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Frankstown Avenue in East Liberty

1956

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Frankstown Avenue in East Liberty
  • Title
  • Frankstown Avenue in East Liberty
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B022.F23.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B022.F23.I01
  • Description
  • A view at the intersection of Hamilton and Frankstown Avenues in Pittsburgh’s East Liberty neighborhood. The neighborhood became known as Pittsburgh’s “Classic East End” shortly following its annexation by the City of Pittsburgh in 1868. One of the United State's finest horse racetracks was located in this neighborhood at Larimer and Paulson Streets. By 1920 the area included seven movie theaters along Penn and Highland Avenues, grocery, drug, furniture, jewelry, and shoe stores making it a major retail center rivaling even Pittsburgh. An influx of immigrants including Germans, Italians, Greeks, Jews, and African-Americans moved into the neighborhood contributing to its growth and success. In the early 1960s many buildings were razed as part of a renewal program that invested about $100 million in public and private funds to build a pedestrian shopping mall. The shopping mall project, designed to revitalize the local retail market, failed to meet its expectations and as a result East Liberty went into decline.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Frankstown Avenue (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Hamilton Avenue (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    East Liberty (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Hamilton Market (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Jimmie's Shoe Shine (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Frankstown Market (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Al Seeward Farm Poultry (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Sam's Sandwich Shop (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Commercial 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
  • Rights Information
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