1/49.- Welcome to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
No matter how often you emerge from the Fort
Pitt tunnel, this view of Pittsburgh is always such
a complete and utter pleasant surprise. The city
seems to say, "Here I am and here I'll stay with or
without those steel mills". The more you get to
know Pittsburgh, the more its voice seems to add,
"And here I'll stay with or without those fancy
tall buildings some think I need in order to
survive".
But Pittsburgh isn't just a product of steel
mills whose capitalist owners sunbathed in the
perspiration of their workers; it has a softer side
where opera, dance and theater play their role.
Along with Iron City beer-drinking sport
enthusiasts who proudly proclaim their team the
greatest, are artists, writers, musicians and
actors who perform in the numerous theaters
scattered throughout the city. The innovative Flux
group produces "happenings' promoting experimental
art work, poetry and music. There is the technical
and scientific side of Pittsburgh as seen in the
research departments of its renowned universities
such as Carnegie-Mellon, Duquesne and the
University of Pittsburgh, and in its hospitals to
where patients from all over the world throng for
transplant operations. There is the religious side
of Pittsburgh with its Hindu temples, synagogues,
Islamic Center, churches of different denominations
sprouting up high, their steeples glistening in the
sun. Some are huge, like St. Pauls' and others are
small like St. Gregory's.
Pittsburgh is also home to Mr. Rogers, a
television hero for the 2-5 year old age group. If
you're traveling with children, the Carnegie Museum
of Natural History is high on the list of
must-go-to places. There, children from 1 to 101
will delight in the dinosaur exhibition.
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