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69 Squirrel Hill Streetcar

August 7, 1945

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69 Squirrel Hill Streetcar
  • Title
  • 69 Squirrel Hill Streetcar
  • Creator
  • Pittsburgh (Pa.). City Photographer
  • Date
  • August 7, 1945
  • Identifier
  • 715.4572654.CP
  • Description
  • Forbes Avenue at Atwood Street, looking south, shows the streetcar stop on August 7, 1945. Signs for Chronis Flowers, Gammon's, Price's Dress Shop, and The Strand Theater and Bowling Alley are visible. The left side of the street features the Iroquois Apartments, designed by Frederick Osterling, and the Flannery Building (formerly the Vanadium Building). The 69 streetcar, number 1071, visible on the left, ran every 15 minutes between Downtown along Forbes Avenue to Murray Avenue passing through Squirrel Hill and stopping on Hazelwood Avenue in Hazelwood. Traffic on Forbes Avenue was two-way until the summer of 1972.
  • Extent
  • 5 x 7 in.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Signs and signboards
    Street-railroads
    Restaurants
    Streets
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Oakland (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection, 1901-2000
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection
  • Rights Information
  • No Copyright - United States. The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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