"You'd think that having a historical ad on a brick building would increase its value. "
"This is the best I can do with all of the highways around. "
"Up until about 1 year ago you could, but the brick has now been sandblasted for the new condo development there:
http://www.ottomilkcon..."
"I wonder if you can still read the Otto Milk sign today"
"This Fifth Ave instead of Try Street:
http://images.library...."
"Building #1709 and #1711 can be seen at left in the picture."
"The Otto Milk building helped to place this one!"
"Many of the streets have either changed names or been de-mapped. I simply search the street name in the link below, try to match the photo's year with the map's year, and then do a comparison from the old map to the present-day map:
http://images.library...."
"Thanks for helping out with these. The Mellon Arena makes it pretty hard to tag a lot of these Hill photos."
"Funny that it has a street sign even though you can't drive down it. Maybe that's why it's not on the map. "
"Jonathan, are there any resources you use to find street name changes? Having a comprehensive list of name changes of Pittsburgh streets would be very helpful to me as well as the Digital Research Library."
"Moved it back a bit so you can see the corner in Street View"
"With the hills, it looks like the Monongahela River. Maybe just past South Side Works?"
"Slocum Alley was between 11th and 12th:
http://images.library...."
"Epiphany and Logan is seen here:
http://images.library...."
"Laibman's was at #49 Logan:
http://digital.library..."
"Book Way is not on the map but is pictured on the street sign."
"Barbeau St is now Exchange Place:
http://images.library...."
"Gala Alley was just east of and parallel to Ross St:
http://images.library...."