{"id":2164,"date":"2013-01-04T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/?p=2164"},"modified":"2015-01-08T17:31:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T22:31:27","slug":"travelers-flock-to-penn-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2013\/01\/04\/travelers-flock-to-penn-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelers flock to Penn Station"},"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\\\/04\\\/travelers-flock-to-penn-station\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:80752127}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 999px;\" data-original-width=\"800\" data-original-height=\"999\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 999px;\" data-original-width=\"800\" data-original-height=\"999\" > <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\/04\/travelers-flock-to-penn-station\/attachment\/2165\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"796\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"995\"> <img data-attachment-id=\"2165\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/tumblr_mg2fg10beL1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"864,1080\" 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_mg2fg10beL1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?fit=240%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/tumblr_mg2fg10beL1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?fit=800%2C1000&#038;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/tumblr_mg2fg10beL1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?w=796&#038;h=995&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"796\" height=\"995\" data-original-width=\"796\" data-original-height=\"995\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"\" alt=\"(Photo credit: Unknown)\" style=\"width: 796px; height: 995px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> (Photo credit: Unknown) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <\/div>\n<p><strong>Circa 1903:\u00a0<\/strong>We at the Digs like to imagine the experience of arriving in Pittsburgh when the city was a growing industrial center. Certainly it was a smoky and smelly place, but Pittsburgh also offered grandeur rarely found outside New York or Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania Station, designed by the great urban architect Daniel Burnham, is one example. Travelers who arrived by train had the experience of walking through the station\u2019s stunning concourse and rotunda. (You can see an interactive picture of what the rotunda looks like today at our <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.post-gazette.com\/Revolution\/panos\/20130104_Rotunda\/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Revolution page<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The station is known to Pittsburghers as Penn Station and was completed in 1903 \u2014 we suspect this picture was made shortly after its opening. In the mid-1980s, Pennsylvania Station was converted to apartments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The station is known to Pittsburghers as Penn Station and was completed in 1903.<\/p>\n<p><a class='more-link' href='https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2013\/01\/04\/travelers-flock-to-penn-station\/'>Look at the pictures<span class='screen-reader-text'>Travelers flock to Penn Station<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2165,"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":[945],"tags":[956,972,1208,1038,1049],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/tumblr_mg2fg10beL1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?fit=864%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":314,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2014\/08\/29\/pennsylvania-railroad-station-the-pennsylvanian-union-station-penn-station\/","url_meta":{"origin":2164,"position":0},"title":"Pennsylvania Railroad Station aka The Pennsylvanian aka Union Station aka Penn Station","date":"August 29, 2014","format":"gallery","excerpt":"The station at 10th Street and Liberty Avenue began its operation on October 12, 1901.","rel":"","context":"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tumblr_nb1fjaHLO11rr5swxo4_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C947&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2666,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2012\/08\/07\/oct-31-1980-ronald-reagan-visits-pittsburgh\/","url_meta":{"origin":2164,"position":1},"title":"Reagan campaigns in Pittsburgh in 1980","date":"August 7, 2012","format":"gallery","excerpt":"On that Halloween in 1980 Reagan spoke at a Station Square rally on the South Side, accompanied by Sens. 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