VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

Holyoke

 

Pittsburgh, PA - Traffic running under Diamond Market, c. 1960. At the time it was developed, planners saw the traffic throughway as a solution to creating space for both cars and commerce. From the Detre Library & Archives at the Heinz History Center.

 

Pittsburgh, PA - Market Square Park, July 1964. The footprint of the old Diamond Market can still clearly be seen in the park’s layout of four separate quadrants. From the Allegheny Conference on Community Development photographs, MSP 285, Detre Library & Archives at the Heinz History Center.

 

Opening ad for Johnny Garneau’s Smorgasbord in Monroeville. Pittsburgh Press, Nov. 7, 1958.



The original all-in-one sneeze guard table at Johnny Garneau’s Smorgasbord when it opened in Monroeville, 1958. Gift of Barbara Garneau Kelley.



If you grew up in Western Pennsylvania from the 1950s to ’80s, Johnny Garneau’s Smorgasbords were the name in buffet restaurants. The challenge—then and now—is that customers can be careless with good hygiene around all that food. More than 60 years ago, Garneau took a big step to resolve that when he patented a sneeze guard, the angled plate of glass or plexiglass that shields your food from others’ airborne germs.

 

All those 300” Windsors…….

 

A newspaper ad announced the opening of Pittsburgh’s terminal, March 13, 1937. The image was similar to the final building, though a bit more idealized. Newspapers.com, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

 

Greyhound’s new Bus Depot at 1010 Liberty Ave. near the intersection with Grant, 1929, in the former Lafayette Hotel.

 

In 1959, Pittsburgh’s streamlined bus station was replaced by this larger depot across the intersection, itself replaced by the current station in 2008. Courtesy of Frank Wrenick.

 

There goes another pair of shorts , stained from this moment on !

 

Wall sign in Pittsburgh advertising Duquesne Pilsener and Silver Top beer, 1940s. McBride Sign Company Collection, Detre Library & Archives at the History Center.



This Duquesne Pilsener billboard once dominated the street scene along Sixth Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh, August 1947. Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection, Archives Service Center – University of Pittsburgh.

 

Enjoying the "Paper City" photos, thanks.

 

Having grown up in Turtle Creek, Johnny Garneau's was only a couple of miles away. I remember it well.

 

I can remember going to the Stockholm Restaurant in NYC when I was a kid. They had the same Smorgasborg setting as on the Ocean Liner Stockholm. All you could eat, but only one Lobster.

Paul in CT