Downtown Pittsburgh Street Scene | Historic Pittsburgh

1945/1955

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Title
Downtown Pittsburgh Street Scene
Creator
Judge of Good Pictures
Identifier
MSP285.B022.F09.I03
Source Identifier
MSP285.B022.F09.I03
Description
The intersection of Fifth Avenue and West Diamond Street in downtown Pittsburgh. Notice the trolley car tracks on the street. Pittsburgh built the third largest trolley car fleet, at 666 cars, in North America during the mid-1940s until the early 1950s. At its peak, the Pittsburgh Railways Company operated a streetcar and network of tracks comprising more than 600 miles. In the summer of 1953 trolley car service was scaled back to the border of Allegheny County. In 1968 the Port Authority was operating just 58 miles of track. On September 4, 1999, the last regular trolley car service made its final run. The three remaining functional trolley cars, all having logged well over two million miles, were donated to trolley museums.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Fifth Avenue (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
West Diamond Street (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Rhea's Bakery (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Standard Typewriter Company (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Douglas Shoes (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Ritz Theater (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Richman's Clothing Store (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Buildings--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Source
Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
Contributor
Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
Collection
Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
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