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Originally Posted by pantophobia
Pittsburgh - one of the most beautiful cities, filled with old brick buildings in parts of downtown, taking the Penn Turnpike to get there is fucking hell though, the worst highway i have ever been on (have to pay toll, no exits for 40 miles at a time, jersey barriers, pushy truck convoys at night)
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Yeah, the turnpike sucks, but some of those rest stops kick ass- most of them either have a Roy Rogers or a Popeye's Chicken + a TCBY yogurt and sometimes a McDonalds. I have a certain love for PA turnpike rest stops. They are like oases.
Luckily I live north of the city so I don't have to use it to go there.
I remember reading a short essay in a lit book complaining about the brick buildings- especially the yellow brick.
Downtown my favorite thing is the huge old armory that is still intact from Fort Pitt. And the point. I saw SY do a free show on the point. It was great. Mount Washington is cool because it has a really beautiful veiw of the city.
Carson Street on the southside is nice and can be a good bit of fun.
The waterfront (on the monongahela river, the south river) has a huge fricking lowes cinema and a really nice outdoor shopping area. They left the old smokestacks from a steel factory there and it gives the place a cool vibe- even though the real reason they didn't taken them down was because they'd have to spend millions in asbestos removal. It is ironic that the place is right where the Homestead strike was.
The waterworks (on the allegheny, the north river) is similar but older complex. Right down the road from the best music store in Pittsburgh.
the north shore of Pittsburgh has the Warhol, the science center, heinz field, and pnc park- that part of it is nice, but the rest is sort of a dump
the strip district is awesome- specialty food stores, markets, a primanti brothers restaurant, etc.
then of course there is the stuff east of the city-
Oakland/Squirrel Hill- has the Carnegie Museum, the Frick museum, the cathedral of learning, Frick Park, Schenley park, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh, Duquesne University, Chatham College, and Carlow College.
Shadyside/Highland Park- pretty nice as well and has the Pittsburgh Zoo
Oh, also on the north side inbetween the north shore and the waterworks is troy hill, as well as millvale (where Mr. Smalls is, a decent club that has shows every night, SY played a kickass show there recently, as did Gang of Four) and the Heinz factory, and a really good microbrewery that has a bunch of awesome german food.
then there are the poorer areas- but none of them are all that scary. Pittsburgh isn't a really dangerous city- people still get mugged, but it isn't really that bad. Pittsburgh's "bad areas" are not really bad areas by the standards of most cities.