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QuoteThere was an article in the Post Gazette recently titled “Erosion of Downtown retail was predictable” and this quote says it all:
Today, entire generations of Pittsburghers have grown up without Downtown as a point of reference for shopping excursions.
Thoughts?
Although fewer in number, a whole generation has grown up with the Pirates sucking.
I can remember back in the 1970s taking the bus downtown to go to the doctor at the Jenkins Arcade (which was not an arcade, dammit) and then being given free time while my mom shopped and going to the electronics store that was underground up 5th Ave. from what was then the Warner Theater (not Warner Centre).
I can vaguely remember when Saks sat on top of Horne's. Vaguely.
My mom never set foot in any mall. Would not go to the burbs. Too far to shop (and she's right – we could get downtown from Point Breeze faster on a bus than it took to drive to Monroeville Mall). Shopping downtown was better, and more fun. But for teenagers, going to the mall was pretty awesome.
You could not get stoned in the Parkway Cinemas the way you could get stoned in the balcony of the Warner Theater, though.
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