[PRCo] Re: Assorted Photos Off The 'Net

[Edward H. Lybarger]

The Iroquois Building is at 3600 Forbes.

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Schneider
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Subject: [PRCo] Re: Assorted Photos Off The 'Net

OK, my friend.   Easy for you.   I see the "-UOIS" on the roof of a distant
building but it is no longer on the building to confirm it.  There is a
building of similar height across the street.

I take it you are suggesting that we are looking west on Forbes St. from
Oakland toward Atwood.  The problem I have with the street view in Bing maps
is that it doesn't show any of those buildings nor does it show the hump in
the street today.   You worked in that part of the city.

For those who don't appreciate the Iroquois Building, here are a couple of
links.

     http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmag/bk_issue/1996/novdec/rsrh5.htm

     http://www.tour.pitt.edu/tour-500.html

But it does suggest that the 5th Ave.jpeg on the original picture is false.



On Nov 13, 2012, at 4:20 PM, Derrick Brashear wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
wrote:
>> The real gem is the first one . the picture of the rear of the 4000
(Brill 1909) on one of the Highland Park lines probably around 1920.  I
printed it but I still cannot read the street name behind the tree above the
man.   I drove my Google-Mobile over all the logical streets and I cannot
locate those buildings . i.e. Highland, Negley, Centre, lower Fifth, lower
Forbes.   I know the caption reads 5th Avenue but South Highland ran via
Forbes so my first instinct was to try all sorts of combinations.   Nothing
works today because too many buildings have been torn down.  I would relish
having a 110 year old geezer tell me, "I know where it is . I lived there."
Unfortunately a lot of the heart of East Liberty was been demolished by
Urban Ruinall.   Lower Forbes was wiped out by the Crosstown Expressway and
the Boulevard of the Allies.  Many of the homes on very lower Herron Hill
disappeared in the Civic Arena project.   Since then the next mile has had
many of the old home!
 s!
>  r!
>> eplaced by newer ones.   And farther out Centre more than half the
buildings simply disappeared .looks like Euclid Avenue in Cleveland.  The
hill does feel right for lower Forbes or lower 5th, however; it's just that
the buildings are there today.
> 
> Oh, that's easy. It's Forbes in Oakland.
> 
> Notice the Iroquois Building behind it, on the left? Building's still
there.
> 
> -- 
> Derrick
> 
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