To: Eagles6
From chimps to tea to slag...FR truly covers it all. Here's a good article about
Brown's Dump, fondly remembered as the slag heap. There was a drive-in not far away on Route 51 and you could either watch the movie or look out at the side windows and watch the orange glow as the cars dumped their cargo down the side.
11 posted on
08/30/2015 11:28:41 PM PDT by
re_nortex
(DP - that's what I like about Texas)
To: re_nortex
We could see the “glow” from our perch in Oakland of the slag dump that was just behind the eastern side of the Squirrel Hill tunnels. They have developed that area in 1/2 million dollar homes. Built on slag. It’s called Somerset.
I can remember “trips” out to Browns Dump to watch the dumping. It was kinda scary to me (I was little, but liked the soft serve ice cream we’d get along the way). The soft serve was quite the departure from the isalys we ALWAYS had (I grew up behind the BIG Isalys on the Boulevard of the Allies). UPMC has that property now.
39 posted on
08/31/2015 5:42:58 AM PDT by
PennsylvaniaMom
( Just because you are paranoid, it doesn't mean they aren't out to get you...)
To: re_nortex; silverleaf; This_far
Yes, the good old days when the Burg was an industrial power house. Now it’s a union, liberal hell hole coal and steel in the dumper.
51 posted on
08/31/2015 12:50:53 PM PDT by
Eagles6
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