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PITTSBURGH
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Where Ohio river gets his name. The "Golden
Triangle", and a walk through the valleys of the
Allegheny, Monongahela
and Youghiogheny reveals a dense mixture of industry,
work houses and railways. Coal, steel, aluminium, glass.
We are
at the beginning of XX Century, of course. Pittsburgh,
the old "Fort Pitt", was the "Steel
city". Barons of steel like Andrew Carnegie built up
the great companies like US Steel, Jones & Laughlin,
Pittsburgh Steel, National Steel . .
Alcoa, Westinghouse Electric, because no all was steel.
The incredible downtown: The "Golden Triangle",
the Strip, the South Side, the inclines, Union Station .
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A dense metropolitan area, from Connellsville to
McKeesport. From Latrobe to Aliquippa. From Carnegie to
New Kensignton.
Pittsburgh is today the commercial, educational and
cultural hub of Western Pennsylvania. An exciting
"new city" that
focuses in innovation, high tech, and also do not forget
his past, with the "Rivers of Steel National
Heritage Area" project.
© TEXT: Juan Vicente Santamarķa Gil. 2004
