{"id":100,"date":"2014-11-05T03:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/?p=100"},"modified":"2015-09-28T08:13:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T12:13:15","slug":"pittsburgh-fall-foliage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2014\/11\/05\/pittsburgh-fall-foliage\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh fall foliage (now in full color)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated, Sept. 23, 2015<\/strong>: Remember last year?<\/p>\n

It would be great to have a few decades-old fall Pittsburgh scenes in color, we said.<\/p>\n

What we wouldn’t give…<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, turns out, all we had to offer up were a few hours spent scanning another envelope of color negatives<\/a>.\u00a0Inside, several hundred images of color popped. Orange and red and yellow leaves, plus those bright\u00a0blue fall skies.<\/p>\n

Add in some late 1970s style, and it’s quite a collection.<\/p>\n

And, as always, if you have any idea beyond the first three images of the faces and places shown herein, we would love to hear your suggestions at socialmedia@post-gazette.com<\/a> or in the comments below. These images are forever held in plain envelopes with a topic, date and no other information.<\/p>\n

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Here, too, are those images from last year.<\/p>\n

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Oct. 16, 1983: Beth McElhaney, left, and Alicia Huntsinger, 9, of Bethel Park team up in their yard of leaves. (Harry Coughanour\/Post-Gazette) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Oct. 14, 1985: Joseph Medius, 6, props himself between two trees at Bird Park in Mt. Lebanon. (Darrell Sapp\/Post-Gazette) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Oct. 13, 1985: Emily Szylinski, 4, of Mt. Lebanon covered with leaves near Cochran Road. (Darrell Sapp\/Post-Gazette) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Oct. 13, 1985: Jared Henkel, 3, of Mt. Lebanon pushes leaves with his tractor. (Darrell Sapp\/Post-Gazette) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Oct. 16, 1984: Anna Maria Montano, 4, of Shadyside, lands softly from a Frick Park slide. (Bill Levis\/Post-Gazette) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Nov. 4, 1979: Myrle Kaye, of Bethel Park, examines a historical marker about Pitt’s 1787 founding. (Albert M. Herrmann Jr.\/The Pittsburgh Press) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Nov. 21, 1990: City Parks Department employee Tom Packard battles falling leaves in West Park on the North Side. (John Heller\/The Pittsburgh Press) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

Original post, Nov. 5, 2014:<\/strong> What we wouldn\u2019t give to have a few of these scenes in color.<\/p>\n

Two seasonally relevant photo folders exist in our archive. One is labeled \u201cFALL.\u201d The other was \u201cLEAVES.\u201d (We merged the two during research for this post)<\/p>\n

There were a few dozen photos between the two of them, but these are seven of our favorites. Besides the endearing joy obvious in each pictured child, it\u2019s the subtle details that make a few of these pop.<\/p>\n

The cigarette perfectly framed by the swirling leaves.<\/p>\n

The perfect backlight on the pair of young leaf rakers.<\/p>\n

The child old enough to leverage his frame between two trees while inspecting a leaf \u2014 though not quite old enough to tie his own shoes.<\/p>\n

And the angle at which the boy and his leaf-mowing tractor were captured.<\/p>\n

All of this reminds us at The Digs of why fall in Pittsburgh is a magical season. Even when it\u2019s in black and white.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What we wouldn\u2019t give to have a few of these scenes in color.<\/p>\n

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