Before the US Steel Bldg, before PPG Place. Before 3 Rivers Stadium. The steel mills were still operating and the Civic Arena was a point of Pittsburgh Pride!
I love it. I still miss the old Civic Arena. My Dad took me to my first hockey game there when I was 7 years old....Pittsburgh Hornets vs. Cleveland Barons. And almost 60 years later, hockey and I are still madly in love.
This is the Pittsburgh of my childhood, the 60s. Like someone else mentioned, I live in Florida now, but Pittsburgh is always home. I remember seeing Camelot as a little girl in the Civic Arena when the roof opened it was truly awesome. I miss the Arena; remember when the US Steel Bldg was new in the 70s as was 3 Rivers. Yes, it was smoggy from the steel mills in those days but I wish they had never gone away.
I grew up in Dormont and i remember the Steel building being erected and i could see it from the top of the street when it was finished. It was the only building you could see of Pittsburgh from Dormont when coming home from school.
So happy to see this. I spent two high school years in Pgh. ...i was so homesick for LA, i was glad we came "home". But my time in Pittsburgh turned me into a history buff....and i loved that city's history. We lived in a leafy suburg near Carnegie...but went downtown (and i loved the way Pittsburghers said that word!) on Sundays to go to church. Thanks so much for posting this!
I spent school years of 1962-1965 attending the old Art Institute of Pittsburgh. Sadly I have few pictures of the city as it was then. Thanks for the great video. It takes me back to some great times and remembering good friends. The Point, the bridge to nowhere, Mt Washington. Ahhh, Pittsburgh, 1965. Good night, Mr. Pieri, where ever you are.
Very nice narration accompanying some memorable scenes. My family had moved to Pittsburgh from New York about 8 years earlier, and it was that summer of '65 that we got transferred overseas. We returned two years later, and spent another 8 years there. I'm not a native yinzer, and I've been in California for longer than my combined time in the 'Burgh, but Pittsburgh is where I grew up, and will always be home to me.
Thanks for showing these film clips of Pittsburgh from the past! I have never been to or lived in Pittsburgh, but seeing Pittsburgh from books, films, Pittsburgh magazine and Rick Sebak's documentaries about Pittsburgh and Western PA, I have always wanted to go there or possibly live there! I'm only a young adult, but seeing the history of Pittsburgh is truly amazing! It's sad to see the people of my generation ignore the history of cities like Pittsburgh because it is something special to see!
@@vinman1017 ...and NOT have an interest in other places? I'm FROM Pittsburgh (proudly), But I also have an an interest in OTHER cities. Even as a "kid" I was fascinated with Chicago, That does not mean I NOT proud of where I came from.
I was born and raised in Kent Ohio, with my hometown in the middle between Cleveland and Pittsburgh. I always wanted to live there and from Jan 2015 to Nov 2017 I got my wish, first living off McKnight Road...then 2 years in Troy Hill on Goettman...and 1 year in Monroeville at Flats of Fox Hills. It was a beautiful experience and I miss Pittsburgh. I now am in Tampa Florida and soon to try another state. Im somewhat of a Gypsy.
I moved to the burgh in'66 at the age of 6 and then in '74 my father was transferred to Louisville with Armour Packing. It was a great city to grow up in and will always be my hometown. From age 6 to 14 will always remain in my mind as a magical intangible dream because its now a memory so far removed.
Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle was really smoky and dirty in the 1960s. The refurbished, clean Golden Triangle now sparkles with many Fortune 500 companies based in it.
Great footage! I'm watching this from the University of Pittsburgh right now, so seeing Litchfield Towers was particularly cool. Unfortuantely, the loss of the steel mills halved Pittsburgh's population, but I think that the city really has changed for the better since those days. Today it's a bright and beautiful city with a reputation for its livability.
T Comden: Thank You! Thank you so very much for posting this for all of us to watch. The video part alone would have been great, but your narration and your choice of music for this made it that much better. I can only hope that you have more. Thank You Again!
Lived in P-burg suburb of Monroeville, 61-66. My parents, native new englanders who needed to be near the ocean, would up loving it there anyway for one reason: THE PEOPLE. My own childhood memories are fond beyond belief. You did a terrific job with this. thank you.
