Pittsburgh

Outstanding Memories of Pittsburgh …

Two mighty rivers coming together as one, as I stand on the point of confluence and look across at the towboat crews and yachters sunning themselves between the two stadiums.

Seventy-five thousand tiara-topped, pink-clad, teeny boppers milling about as they stream toward their evening with Taylor Swift.

“Hop On, Hop Off” bus tour guides making sure we know where every scene of Flashdance was filmed, pathetic in their attempt to make us forget that Philadelphia has all of the fame and fortune related to the Rocky movie franchise.

Pittsburgh Steel, Pittsburgh Plate Glass, Alcoa, and medical and financial institutes all vying for attention to their ‘unique’ skyscrapers.

Cool convention center with cascading water from the Great Wisconsin Aquifer flowing down a twisting path from City Side to Waterside.

Restaurants and bars with customers spilling out onto the sidewalks until the strong thunderstorms force them to scurry crablike back to the bowels of the buildings.

Christian Tetzlaff playing an exquisite Beethoven Concerto for Violin, for which he was rewarded with four curtain calls and then gave us an encore for our trouble.

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, four soloists and a chorus of 125 performing the finest Beethoven’s Ninth I’ve ever heard.  They took to heart the Ode to Joy and played and sang with élan.

Pittsburgh has more bridges than Venice. They eat a sandwich that has cole slaw on one slice of bread and French fries on the other and in between stacks of cheese and meat. Andy Warhol and Mr. Rogers were born in the same town in the same year and they both have museums to honor them.  Here are some more fun facts about this great city.

All and all it was a great visit and it is a city that I would visit again.  Happy Flag Day.  Cindy and Wm