OLD PITTSBURGH PHOTOGRAPHS 1890s-1930s
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- čas přidán 24. 02. 2018
- Trying something new with this video. I uploaded a video of some of the old pictures taken of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The pictures are from the early 1890s to the late 1930s. I found the images contained in this video to be very fascinating. I DO NOT own the rights to these photographs. If you think i should do more of these type videos, let me know in the comments below! Hope you enjoy the video!
I got most of my pictures from this website
www.historicpittsburgh.org/
I highly recommend checking this website out if you enjoyed this video
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A War Song by L3V3Ls
Sunburst by Tobu & Itro
Flavour by Itro
Ascension by Elektronomia & Alex Skrindo
![Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1917) | [1080pHD] | Colorized | AI Enhanced](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/G_vi57WraW0/mqdefault.jpg)
![Harlem, New York 1930s in color, [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/zyD3HbpvTNs/mqdefault.jpg)
My grandmother grew up in Pittsburgh. She was born in 1912 in the Brookline section. She said the smoke and smog was so bad they used to have to sweep their stoop 2-3 times a day bc the soot would fall from the sky
My Grandmother was born in 1922. She said that you never wore White downtown, or you would come home wearing Gray.
My mother was born in 1929 and grew up in Hazelwood and said ladies there took down and washed their curtains twice a day because of all the soot from the steel mills. That was long before pollution regulations were put into effect.
@@KenPotter That was before my time. My mother told me about it.
My family lived through it.
As a matter of fact my ancestors came to Pittsburgh in from 1840 to 1870. Pittsburgh was a great place to work.
Most of my family live past the "life time expectancy".
I heard that from my mother. It wasn't that bad in the 50's. The thing that improved Pittsburgh air was switching from home coal heating to natural gas. As a matter of fact the first natural gas wells were drilled outside my uncle farm.
In the 50's, most homes were heated by natural gas.
My dad worked in the Steel Mill. As we'd drive by the smoke stacks of the steel mill. My dad would say, "see that smoke, that puts food on our table.
In the 80's, all the steel mills disappeared with the smoke, and Pittsburgh lost 200,000 people.
I love Pittsburgh. I grew up there. My earliest memories of Pittsburgh are in 1958.
Me too, Keith! Pittsburgh is beautiful now, all cleaned up and a mix of modern along side historic buildings. I never want to live anywhere else.
Take the music out!!!! Who would pick this music?
Yeah the music is awful choice. So distracting.
I totally agree. That music blows and isn't appropriate for this at all.
I grew up in Pittsburgh. In particular I remember the paddle wheel steam ships on the rivers and the cobble stone streets and the trolleys. Later my dad acquired some of the cobble stones when he was putting in a driveway and I helped with the work. Each cobble stone weighed nearly 80 pounds!
The Gateway Clipoer fleet is still operating today . We had our Sr class dinner on one of the paddleboats with a band and great dinner . Cruising those rivers in a boat was a blast !
I’m grateful for all the past workers building the city. A lot of unsafe working conditions and no regulations at the time. I can only imagine the toll it took on your body. 😔
Pittsburgh was at one point called "Hell with the lid off" because of all the smoke and soot from the steel mills.
these are all dead and forgotten people and no one in the media is making a politicized documentary of how they built virtually everything like they do for other groups.
@@dampergoldenrod4156 oh yeah. Not sure if your from Pittsburgh but from time to time- I love taking a trip to the south side and shady side wondering what all the old abandoned buildings used to be.
I love the old pictures but they would have even been better with some names of were the picture was taken
1890s - 1930s PITTSBURGH
People that are from Pennsylvania names
I'm from St.louis and I love looking at old photos of these great historical cities
Hey, WTF were you thinking with this music???
the pics are cool, the music however doesn't fit and is very nauseating.
Yeah ... That music doesn't match the subject matter. The music stinks.
Must be terrible not having a volume control on your device.
Mute: its a beautiful thing.
Lose the music. Nice photos.
What a grim place back in the day. It's amazing how few trees there are compared to now.
Yes, soooo much better now
@@catrina7083 I love sarcasm
I am a 5th generation Pittsburgher. Of those 5 generation, they were born, lived and died in Pittsburgh, because you could always get work in Pittsburgh.
