{"id":841,"date":"2014-03-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/?p=841"},"modified":"2015-01-09T15:51:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T20:51:24","slug":"pittsburgh-from-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2014\/03\/21\/pittsburgh-from-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh from the air"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"March <\/a>
March 10, 1983: View of Pittsburgh from the top of the U.S. Steel building. (Pittsburgh Press photo) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Aug. <\/a>
Aug. 9, 1972: View of Pittsburgh and the Hill District neighborhood, including the Civic Arena. (Stewart Love\/The Pittsburgh Press) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Aug. <\/a>
Aug. 9, 1972: View of Downtown Pittsburgh and the Golden Triangle. (Stewart Love\/The Pittsburgh Press) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"November <\/a>
November 1983: A view of the Pittsburgh skyline at dawn — not an aerial, but we wanted to include it just the same. (Donald J. Stetzer\/The Pittsburgh Press) <\/div> <\/div>
\"Aug. <\/a>
Aug. 9, 1972: The edge of Downtown Pittsburgh and Point State Park. (Dale Gleason\/Pittsburgh Press) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Aug. <\/a>
Aug. 9, 1972: Three Rivers Stadium, less than two months before Roberto Clemente earned his 3000th hit there. (Stewart Love\/The Pittsburgh Press) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Feb. <\/a>
Feb. 9, 1969: A view of Pittsburgh from Duquesne University and its Administration Building. (Pittsburgh Press photo) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

Pittsburgh\u2019s skyline is one of the most photogenic in the country. Day or night, images of the Golden Triangle\u2019s towers bordered by the city\u2019s rivers are striking.<\/p>\n

Even before the current set of skyscrapers went up, photographers loved taking images of Pittsburgh\u00a0from the air. For many of them, \u00a0Pittsburgh has always been about scale.<\/p>\n

We recently found at least seven folders in the PG\u2019s archive \u2014 from 1930 to the 2000s \u2014 packed full of beautiful images of Pittsburgh from elevated angles. We\u2019re sharing some of the best ones here.<\/p>\n

And over the next few months, we\u2019ll add more to this series.<\/p>\n

For now, enjoy this sequence of images that shows the city from high above. Many were taken by Pittsburgh Press photographer Stewart Love<\/a>, who was an expert in capturing such angles.<\/p>\n

The Pittsburgh Press claimed that Stewart Love was the newspaper\u2019s \u201caerial\u201d photographer. Love\u2019s pictures were published in publications such as Life, Time, Look and Saturday Evening Post. He made history with his camera and friends with his personality. \u201cStu,\u201d as Stewart Love was known among his friends, loved Pittsburgh. \u00a0Obviously, he was not the only one.<\/p>\n

Andrew Carnegie said, \u201cPittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy and cannot be torn out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wiz Khalifa echoed his statement a century later, \u201cJust growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it\u2019s like no other place.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Willie Stargell once said, \u201cI would always reserve a special place in my heart for Pittsburgh.\u201d<\/p>\n

And so would we, and we hope, our readers would, too.<\/p>\n

Do you love these photos? Purchase them on PG Store:<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh aerial\u00a01
\n<\/a>Pittsburgh aerial 2
\n<\/a>Pittsburgh aerial\u00a03
\n<\/a>Pittsburgh aerial\u00a04
\n<\/a>Pittsburgh aerial\u00a05
\n<\/a>Pittsburgh aerial\u00a06
\n<\/a>Pittsburgh aerial\u00a07<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pittsburgh\u2019s skyline is one of the most photogenic in the country.<\/p>\n

Look at the picturesPittsburgh from the air<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":842,"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":[975,971,1242,1192,1019,1029,1047],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tumblr_n2rdpa9BUd1rr5swxo3_1280.jpg?fit=1000%2C644&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":419,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2014\/07\/28\/pittsburgh-ballet-theatre-takes-to-the-streets\/","url_meta":{"origin":841,"position":0},"title":"Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre takes to the streets","date":"July 28, 2014","format":"gallery","excerpt":"These six photos stood out because of the settings.","rel":"","context":"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n9ci2dtIFK1rr5swxo6_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C935&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2233,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2012\/12\/04\/fog-on-pittsburgh\/","url_meta":{"origin":841,"position":1},"title":"Fog on Pittsburgh","date":"December 4, 2012","format":"gallery","excerpt":"A striking image by photographer Clyde Hare.","rel":"","context":"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tumblr_meex1r2bJQ1rr5swxo1_400.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2278,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2012\/11\/16\/hill-district-at-night\/","url_meta":{"origin":841,"position":2},"title":"Hill District at night","date":"November 16, 2012","format":"gallery","excerpt":"Silhouetted in the foreground is the 229-foot tall tower of the historic Allegheny County courthouse.","rel":"","context":"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tumblr_mdjy2vrPtm1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C965&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2014\/12\/10\/pittsburgh-a-foggy-city\/","url_meta":{"origin":841,"position":3},"title":"Pittsburgh, a foggy city","date":"December 10, 2014","format":"gallery","excerpt":"\"That must have been before Pittsburgh was here.\"","rel":"","context":"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tumblr_ngc3dpnIHc1rr5swxo3_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C717&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":22,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2014\/12\/05\/dec-10-1969-three-rivers-stadiums-steel\/","url_meta":{"origin":841,"position":4},"title":"Three Rivers Stadium\u2019s steel","date":"December 5, 2014","format":"gallery","excerpt":"On the materials that went into Three Rivers Stadium: where it all came from, and where it is today.","rel":"","context":"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tumblr_ng2y1lF6Zx1rr5swxo3_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C872&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6700,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2016\/04\/13\/pittsburgh-from-the-sky-before-the-renaissance\/","url_meta":{"origin":841,"position":5},"title":"Pittsburgh from the sky, before the Renaissance","date":"April 13, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Stewart Love's arial photographs show a crowded city with sometimes surprisingly clean air.","rel":"","context":"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Digs.aerialNorthSide.jpg?fit=1200%2C846&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4017,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/4017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}