I grew up in the sixties. Great memories in this video. Thanks for posting it. Also very sad that this once worlds greatest city will never be this great again.
Wow. Great video, It's great to see where we came from. So much has changed since then. The Homestead works, who would have thought it would have been built up with shops and restaurants today. The Point, what a change there also. I have seen the concrete structures on the North Shore for the bridge, but have never seen a picture of it. That was awesome to see. Thanks for the vid.
Great! I love pictures of Pittsburgh. Moving pictures are even better. It would be nice if someone at the Art Institute or Pitt would volunteer to digitally remaster this for you. If they do that kind of work there. THanks for sharing.
Born and raised in New Kensington, about 20 mi. from Downtown. Pittsburgh may have been the Steel City, but New Ken was the Aluminum City...the birthplace of Alcoa.
I like seeing the past skylines of Pittsburgh. The Mellon, PPG, US Steel, and Fifth Avenue Place buildings are missing. I like to compare that to today.
so much has changed in pittsburgh since then, like there was no subway system back then, or many skyscrapers, other than gulf tower and Cathedral of learning, 2 new stadiums on the north shore, the a new Mellon Arena to replace the old one that will be Imploded in summer of 2010.
Hello Tcomden! What happened to the bridges that converged at The Point? Why did they knock them down? Also, outside Heinz Field is a Mr. Rogers statue. Isn't his statue under the support beam of one of the old bridges which converged at The Point?
wow hard to believe that one city can change so quickly. i love pittsburgh btw, does anyone knoe that black bridge that was by current point state park? just curious
Im currently 11, so i was born in mid 2009, i didnt even get to live in this time.. Not even in the 90s, i do know what the city looked like back then before this.. Actually i know what it wad like in the 1750s! Just a fort.. It was pronoinced pittsburgah, yes i ment to put the a in. Thats why it had an h in the word pittaburgh
that's a great video...i always wondered why on nfl films and old steelers games they always seemed to have an overcast day...was it really bcuz of the steel mills?
Moved to Pitt when I was 10 and moved when I was 21, im now 35 and think of Pittsburgh every single day of my life. I constantly tell my wife that its like no other place and that our kids would be better off there. She tries to understand what I mean but I dont think she actually gets it even though I go into detail. Pittsburgh is my home and always will be. Much love forever and always to the Burgh
The NY Yankees came into Pittsburgh for the 1960 World Series against the Pirates. They were BORED. They didn't want to be there. They had Attitude. Of all places, why did we have to play in Pittsburgh?? Pirates won the 1960 World Series in seven games, and sent those NY Yankees back to NYC with their tails between their legs!!
Wish I could have seen all the steel mills in operation still, would have been awesome to photograph them, but then again they made living in the city probably pretty disgusting.
I love it. I still miss the old Civic Arena. My Dad took me to my first hockey game there when I was 7 years old....Pittsburgh Hornets vs. Cleveland Barons. And almost 60 years later, hockey and I are still madly in love.
I remember listening to Penguin broadcasts on the radio. No televised games then.
Thanks for sharing your film with the world. I love when people take the time to make a film.
This is the Pittsburgh of my childhood, the 60s. Like someone else mentioned, I live in Florida now, but Pittsburgh is always home. I remember seeing Camelot as a little girl in the Civic Arena when the roof opened it was truly awesome. I miss the Arena; remember when the US Steel Bldg was new in the 70s as was 3 Rivers. Yes, it was smoggy from the steel mills in those days but I wish they had never gone away.
I grew up in Dormont and i remember the Steel building being erected and i could see it from the top of the street when it was finished. It was the only building you could see of Pittsburgh from Dormont when coming home from school.
I don’t get Florida. It’s not that interesting. In my opinion the northern cities are better
So happy to see this. I spent two high school years in Pgh. ...i was so homesick for LA, i was glad we came "home". But my time in Pittsburgh turned me into a history buff....and i loved that city's history. We lived in a leafy suburg near Carnegie...but went downtown (and i loved the way Pittsburghers said that word!) on Sundays to go to church. Thanks so much for posting this!
