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View Poll Results: Favorite Pittsburgh Landmark(what makes Pittsburgh Unique?)
Andy Warhol Museum 0 0%
Carnegie Science Center 0 0%
Cathedral of Learning 7 19.44%
Pittsburgh Mills 0 0%
Duquesne Incline 10 27.78%
Carnegie Museum of art and science 3 8.33%
Point State Park 6 16.67%
"Three Sisters" Bridges 1 2.78%
Ye Old Robinson Town "Centre" 1 2.78%
Pittsburgh National Aviary 1 2.78%
Carson St. (bar and pub crawls) 2 5.56%
PNC Park 1 2.78%
Squirrel Hill business district 0 0%
Golden Triangle (architecture walks) 2 5.56%
Monroeville Mall 0 0%
Station square 0 0%
Hienz Field 0 0%
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical gardens 0 0%
Schenley park 2 5.56%
The Mattress Factory(no, not where they make your bed) 0 0%
Voters: 36. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 07-19-2008, 01:13 PM
 
Location: Hell with the lid off, baby!
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The little things: the ethnic neighborhoods that are still largely intact. Polish Hill was an oasis of cobblestone streets and dramatic contrasts of new and old, of glass and steel skyscrapers up against antique, pristine row houses fronted by an army of babushkas sweeping their stoops and their sidewalks. Forgive the stereotype, but when I was there last that's just what it was, and it was like having one foot in the past and while the other was being tugged into the future.

The Oyster House in Market Square with those great photos everywhere of Pittsburgh sports icons, their fish sandwiches which were never very good but never very bad. The Strip District with its combination of truckers and businessmen and civilians rushing in and out, Uptown Fifth Avenue as it was then, half new Hill District half old hold-outs making their stand at Bubbles Deli and the All-Star pool hall.

I'm not saying I don't dig the bridges and as another poster mentioned the weather beacon that the Gulf Building was in those days, and who could say that the Cathedral of Learning is not impressive; used to be, maybe it still is, the tallest university building in the world. But it's the things made and maintained by "people" not architects that to me are most moving.
The Cathedral is actually quite very impressive now since its acid bath!!!
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Old 07-20-2008, 05:37 AM
 
Location: cook forest pa
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I voted for point state park only because all of north side wasn' t on on the list.I was born and raised there only to leave to go in the army. came back ther to raise a family.Now have left again and moved to "camp". Still get down every so often buc games and whatever. Last time there took some young folks around to west park, ya ya's made my buddys 18 year old sit on the deer and took his picture( i don't know if he got the meanig or not), but he sent me a thank you card and asked when my next tour would be so he bring so buddys. All of Pittsburgh is special to me and coming back just renforces what a great plase it is
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