Take a walk in the Cultural District.

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As a young man in the early 1990’s the area known as the Cultural District was far from that. It was a forgoten part of downtown. It was dangerous. Pepshows and bars. Not the kind of places you wanted to go. Homeless and trash. Pittsburgh was still in decline. The scares of losing many steel jobs were still healing. The Culture District Represented the beging of the healing process. The Vision and Founding Transformation and Development

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Pittsburgh’s North Shore vs North Side.

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To some it’s everything across the Alleghney River from downtown. There is more to it then that. The North Shore is the area between the  Rachel Carson Bridge, or  Ninth Street Bridge to the Rivers Casino. It’s a new area bulldozed in the late 1990s/2000 to build stadiums and ball parks. Its the bustling place on game day. None game days its filled with chain resturants and river trails. Its a river life The Northside is north of the highway. Its filled with neighborhoods and mom and pop resturants. Quit parks and beuitiful old houses .

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Take a walk on the Northside

Randyland The Northside is the home to artist. Pittsburgh has a thriving art community. Maybe you heardof our favorite son, Andy Warhol. Randy Gilson lives in the Mexican War Streets district of on the Northside. He turned his home into an art exhibit.

For most people the Northside is a Steeler game or Pirates game. That area is actually the North Shore. Pittsburgh is a city made up of neighhoods. And sometimes cities. The Northside was accually the city of Allegheny. Its acculy one of my favorite places to photograph. The buildings a 1900 vibe. And then around the corner is a robot company. Now and then you get a hint of Deutschtown and its German immigrants East Allegheny, also known as Deutschtown, is a neighborhood on Pittsburgh’s North Side. It has a ZIP code of 15212, and has representation on Pittsburgh City …

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