]

I was in Joseph Horne's in the 1990's. The interior was so elegant, and reminded me of Strawbridge's and Lit's department stores in downtown Philly. At least none of them were demolished. I think Highmark is in the Horne's building now and I do remember it being an Old Navy for a short time before that.

[greg42]

Originally Posted by Debbie1125

I was in Joseph Horne's in the 1990's. The interior was so elegant, and reminded me of Strawbridge's and Lit's department stores in downtown Philly. At least none of them were demolished. I think Highmark is in the Horne's building now and I do remember it being an Old Navy for a short time before that.

Well it was both at the same time. Highmark owns the building and occupies all the upper floors. (They also own Fifth Avenue Place across the street.) The layout I suspect retains little to none of what it looked like as Horne's (or Lazarus, as it was before they moved to the newly built Lazarus store a few blocks away, now also defunct and renovated). I can see cube farms through the windows when I'm across the street in the garage. The lower level became retail, and the Penn/Stanwix corner was Old Navy for a while, then that closed and nothing moved in there; Highmark put their employee gym in there instead. The Rite Aid (originally Eckerd) was the other new tenant. Max & Erma's down on the end of Stanwix has been there since I moved here 20 years ago.

The plaques on the outside at Stanwix and Penn do still say Joseph Horne Co, the only homage left that I know of. There's also a plaque for the high water mark 1936. It's well over your head.

[andyt4579]

Go with the post office, but from reading about it, this might be 2nd

Even if it was only around for a year or two over a century ago

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[PreservationPioneer]

What a beautiful necklace!

[PeterRabbit]

I would love to miss the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust that chased the nightlife out of downtown.

[Debbie1125]

Originally Posted by SorryIMovedBack

Another fascinating thread! Thanks for the link to the urban renewal story. And the pictures of the old Smithfield St. Post Office. I have always wondered what the building across the street from the Post Office, in the 1920s, that is, looked like. I inherited a lavalier necklace, which is currently in a safe deposit box, so I can't get the wording off the inside of the box lid. But it came from the jeweler on Smithfield, in the late 1920s, and inside the box is printed the jeweler's name, the address on Smithfield, and under that, it says "across the street from the Post Office."

I always love threads about older buildings and the way things used to be. Don't get me wrong...I am a fan of urban downtowns and neighborhoods mixing the old with the new.

Still some of the buildings that are no more were architecturally beautiful. One thing I do notice about Pittsburgh's downtown. They tend to not tear down as much and put in surface parking lots. Putting a convenience store, CVS, etc. in those buildings, to me at least, is far better than demolishing them.

[SammyKhalifa]

Notice how nobody's saying Three Rivers Stadium . . .

[greg42]

Originally Posted by SammyKhalifa

Notice how nobody's saying Three Rivers Stadium . . .

Funny! That crossed my mind yesterday I think it was. Not to actually say I want it back, LOL. Just trying to think of things that were here when I got here 20 years ago but gone now. It's harder to have a strong connection to something I didn't see and experience. I did visit Three Rivers, but really, who would want to keep that? The thing I lament there is that they didn't originally build one of the more ambitious and interesting designs that we might still be using (with renovations).