I remember my dad driving past the Steel Mills, and he'd say to me. "See that smoke (coming out of the Steel Mill chemney), that puts food on our table. "
When the Steel Mills were knocked down, Pittsburgh lost 300,000 people, because there was no food for the table.
Dobrý den, jsem z České republiky. Můj děda s rodinou žil v Pittsburgh. Pracoval v ocelarnach- stell. Bylo to v letech 1912-1960.Rada sleduji dokumenty o Pittsburgh. Je to krásné město a připadá mi více v evropském stylu.
Přeji vám vše dobré. S pozdravem Eva .
@@evaerlebachova9734 Sorry Eva, I can't read your language. I would like to know your feelings. Whether you agree or disagree with me. I am grateful for your response.
Jim
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Dobrý den,děkuji za vaší odpověď, která mě potěšila.
Anglicky jazyk neumím,tak snad překlad za mě zvládne můj mobil.Muj děda odešel za prací do Pittsburgh a v Evropě nechal rodinu ,kam se vracel jednou za rok ,kde opravoval svůj dům. Mému otci zemřela asi v 6 letech maminka a starší bratr též zemřel. Děda zanechal mého otce u příbuzných v Evropě a posílal jim na výchovu peníze,ale za jakých podmínek tam žil nic nevěděl. V mladosti otec hrál za klub fotbal.V 30 . letech odešel za prací do HradecKrálové. Ve druhé světové válce byl v koncentračním táboře. Děda z Pittsburgh mu 2× zaplatil cestu do USA a pokaždé na to odejel někdo jiný. Děda měl zájem, aby se se synem opět setkal,což už se nikdy neuskutečnílo. Děda se znova oženil a měl velkou rodinu,ale stále podporoval mého tátu, jak mohl.
Můj táta se se svým otcem už nikdy neviděl,ale děda měl zájem o nás až do konce svého života. Dopisy,fotografie nám propojovaly naše životy. A to je asi tak vše, díky technice mohu nahlédnout do míst, kde žila,žije rodina ,kterou znám jen ze starých fotografií.
S pozdravem Eva. @@jamesmooney8933
Excellent photos. I am also a fan of post-modern new world dystopian synthesizer pop music!
Cleaning out an attic and found 17 automatic slide changers witch hold a proximity 30 photos each photos are of Pittsburgh PA and Canada from the 40s,50s, & 60s have not had a chance to view the photos yet but I'm really curious whether or not there's a market for such photos
Nice to see old pics of good old Forbes field I’m a big baseball fan and the pirates definitely had a lot of good and even great times but also really bad times at good old Forbes. People really have forgotten the pirates used to be a big respected organization. There’s still reminants of Forbes surviving to this day.
I have so many fond memories of the old Forbes field ...with my dad , grandfather and great grandfather
Nice video, but would it be possible in the future to add captions of where the pictures are of ?
I have lived in Pittsburgh all my life. I know almost half of the places. It really hasn't change all thar much.
1890s -1930s PITTSBURGH
@@YELLTELL over 90 neighborhoods in Pittsburgh dum dum
@Teegeeack Queen idk what you are talking about, but your the idiot that can't spell dumb......
Great pics, your music should be dumped iinto the river... Pittsburgh is a very old town started out as a French army fort, then British, then American, I think.. when construction of the new pnc ball park was being done, a couple of old pioneer houses where found buried in the mudd and they where from the 1700s.. great people great town.. ..
Interesting Pictures! I grew up around Pittsburgh and had some interesting visits when I was a Kid, I left about 40 Years ago, always like to see old Historical Pictures.
Traitor
Great old photos. Look how filthy the streets were, especially the smog from the steel mill. I've read that during the hey day of steel, the air was so bad with soot, professional people would change their shirts after lunch. I take this to be true as I grew up just south of Pittsburgh in the Wheeling area and I remember soot covered snow from the mill. That all changed with Nixon's EPA. Pittsburgh sure looks different today.
I believe some of those really dirty street photos were pictures of after the floods that used to happen quite often. You can see sandbags in some of them. This was before locks and dams were built upstream on the Allegheny River.
