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Pittsburgh Series

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Italian family winemaking tradition

People buy grapes at the Strip's wholesale distributors to keep alive the family tradition of winemaking

Creating Community: Family traditions

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Family restaurants in the Strip District

Days begin early in the Strip where trucks make deliveries in the early morning darkness. DeLuca's and JoJo's Restaurants have become favorite early morning eateries.

Creating Community: family business

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Long shot panning from Downtown along the river

The Strip District

The Strip District runs from Downtown to Lawrenceville, though 16^th to 23^rd Streets are the shopping district, full of thriving retail shops that began evolving from the mid-1970s from wholesale businesses.

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Men in green jacket unloading white van

Pennsylvania Macaroni Company and Sunseri Brothers, mainly a wholesale distributors, both have retail stores that sell produce, pasta, breads, cheeses, and Italian specialties.

Creating Community: business

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B&W of Peoples' Baths

In the Smoky City days the Strip was a place of heavy manufacturing: munitions, steel, cork; aluminum, and machines.

SP06

Looking down Liberty Ave.

Redzone on Liberty manufactures robots to cleanup hazardous zone in a building where Westinghouse Airbrake started.

SP07

Enrico Biscotti sign

The Enrico Biscotti Company makes about 21 flavors of biscotti on the premises.

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Sidewalk grill along Penn Ave. serves BBQ chicken, pork, lamb, ribs; hot sausage sandwiches.

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Peanuts roast outside Prestogeorge where inside salads, soups, sandwiches are for sale. Their speciality is hand-roasted coffee.

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Mike Fineberg sign

Mike Feinberg's Party Store sells novelties, general merchandise and sports-related items.

Wholesale and retail Sales

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Red brick building

Across Smallman Street from each other are the Society for Contemporary Crafts, a gallery and showroom for today's American craftspeople and an African gallery with crafts from Nigeria.

The Arts

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Woman in babushka on street

Parma sausage on Penn Avenue is a 4^th generation business making sausage, salamis, of all kinds.

Wholesale, retail and prepared food

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Benkowitz sign

Two seafood companies--Nordic Fisheries and Wholeys--supply most of the area's restaurants with seafood and sell fish sandwiches and an amazing variety of fresh seafood at their retail stores.

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Jim Krenn in black leather jacket

People raised in Strip remember the days when it included a residential area. An old1920s-era pharmacy that has been closed for 20 years remains intact inside.

Creating Community: Neighborhoods and churches

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B&W family portraits

St Patrick's-St Stanislau parishes merged to meet at St Stanislaus Kostka at the corner of Smallman and 21^st where they keep the original traditions of the Slovak, the Irish and the Polish.

Bridges and Buildings

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Red brick terminal building

The Produce Terminal is active at night when its fresh fruit and vegetables are bought by restaurateurs and people in all aspects of the food business. Railroad cars used to bring in the produce at Smallman Street.

Creating Community: business

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Man in blue t-shirt at counter

The Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania's John Heinz Regional History Center, housed in the old Chatauqua Ice Company Building is researching some of the older buildings nearby. The Italian Oven Building was an old Presbyterian church, possibly the oldest in Pittsburgh. The Standard Underground Cable building running the length of the block from 16^th to 17^th streets still has its old industrial sash windows intact.

Bridges and Buildings: reuse

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Primantis' Restaurant is where Pittsburghers go for a late night sandwich and the truckers go for an early morning bite.

Creating Community

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