{"id":2167,"date":"2013-01-03T13:01:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T13:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2015-01-08T17:31:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T22:31:34","slug":"clearing-snow-at-schenley-plaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2013\/01\/03\/clearing-snow-at-schenley-plaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearing snow at Schenley Plaza"},"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\\\/03\\\/clearing-snow-at-schenley-plaza\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:80752127}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 561px;\" data-original-width=\"800\" data-original-height=\"561\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 561px;\" data-original-width=\"800\" data-original-height=\"561\" > <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\/03\/clearing-snow-at-schenley-plaza\/attachment\/2168\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"796\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"557\"> <img data-attachment-id=\"2168\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/tumblr_mg0b9xWY0i1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1080,756\" 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_mg0b9xWY0i1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?fit=300%2C210&#038;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/tumblr_mg0b9xWY0i1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?fit=800%2C559&#038;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/tumblr_mg0b9xWY0i1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?w=796&#038;h=557&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"796\" height=\"557\" data-original-width=\"796\" data-original-height=\"557\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"\" alt=\"(Photo credit: Unknown)\" style=\"width: 796px; height: 557px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> (Photo credit: Unknown) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <\/div>\n<p><strong>Dec. 9, 1928:\u00a0<\/strong>When Pittsburgh got its first big snowfall of the season in late 1928, the Pittsburgh Press dutifully sent out a photographer to document efforts to clear the city\u2019s walkways.<\/p>\n<p>We discovered this picture in a folder labeled \u201cSchenley Park.\u201d It was published on a page with several other snow pictures \u2014 images of children sledding, and snow-covered trees. The newspaper clipping contains no information about where the picture was shot, but we believe it shows Schenley Plaza, and that the structure in the background is the Cathedral of Learning, then in the early stages of construction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The structure in the background is the Cathedral of Learning, then in the early stages of construction.<\/p>\n<p><a class='more-link' href='https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2013\/01\/03\/clearing-snow-at-schenley-plaza\/'>Look at the pictures<span class='screen-reader-text'>Clearing snow at Schenley Plaza<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2168,"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":[958,989,990,1052],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/tumblr_mg0b9xWY0i1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?fit=1080%2C756&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":2167,"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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