Old Guard and Bugle Corp performing in Point State Park

1969-09-28

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Old Guard and Bugle Corp performing in Point State Park

Title
Old Guard and Bugle Corp performing in Point State Park
Identifier
MSP285.B007.F11.I07
Source Identifier
MSP285.B007.F11.I07
Description
In the background is the Hilton Hotel (center), the first three Gateway Center Buildings (left), and the Portal Bridge (center), completed in 1963 and designed by architects Charles and Edward Stotz. During the mid-1940s, the Point was in an extreme state of deterioration. The area included freight yards, a terminal, largely unused railroad tracks, riverbanks littered with debris, and the grand Exhibition Hall that had held its last show in 1918. The Allegheny Conference on Community Development brokered pollution-control program in the 1940s explicitly influenced the decision of the Equitable Life Assurance Society to invest in planning the Gateway Center project, which led to the development of Point State Park. The park was completed in 1974 with the installment of the fountain.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Point State Park (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Gateway Center (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Hilton Hotel (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Portal Bridge (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
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
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