Thank you for this. This is were I grew up in the 50's and 60's.
I spent school years of 1962-1965 attending the old Art Institute of Pittsburgh. Sadly I have few pictures of the city as it was then. Thanks for the great video. It takes me back to some great times and remembering good friends. The Point, the bridge to nowhere, Mt Washington. Ahhh, Pittsburgh, 1965. Good night, Mr. Pieri, where ever you are.
Very nice narration accompanying some memorable scenes. My family had moved to Pittsburgh from New York about 8 years earlier, and it was that summer of '65 that we got transferred overseas. We returned two years later, and spent another 8 years there. I'm not a native yinzer, and I've been in California for longer than my combined time in the 'Burgh, but Pittsburgh is where I grew up, and will always be home to me.
This is an excellent film! I was born in the mid 70's but I remember the 80's and alot has changed drastically. I miss GC Murphy's and Mc Croy's LOL
At one time, Murphy's was where you had to go to buy Pirates tickets, unless you went straight to Forbes Field's ticket windows.
Thanks for showing these film clips of Pittsburgh from the past! I have never been to or lived in Pittsburgh, but seeing Pittsburgh from books, films, Pittsburgh magazine and Rick Sebak's documentaries about Pittsburgh and Western PA, I have always wanted to go there or possibly live there! I'm only a young adult, but seeing the history of Pittsburgh is truly amazing! It's sad to see the people of my generation ignore the history of cities like Pittsburgh because it is something special to see!
Just be proud of where you came from.
@@vinman1017 ...and NOT have an interest in other places? I'm FROM Pittsburgh (proudly), But I also have an an interest in OTHER cities. Even as a "kid" I was fascinated with Chicago, That does not mean I NOT proud of where I came from.
What a great job capturing the footage of Pittsburgh during the 60's. Thank you.
Thanks for the memories. I live in Florida now but Pittsburgh is always in my heart!
I was born and raised in Kent Ohio, with my hometown in the middle between Cleveland and Pittsburgh. I always wanted to live there and from Jan 2015 to Nov 2017 I got my wish, first living off McKnight Road...then 2 years in Troy Hill on Goettman...and 1 year in Monroeville at Flats of Fox Hills. It was a beautiful experience and I miss Pittsburgh. I now am in Tampa Florida and soon to try another state. Im somewhat of a Gypsy.
I moved to the burgh in'66 at the age of 6 and then in '74 my father was transferred to Louisville with Armour Packing. It was a great city to grow up in and will always be my hometown. From age 6 to 14 will always remain in my mind as a magical intangible dream because its now a memory so far removed.
Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle was really smoky and dirty in the 1960s. The refurbished, clean Golden Triangle now sparkles with many Fortune 500 companies based in it.
Great footage! I'm watching this from the University of Pittsburgh right now, so seeing Litchfield Towers was particularly cool. Unfortuantely, the loss of the steel mills halved Pittsburgh's population, but I think that the city really has changed for the better since those days. Today it's a bright and beautiful city with a reputation for its livability.
T Comden:
Thank You! Thank you so very much for posting this for all of us to watch. The video part alone would have been great, but your narration and your choice of music for this made it that much better. I can only hope that you have more.
Thank You Again!
Lived in P-burg suburb of Monroeville, 61-66. My parents, native new englanders who needed to be near the ocean, would up loving it there anyway for one reason: THE PEOPLE. My own childhood memories are fond beyond belief. You did a terrific job with this. thank you.
What an outstanding historical document. The music is wonderful as well.
Thanks for this wonderful memory of the "Good" times!
Hard to believe that it was still so prosperous even into the mid-60s.
I grew up in the sixties. Great memories in this video. Thanks for posting it. Also very sad that this once worlds greatest city
will never be this great again.
Thanks for the nice trip down memory lane.
Excellent! Bravo! Thank you for taking the time to post your video. Awesome narration.
Wow. Great video, It's great to see where we came from. So much has changed since then. The Homestead works, who would have thought it would have been built up with shops and restaurants today. The Point, what a change there also. I have seen the concrete structures on the North Shore for the bridge, but have never seen a picture of it. That was awesome to see. Thanks for the vid.
