Monday, October 10, 2016

The Strip District

Ryan, Wesley, Christian
Saturday, October 8th

It was a rainy Saturday morning but that did not diminish the awesomeness of the strip district. We met up around 10:30 to take the 54 bus outbound towards the strip. there were still decent amounts of people in the streets shopping at all the little shops and booths. the smells and sounds were all very overtaking, the architecture was very cool, and the streets were lively. collectively we agreed this was one of our coolest experiences so far in pittsburgh.


The first buildings we saw were run-down and old, but the architecture of them was cool

But as we moved down the street the buildings got newer and nicer

The Strip district is a cultural hub and contains shops of many different nationalities
(oriental)

(Polish)
(Vietnamese)

(Greek, Italian, Middle-Eastern)
(Thai)

(American)
(Mexican)

The Strip contained many cool stands and shops




fresh baked stuff


farmers markets


Steelers Stores on every corner!

Famous Pittsburgh restaurants






Street performers




Murals

Overall an up-and-coming area in the city

























Saturday, September 26, 2015

Welcome


Everyone must post. You can not cut and paste text from the web.  However, you are encouraged to explore the web, and the history of your particular neighborhood.  Just make certain that you give proper credit to your sources.  Always!  No plagiarism!

Further, there must be some sort of picture of everyone in your group.  So we know you all were there, of course!  Give us some cool snapshots of the neighborhood you visit as well.

You can choose any sort of style of posting you want. Just don't wrt in irtating txt spk. Be whimsical or be serious. Be a blogger. Tell us about your experience. Be formal or informal, chatty or classical. Whatever it takes. What impressions sit with you? What did you learn? What would be useful for someone to know?

Talk to someone in your assigned neighborhood. Talk to store owners.  Why not?  Ask them questions. How long have they been around? What are their histories? Their struggles? Get them talking. Why should anyone care? Find out. Talk to other people. Ask questions. Ask each other what questions you could ask. Look around. What do you want to know about? How come?

Be curious. Investigate. Come back and sell that neighborhood to the class. Help each other out. Help me out. Help yourselves out.

And have fun. Pittsburgh is without a doubt a really interesting up-and-coming vibrant city. Do it justice.