"Building on right appears to be the same--if you go forward in Street View you can see the windows are now bricked in."
"According to this map:
the Bell Telephone Building was actually on Seventh between Montour and Cherry. I like that it's now the Verizon building--the more things change..."
"I think this is one of the best examples of how urban renewal transformed East Liberty. My first tag is for an accurate position, and the second is to give a little more context."
"Yep, I get that. The problem is that when I first saw this page, the pan didn't represent what Matt had tagged."
"Map has this as Heths, not Haights, but the houses match. (Also, couldn't get Street View to un-zoom.)"
"Don't think we'll ever get this totally nailed down, but this must be close--there's not much park north of Joncaire!"
"According to the caption written on the photo, it's a "spite" fence... it looks like they've gotten over their spite in the intervening years, however!"
"According to the caption written on the photo, it's a "spite" fence... it looks like they've gotten over their spite in the intervening years, however!"
"If you move forward in Street View you can see that the stone wall along the cemetery is now considerably lower relative to the road. I suppose the roadbed got raised at some point."
"The street view will only let me tag this on the trail and not second ave."
"The two intersections look very similar, but I think after looking at the street sign in the photo that this is actually the intersection of North Braddock and Thomas, one block away."
"No idea what G.P. & C. means.
If you've got a map that helps us with your tag feel free to link to in in a comment. "
"Hard to see from the topography how a house ever sat here, but the address lines up with this spot on the old plat maps, and the staircase does run to what was then Alexis Street. But what does "G.P. & C." mean?"
"Yes. The church was at the corner of S. Mathilda and Liberty. I vaguely remember it when I was a kid."
"According to the 1939 plat map this intersection was close to here. Amazing the contrast between this scene and Street View."
"According to the 1923 plat map, an L.M. Marks lived here, so I'm guessing this is right.
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"The photo is not quite at the intersection of Wilkins and Dallas, but it was taken looking towards that intersection. The high ground on the left is north side of wilkins; The houses on the far right are on Dallas."
"Was this once called Fort Pitt? It's now Beechwood. Church is the Pittsburgh Church of the Brethren."