I grew up 16 miles west of Pittsburgh. It is so far away from what these pictures portray. I am 56 in 2 weeks. In the 1970s my family would travel to east suburbs and pass the steel mills and they weren’t even billowing smoke all that bad. In 1970s there was a renovation of the city. I went to the city consistently for work over 25 years and at all times it is clean. A Philly guy told me that Pittsburgh is clean compared to his city.
I visited Philly once as a child some 20 years ago amd the only thing i can remember are the liberty bell and the trash everywhere
My family started on upper 5th Avenue, then Sheridan and finally settled in Robinson Twp. I have no real childhood memories of 5th, but, in the sixties Sheridan was a child's paradise. Robinson was just too spread out.
Pittsburgh was already a clean, quaint city by 1984 yet philadelphia was full of litter in 1984.. pittsburgh seems like a mausoleum now. it only took about 10 years from 1975 to 1985 for pittsburgh to be a major city of importance to becoming a dying city and each 5 year period it only got worse and worse from 1985 onward.
@@dampergoldenrod4156 lots of transplants up here working so it isn’t a dying place at all.
The Mills weren't the main reason Pittsburgh was sooty. All the homes had coal burning furnaces and stoves, When THAT was outlawed is when it started clearing up
This is amazing! Thanks you so much for sharing. I had to pass this on to family and friends in Pittsburgh :D
Lady B thank you! I appreciate it!
1:38 is Forbes Field. AMAZING how all the fans are Men, and EVERY ONE wears a Hat.
The way god intended
@@YELLTELL Yes! Also, none of the hats are Baseball hats.
Didn't see any black men.🤫
@@penw3605 Seriously asshole? By looking at that picture you could tell there were no black people? You're being tested.
@@penw3605 Then you didn't actually look. One of the clearest faces looking straight at the camera is a black man. They were about 2% of the population, and preferred the Crawfords or Homestead Grays.
My Dad was born in Pittsburgh in 1925 at 2441 Sorrel Street, (still there on Google Earth) and graduated from Oliver High School up a few blocks on Marshall; then graduated from Clarion on the GI Bill; he was a WWII vet and served in the Pacific..... My Mum was born in 1928 on East Street (later torn down for a new highway). She is still with us at 94. My brother, sister and I were from, and lived on East Street for a few years, yet born in the hospital in Lawrenceville; I don't know why that is. We were raised in the most perfect place on earth; West Deer Township about 14 miles north of Pittsburgh. In the early years before some trees grew tall, we could see the colored lights on the Gulf Building from our front porch. Although we all moved away in the 1970's (except for our Dad), Pittsburgh will always be our 'home'....
Too bad they didn't title the areas we're looking at. But look at the soot! So glad it's been cleaned up for the health of the people. Pittsburgh is into a whole different industry today.
For anyone wondering why the streets look so torn up (even worse than today, LOL) Is many of these photos were taken by the city's official photographer, (An "office" that lasted into the 1970s' IIRC) as "work progress" photos. The streets shown are under construction/re-construction. The photos were to document the well...work progress.
My grandmother was born in 1905 and my mother in 1929. They may have been in some of these photos. 😊
12:43 I see the Kennywood arrow sign even though you can't make out what it says!
It was a very smoky city, not like when I lived/grew up there in the 70s and 80s.
Yes, I'm very familiar with this place, up until the 80s it was bad with soot.
Music was so horrible I had to mute it. Other than that I loved seeing such amazing pics of beautiful old buildings. Cities looked so much nicer back then
You can still find a lot of those buildings in Pittsburgh.
Thank you.. Dittos! Why do some CZcamsrs insist on adding unnecessary, obnoxious 'music' to ruin otherwise great videos....
Love the video but wtf on music man? How about some at least sort of old music?
Yinz are disrespectful for that music😭
Video quality was horrible, couldn't make out the names on any of the businesses. I'm from Pittsburgh and would be nice if the pics were clearer
At 6:09 in this video , You will see the Old Neville Island Bridge that was dismantled and floated down stream to Neville Island . it was blown up and replaced in the 80's.
I'm a proud to from PITTSBURGH.. What makes Pittsburgh all most unlike anywhere eles.. Is it PEOPLE.
