{"id":2135,"date":"2013-01-17T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2015-01-08T17:34:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T22:34:16","slug":"trolleys-on-fifth-avenue-in-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2013\/01\/17\/trolleys-on-fifth-avenue-in-oakland\/","title":{"rendered":"Trolleys on Fifth Avenue in Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"800\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\\\/thedigs\\\/2013\\\/01\\\/17\\\/trolleys-on-fifth-avenue-in-oakland\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:80752127}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 630px;\" data-original-width=\"800\" data-original-height=\"630\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 630px;\" data-original-width=\"800\" data-original-height=\"630\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2013\/01\/17\/trolleys-on-fifth-avenue-in-oakland\/attachment\/2136\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"796\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"626\"> <img data-attachment-id=\"2136\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/tumblr_mgq36sDIYQ1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1080,849\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/tumblr_mgq36sDIYQ1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?fit=300%2C235&#038;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/tumblr_mgq36sDIYQ1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?fit=800%2C628&#038;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/tumblr_mgq36sDIYQ1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?w=796&#038;h=626&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"796\" height=\"626\" data-original-width=\"796\" data-original-height=\"626\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"\" alt=\"(Photo credit: Unknown)\" style=\"width: 796px; height: 626px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> (Photo credit: Unknown) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <\/div>\n<p>Streetcars figured prominently in Pittsburgh\u2019s history and carried many students to classes at the University of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>This photograph, made in August of 1939, shows how streetcars dominated Fifth Avenue in Oakland. In the background is Mellon Institute, Heinz Memorial Chapel and Bellefield Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>During summer, when bridge work and road construction are in full swing, numerous detours make Pittsburgh seem like the world\u2019s biggest obstacle course.<\/p>\n<p>The summer of 1939 was especially trying for motorists and streetcar riders as construction crews worked to widen Fifth Avenue from University Place to Neville Street.<\/p>\n<p>During that year, trolley riders and motorists regularly encountered closed streets, torn up streetcar tracks and holes in the pavement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Streetcars figured prominently in Pittsburgh\u2019s history and carried many students to classes at the University of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p><a class='more-link' href='https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2013\/01\/17\/trolleys-on-fifth-avenue-in-oakland\/'>Look at the pictures<span class='screen-reader-text'>Trolleys on Fifth Avenue in Oakland<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[946],"tags":[959,1200,1197,989,1031,1049],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/tumblr_mgq36sDIYQ1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?fit=1080%2C849&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2035,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2013\/02\/20\/oakland-as-viewed-from-the-post-gazette-helicopter\/","url_meta":{"origin":2135,"position":0},"title":"Oakland as viewed from the Post-Gazette helicopter","date":"February 20, 2013","format":"gallery","excerpt":"The Post-Gazette helicopter? 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