The Pittsburgh Survey, 1914, Russell Sage Fdn., around page 124, has info about Skunk Hollow. It was in Bloomfield, below where the Bloomfield Bridge is, approximately, sort of below Ewing Street.

Also, that exhibition is great!

Thanks for passing along! But yes! Phenomenal stuff to see. The art is great, and John Kane had a fascinating story.

It's a great exhibit.

A few locals stopped the Greenfield Ave bridge from being named in Kane's honor. To those ancient bags of shit. Fuck you.

Really? What’s the story behind that?

Not much to tell. Proposal was put forth and the usual anti everything types raised a fuss.

http://gcapgh.org/2017/04/the-greenfield-bridge-keeps-its-name/

I didn't know that was proposed, he's buried in nearby Calvary Cemetery.

There is a picture of Skunk Hollow in Stefan Lorant's book "Pittsburgh: The Story of an American City." It was a wretched place.

One of my all-time favorite books. Have a copy right in front of me on the table, ironically enough. Will check it out now.

My favorite, too. There are hundreds of books about Pittsburgh, but this is the most comprehensive.

Not enough of us did. The meeting was 2pm on a Tuesday or something.

A real shame. The "Kane Bridge" sounds like Cambridge so it would have even sounded fancy.

Agree that it's a very good exhibit. I was there last week and learned a lot about life in Pittsburgh in the late 1800s-early 1900s for immigrant workers.

I think I'll just start calling it the John Kane Bridge, since Greenfield Bridge is not even official.

>NOTE: The bridge’s real name is the “Beechwood Boulevard Bridge,” nicknamed the Greenfield Bridge. The “Beechwood Boulevard” name was carved in stone (below) on the original bridge. These stones will be installed on the new bridge before it opens.

Let's do it. The John Kane Bridge it is.

There was a pretty significant chemical spill from a train derailment down there in the 1980s. I have some saved TV footage somewhere, but it's probably available on YouTube.