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Post by Flashy Ross on Feb 6, 2009 9:54:39 GMT -5
It all depends what hospital she works at.
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Post by bertokhadafi on Feb 6, 2009 11:17:04 GMT -5
My girlfriend and I want to move to Bloomfield when our lease is up here in Sewickley. I hate being a yuppie. Yuppie "young urban professional" theoretically you would be more of one in Bloomfield than Sewickley. |
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Post by Razberry on Feb 6, 2009 11:48:38 GMT -5
Fuck Erik.
Scratch all that. I'm not gonna be able to make it to the show tonite!
I just got 2 tickets to the Pens game!
I hope it's an awesome time, which I'm sure it will be. Have fun, everyone who's going!
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Post by howlerscoyotecafe on Feb 6, 2009 12:01:06 GMT -5
we live in morningside. so many people don't know that it exists. i really like the fact that it's still the city but it's quiet and laid back. we're so close to everything. it takes only a few minutes by bike to get to lawrenceville, squirrel hill, oakland, and shadyside. and there is only one vesuvio's, and it's in beaver county. they make excellent 'za. the pizza sola in penn circle is just as good as the one on carson. I grew up in Morningside.. its a very wierd place. Its kind of funny to me to see it becoming "cool" all of a sudden. Gonna be interesting in the next couple years to watch that neighborhood change from "family" neighborhood to "hipsters" and younger people. |
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Post by samuraidan on Feb 6, 2009 12:02:31 GMT -5
My girlfriend and I want to move to Bloomfield when our lease is up here in Sewickley. I hate being a yuppie. Yuppie "young urban professional" theoretically you would be more of one in Bloomfield than Sewickley. the term Yuppie proliferating to the point where it now is more commonly associated with suburbanites, or, like, close to the opposite of what the abbreviation actually means, is one of my favorite things. i don't know why. |
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Post by Razberry on Feb 6, 2009 12:10:54 GMT -5
we live in morningside. so many people don't know that it exists. i really like the fact that it's still the city but it's quiet and laid back. we're so close to everything. it takes only a few minutes by bike to get to lawrenceville, squirrel hill, oakland, and shadyside. and there is only one vesuvio's, and it's in beaver county. they make excellent 'za. the pizza sola in penn circle is just as good as the one on carson. An ex-coworker lived there and it was really cute. She had a nice house and it seemed like all the neighbors knew each other. Shit, I can't remember what street she lives on though.  |
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Post by bertokhadafi on Feb 6, 2009 12:10:58 GMT -5
Suburbs are an extension of urban culture and sprawl. I mean a hundred years ago Sewickley might not have been considered a suburb but a small town independant economicaly from pittsburgh. I guess technically it is still but because its linked to PGH it works as a suburb.
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Post by Flashy Ross on Feb 6, 2009 13:58:21 GMT -5
My girlfriend and I want to move to Bloomfield when our lease is up here in Sewickley. I hate being a yuppie. Yuppie "young urban professional" theoretically you would be more of one in Bloomfield than Sewickley. Whatever it is, I'm rich, and I drive a Lexus. |
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Post by stef on Feb 6, 2009 17:33:27 GMT -5
we live in morningside. so many people don't know that it exists. i really like the fact that it's still the city but it's quiet and laid back. we're so close to everything. it takes only a few minutes by bike to get to lawrenceville, squirrel hill, oakland, and shadyside. and there is only one vesuvio's, and it's in beaver county. they make excellent 'za. the pizza sola in penn circle is just as good as the one on carson. I grew up in Morningside.. its a very wierd place. Its kind of funny to me to see it becoming "cool" all of a sudden. Gonna be interesting in the next couple years to watch that neighborhood change from "family" neighborhood to "hipsters" and younger people. which street did you grow up on? we're on chislett right across the street from st. raph school. i really hope it doesn't become overpopulated with hipsters (we just moved from lawrenceville). i think i've seen one or two waiting for a bus in the morning, but there's lots of old italians and jews here still, as well as younger families. |
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Post by howlerscoyotecafe on Feb 7, 2009 3:57:33 GMT -5
I grew up in Morningside.. its a very wierd place. Its kind of funny to me to see it becoming "cool" all of a sudden. Gonna be interesting in the next couple years to watch that neighborhood change from "family" neighborhood to "hipsters" and younger people. which street did you grow up on? we're on chislett right across the street from st. raph school. i really hope it doesn't become overpopulated with hipsters (we just moved from lawrenceville). i think i've seen one or two waiting for a bus in the morning, but there's lots of old italians and jews here still, as well as younger families. I come from a family that was one of the first families of Morningside (my mother's family). I know the history of that neighborhood like the back of my hand.. Up until the last maybe, 5-6 yrs, that place kept very much to themselves and made every effort to make sure they were "not well known" to the rest of the city. I could tell some stories about that place.. It was originally part of the King/Mellon Estate and mostly still farmland until the late 20'-early30s. It then became a "lace curtain irish" community as the Kings/Mellons sold off parcels to the parish. Gallagher Hall that the St. Ray's kids still use