Well done! Thanks for making and sharing this.
Awesome! Music too. A little before I was born but I can relate. From the Mon Valley.
Very nice. I grew up in Philadelphia so to me Pittsburgh is sort of like a brother on the other side of the state
Great Ol' Pittsburgh! The Steel Capitol Of the World. The City of Steel & Bridges!
I love your video!! Thanks:)
Great video footage!
Wow, thank you so much for posting this vidio. It's just the way I remember Pittsburgh grow up. Stinkie.
Great! I love pictures of Pittsburgh. Moving pictures are even better. It would be nice if someone at the Art Institute or Pitt would volunteer to digitally remaster this for you. If they do that kind of work there. THanks for sharing.
great video !!
We used to call the old piers from the Wabash bridge "Fulton's Piers"...
Nice video.
Love the video
Born and raised in New Kensington, about 20 mi. from Downtown. Pittsburgh may have been the Steel City, but New Ken was the Aluminum City...the birthplace of Alcoa.
very cool. I love this tahn!
I like seeing the past skylines of Pittsburgh. The Mellon, PPG, US Steel, and Fifth Avenue Place buildings are missing. I like to compare that to today.
Thanks. That's how I remember it.
Bravo! Pittsburgh in the latter part of the golden age of American made steel.
so much has changed in pittsburgh since then, like there was no subway system back then, or many skyscrapers, other than gulf tower and Cathedral of learning, 2 new stadiums on the north shore, the a new Mellon Arena to replace the old one that will be Imploded in summer of 2010.
Good stuff, Dub.
tc... great video... Homestead was a bit "smokey" in '65
Awesome city with awesome history. I can't say anything bad about it, other than it's professional sports teams! But really...I love it there.
It’s a beautiful city. I grew up in Philadelphia so I’m a fan of city scapes
wow, the incline and civic arena look the same
Hello Tcomden! What happened to the bridges that converged at The Point? Why did they knock them down? Also, outside Heinz Field is a Mr. Rogers statue. Isn't his statue under the support beam of one of the old bridges which converged at The Point?
wow hard to believe that one city can change so quickly. i love pittsburgh
btw, does anyone knoe that black bridge that was by current point state park?
just curious
@DankMcstankey They've been parking on the Mon Wharf since cars came out. You can find pics from 100 years ago with parking there.
what were east liberty and atwood streets in oakland like? i heard they were vibrant neighborhood shopping areas at the time.
Im currently 11, so i was born in mid 2009, i didnt even get to live in this time.. Not even in the 90s, i do know what the city looked like back then before this.. Actually i know what it wad like in the 1750s! Just a fort.. It was pronoinced pittsburgah, yes i ment to put the a in. Thats why it had an h in the word pittaburgh
that's a great video...i always wondered why on nfl films and old steelers games they always seemed to have an overcast day...was it really bcuz of the steel mills?
My Grandmother grew up here in the mid 1940s. It was so polluted that she had to sweep the soot and grime off her house! LOL!
@deshy88umkc They were razed because the were in the way of the planned fountain. The Point looks much better without them.
Moved to Pitt when I was 10 and moved when I was 21, im now 35 and think of Pittsburgh every single day of my life. I constantly tell my wife that its like no other place and that our kids would be better off there. She tries to understand what I mean but I dont think she actually gets it even though I go into detail. Pittsburgh is my home and always will be. Much love forever and always to the Burgh
do have anymore old footage.its interesting
Now it's much better.
Fort Pitt!
J&L...almost looks like the "stacks" at the water front
The NY Yankees came into Pittsburgh for the 1960 World Series against the Pirates. They were BORED. They didn't want to be there. They had Attitude. Of all places, why did we have to play in Pittsburgh??
Pirates won the 1960 World Series in seven games, and sent those NY Yankees back to NYC with their tails between their legs!!
I'm from Northside federal st ext
Great, except the music was a bit sappy.
Wish I could have seen all the steel mills in operation still, would have been awesome to photograph them, but then again they made living in the city probably pretty disgusting.
A great city to raise a family. Your children will never fore get it
Pittsburgh - White City :D
I'm glad that the got rid of those ugly train bridges into what is now Point State Park.