[PRCo] Re: so where was it?
Derrick Brashear
shadow at gmail.com
Wed Feb 29 12:16:47 EST 2012
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Derrick Brashear <shadow at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Derrick Brashear <shadow at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://www.pbase.com/michaeljsosalla/image/134077016
>>
>> That looks like a White Tower, but no White Tower I know of fits:
>> -6th St
>> -Liberty at William Penn
>> -Liberty at 11th
>> -Centre and Craig
>> -Chestnut by the Heinz Plant
>> -Cedar near East Ohio
>> -Penn Circle South at S Beatty
>> -Chartiers Ave, McKees Rocks
>> -Forbes Avenue, Oakland
>>
>> There were a total of 15 White Towers in Pittsburgh, and that's 9 of them.
>
> Apparently Franklin Avenue in Aliquippa had one (300 block, on the Elm
> Alley side) until about 1980,
> but buildings there don't fit.
So'd Penn Avenue, Turtle Creek, but by 1979 Triboro Expressway altered
the terrain enough that no place in Turtle Creek fit that.
That leaves 4 more. Hm.
--
Derrick
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