I just found out I was still subscribed Let’s go
Joshua Gwyn good
The music was such a funny juxtaposition 😂
Some of these my great great uncle took (I think it was my great great uncle) his family has a whole stack of these they let me look through. Idk if they have the original photos but probably not
Cool
Vinman101 thanks!
@@momofilms4960 Thanks i used to fish the Mon when i was 12yrs old. Caught bass and catfish. I took my fishing gear and got on a street car from Dormont to the end of the Smithfield street Bridge and walked down to the parking areas at that time.There was a stairwell there at that time
Vinman101 that’s cool man. Things have changed I could imagine
Would help if these photos had titles and dates when taken. And what's with the soundtrack?
Awesome pics. Unbearable music.
❤️❤️
Wonderful photos - awful incidental music, but it's no problem as one can mute the audio. Thanks for doing this.
It would totally enhance the video if you had cations as to what we are seeing
Pls do dravosburgh it's a lil town outside of pittsburgh
Grew up just east of the Tubes in an old farmhouse, 1955. Later moved to the south side, just 1 blk from the terminal bldgs.
Would be helpful if the stills were much more sharp. Not your fault, tho.
Music is odd, very distracting. I turned off the audio.
Coca-Cola sign at 13:20 very cute.
At 14:35, is that an Isaly's store on the left? Cannot read the signs. Too blurred.
I've seen a lot of these pics on line and they are in perfect focus. What did you do to them to get them out of focus? I would rather go to Pittsburgh historic site pages and look at the pics at my own pace and not have to listen to that awful music. Then you can read about what is in the picture, too.
The scan resolution on so many of these photos is so poor, I’m at a loss to understand why you’d even bother.
Great pics, terrible music choice. I had to watch on mute.
Under each photo there should be the name of the street and what part of Pittsburgh.
Would be better if you included scene discrimination.
GREAT PHOTOS , BUT WRONG MUSIC ! YIKES !
I don't think you could have picked more out of place music lmao. Maybe on the next video of old pictures of Philadelphia you could play some Meshuggah.
I miss the burg
And these are known as the "good old days " ?
Could not watch due to the music.
Your volume control busted?
music ruins this. 12:11 beautiful building rising tall in the background i wonder when it was demolished as it's a newer building in this photo.
I have to mute to watch, terrible music but great historical pictures.
If tou dont mention the year and lication its pointless
No where near the number of cars in the streets compared to what we see today.
The musics very annoying
Where are all the fat people! Love the music!
The pics are very depressing, and the music definitely does not fit.
Many of these photos look "depressing" do to the seemingly awful street conditions, But here's a "fun fact" most of those photos were taken by the City's own photographer to document the progress street construction/reconstruction projects. That's why the streets look like hell. If you look near the sides of the streets, you will see stacks of brick, blocks ETC.
Pittsburgh today looks nothing like this. Clean modern city. Except the hoods are still the hoods.
"Its"
SPOILER ALERT: There is NO narration with this video. However, there is a God-awful musical soundtrack to it. PLEASE be warned that you will need to hit the MUTE button.
Since you don't own the rights, why did you steal them?
The music 🤦🏼
The slaves moved out if they could.
So many whackos complaining in the comments.
The music is annoying
Poor choice of music🤦♂️
Being honest some closed caption to maybe know what we're looking at . The Chinese music sucked . Nice pictures of whatever I couldn't say they were even all photos of Pittsvurgh
Pittsburgh was probably less miserable than NYC for turn of the century immigrants, when most people arrived. But the climate - like today - is pretty uncomfortable year round.
I like the music but not for this.
Still looks the same.
Stupid music to go with old Pittsburgh
Doesn't look that much different than Pittsburgh today. Buildings are the same.
Ummmmmm...... No
@@BritIronRebel
Well, I can see you've never spent anytime there.
@@wwalt7229 OK??? I only live there....
@@BritIronRebel Nice going, now I know where you live. Genius.
@@wwalt7229 As if I actually care. You're comment is still...... Nope.
Hey Alter,was soll die scheiss Musik, die macht ja die Dudes kirre,echt Mann.
Nice pictures. Your music sucks. Man it doesn't even match the time. I had to cut it short.....
Good pictures but I wish they were I.D.ed .
The music sucks.
Wondering why you always have such crappy music