as their gym was the original church. Many of the families that had immigrated in the late 1800s early 1900s that had businesses in Garfield/The Strip bought plots and built homes there. My Mother's family had one of those big houses at the top of Hampton Hill behind the church and is really on the line between Morningside/Highland Park. I spent 8 years at St. Rays before I went to St. Pauls for High School. I can remember being a 6 or 7 yr old and hearing father Doyle RANTING from the pulpit in church about how it was going to be the downfall of Morningside if we let the "Italians" move into the neighborhood that were moving in from Larimor Ave. It eventually became a predominantly Italian neighborhood and the St. Rocco's festival every year is still a big deal. ( Honestly as a child I had no idea what these "Italians" were. I thought that they must have two heads or something awful the way Father Doyle and my grand-da described them. That was until I found out that my best friend, Concetta Silvaggio,was one of them.)My sister still lives over there on Jancey. I got out as soon as I could. There was a very strange vibe to that neighborhood when I was growing up that I wanted no part of. I've found it highly amusing that the younger set is now just "discovering" Morningside and making it cool. |
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Post by stef on Feb 7, 2009 8:44:51 GMT -5
that's pretty cool that you know so much about this neighborhood. i had no clue that the irish were here first! i am curious as to who lived in my house, who built it, etc. as far as i know, some realtors flipped this house several years ago and sold it to the people who lived here about 2 years before we bought it. i looked at the county assessment site, and there is an old picture of this house before it was flipped, and it looked pretty run down. i think one of my neighbors said that no one lived in it for a period of time before the realtors got it. it looks much better today. we were quite busy with the move in and other things this summer, so we don't know the neighbors too well. the week we moved in, a ton of people were friendly and were introducing themselves, but i forget all of their names. i guess there's a bocci ball league around here still going strong. one of my best friend's dad grew up in a house down the street (the hoffmans).
i kinda wish that we would have waited and bought one of those big houses on hampton. every time i drive into my neighborhood i look at how pretty they are. none are for sale, though.
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Post by howlerscoyotecafe on Feb 7, 2009 13:43:31 GMT -5
Hmmm, I'm trying to remember, the houses directly across the street from the school when I was a kid.
There was, the Kellys, the Acres house, shit.. I can't remember the name of the people on the other side.. that row of homes seemed to see the most turn over.
Most of the Morningside "families" when I was a kid, kept homes inside the family. But the ones on that row across the street from the school/church were some of the first ones that were rentals. I know a few of them had families with no kids that wanted to stay and keep the homes.
I can remember when I was in maybe 7th Grade, the city wanted to clear a direct road from Garfield Heights at the top of Black Street through those woods that would have created a direct road into Morningside from there...
The people of Morningside freaked, and put a quick stop to it. They DID NOT want anyone from those projects at the top of Black St. having any kind of direct access into Morningside.
What is now the Zoo parking lot was a big auto pound, from behind the field at the top of Anteidum you could get into those woods (the "hollow" to us) and come out at Kings Estate, behind the church, get in the zoo or get down to the river from some old tunnels that went under that auto pound from the Kings Estate. It was a favorite target for the kids that wanted to steal auto parts to fix cars.
We also used to play some insane games of capture the flag and hide & seek in that auto pound. Its a wonder we didn't kill ourselves.
The cool thing about growing up in Morningside is that it was/is one of those neighborhoods that, while in the middle of the city, still has that "small town" feel to it. Everyone knew everyone, everyone looked out for each other and each other's kids. There were up sides and down sides to this, but on the whole, it wasn't a bad place to be a kid.
I like seeng young people move in there and that new stuff that's going in over there like coffee shops and the new bar where Stagno's Bakery usued to be (before it was Stagno's it was an old "malt shop", I have a picture of my mother and her friends standing in front of it all wearing pink leather jackets in like 1955 looking like something right out of a James Dean movie), but at the same time, I'd hate to see it lose that "comunity feel" and become too "hip".
My little 5 yr old granddaughter had her first year as a cheerleader there this year.. I was at the field for the first time in years. I remember the field being the big center of activity when I was young. The fieldhouse was always open to everyone with stuff going on..
Its changed.
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Post by stef on Feb 7, 2009 19:35:28 GMT -5
thanks for the little bit of history. i need to see if i can find some sort of book all about this neighborhood. there are many about other parts of the city, i'm sure of it. and it does feel like a small town inside the city. that's why we love it so much. SO much different than living in lawrenceville.
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Post by Flashy Ross on Feb 8, 2009 20:04:23 GMT -5
If I read the word "hip" one more time in this thread I'm going to throw up.
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Post by stef on Feb 9, 2009 19:29:35 GMT -5
i am gonna throw up down your throat.
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