Monday, May 26, 2008

pittsburgh - the strip

saturday night we went to the cubs game. i didn't take photos. pnc is a nice park and they have good nachos. but no photos for you.


sunday morning we went to the strip district. it's an old warehouse district that's been turned into shops & restaurants. i love those types of areas.


so we had breakfast at de luca's - the self-proclaimed home of the best breakfast in town. actually, they've apparently won several awards for their breakfast. and it was tasty. i had these pumpkin hotcakes ... fabulous. small place with what i'm guessing are all the original fixtures. personally i thought it was a little pricey for breakfast, but it was worth it.


after breakfast we roamed along penn avenue for awhile. figured walking off the breakfast sounded better than sitting in a car for 8 hours on a belly full of pancakes (or in bethy's case, cinnamon french toast).


i love signs painted on sides of brick buildings.


this li'l awning was attached to an italian cafe with an upstairs patio. you can see it in the upper right corner. i want to eat on that patio. it was filled with round tables, alternating green & red umbrellas. nice.


i think enrico was the biscotti place. this fabulous sign was above this little walkway/alley between the buildings.


i don't know. the stoplight was on a short pole making it easy to photograph. so i did. it just seemed right.


aren't you glad i take photos of walkways? :) this was the doorway into a little shop where a local artist was selling earrings displayed on paint sample cards. yes, of all the things in the store, i remember the paint sample cards. it was a cute idea.


doesn't mr. graffiti man look pleasant?


i just noticed this photos says "fed up" down in the left corner. it's the building next to the one in the last photo.


this was an old milk ... factory? i'm not sure. the sign on the top (which i don't have a photo of) was something milk. otto milk, maybe? i don't remember. but it's the last of the "look at that!" photos we sought out while thinking about heading home. lynn has better photos of this building for sure. her father was a milk man.

but no, not for otto milk.

and, in classy 'becca style, the girls who made it all happen ...


bethy in the de luca's window.


lynn's "taking a photo" shadow.


me in the penn mac window. i do love reflective surfaces. :)


bethy & i by the car. i don't have one of all three of us on my camera. i'll get one from lynn & post it later. tomorrow you get photos from the ride home. seriously, you haven't seen enough pittsburgh yet, have you?

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Blogger Unknown said...

looks like you guys had a great time :)

5/27/08, 1:14 PM  

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