Pittsburgh might be a nice place to live, but I would not want to visit
there <grin>.
It is another place hit hard by the deindustrialization of America. I
was just thinking about the fact that our industrial might was what won
the Civil War, WWI, and WWII (Yeah, I know everyone else's was bombed to
hell). Now we have moved everything offshore and those countries have
that industrial base. Someone in Washington was not thinking (What am I
saying no one in Washington thinks at all). They should have been giving
companies huge incentives to replace aging infrastructures with new, and
taxing offshore manufacture to hell and gone.
graywolf
http://www.graywolfphoto.com
"Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof"
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Bob W wrote:
Mark,
going by the book "Dream Street: W Eugene Smith's Pittsbirgh Project" there
seem to be a number of bridges of that general type in and around
Pittsburgh. Not surprisingly many of them appear to connect steel mills. The
title page features one such bridge, captioned as "Union Railroad Bridge
connecting Homestead with Swissvale and Rankin, Monongahela River". There is
another very similar to yours in the background of one of the photos on
p.88. It seems to be around Mt. Washington. I have absolutely no idea if
that is anywhere even remotely near Braddock, PA.
I've always thought Pittsburgh looks like an interesting place, ever since I
first saw "The Deer Hunter".
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Cheers,
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 21 November 2005 22:24
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: Re: another harassment by police story
"Bob W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Mark Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I shot this pano
this morning:
http://www.robertstech.com/temp/bridge.jpg
That bridge looks familiar. Am I right in thinking that W E Smith
photographed it quite a lot?
I'm not even sure what bridge it is. It's actually in
Braddock, PA, just upstream from Pittsburgh on the
Monongahela river and home to the area's only (I think)
surviving steel mill. This bridge is abandoned. It's a
railroad bridge that connects nothing to nothing else. There
are tracks on both sides of the river, but neither set
connects to this bridge any more. Just out of frame to the
left is an abandoned steel mill:
http://www.robertstech.com/temp/mill.jpg
I'd love to be able to photograph both the bridge and the
mill seriously, but I don't think I'll be able to get near
enough to either
:)
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Mark Roberts
Photography and writing
www.robertstech.com
