#braddock

11 months ago

Braddock, PA "Road to Recovery". While it does look like Braddock is making strides to recover as a town. But after losing over 90% of its population, it is going to be a long road (but, again, it does look like they are on that road, and that is a good think). #murals #photography #braddock

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11 months ago

An abandoned church with the roof gone, and green vines covering most of the wall.

a close up of the broken front stained glass windows with some panels complete gone, showing the blue sky where it originally would have shown the ceiling of a church, if it still had a roof.

Losing 90% of your population over a century leaves wide areas of abandoned buildings or vacant lots where homes once were. One side effect of a mostly empty town is that Braddock has been used for some zombie and post-apocalypse movies #americana #braddock #photography #abandoned #zombie #church

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11 months ago

a statue of an angel stands in front of a gothic 9th century stone building.

Braddock contains the fist Andrew Carnegie Public Library in the US. Opened in 1889, eventually there would be over 1,680 libraries built. The library had a bathhouse for millworkers so they could clean up there before entering the facilities.
#americana #braddock #photography #Carnegie #library

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11 months ago

a sculpture of a steel worker bending solid rebar with his bare hands.

The main industry in Braddock was steel. And there is still an operating steel factory on the edge of town. The statue is of Joe Magarac, a mythical steelworker from local legend, a Paul Bunyan type. #americana #braddock #photography #statue #steel

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@billmillerart.bsky.social

11 months ago

Neon sign for Braddock showing steelworkers.

Braddock, PA - At its prime in the 1920s Braddock had a population of over 20,000 - but currently its population stands at less than 1,700. The population declined as industries left.
#americana #braddock #photography

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Bill Miller Linoleum Art

11 months ago

The Braddock Mill, 16” x 20” 2025

Vintage linoleum assemblage.
#braddock #steelmill #billmillerart

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Lens4anEye

@lens4aneye.bsky.social

11 months ago

Another Braddock Mural by Lens4anEye Another mural painted on the brick wall of a Braddock building. Braddock is a mill town in western Pennsylvania which has seen better times. It is now disappearing one building at a time. Even so, the...

www.clickasnap.com/image/11707529 New mural in #Braddock. Depicts a female welder. Braddock is/was a steelmill town in #Pittsburgh area. #urbanphotography #Photography #Lens4anEye

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John English

@jenglish90.bsky.social

1 year ago

Scenic St. Michael's

Sunny Day
Sweepin' the clouds away 🎶
#scenery #Pittsburgh #Homestead #Rankin #Braddock

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Fort Frick Photography

@fortfrickphoto.bsky.social

1 year ago

Golden Treasures in #Braddock with its new steel town girl mural (by Ashley Hodder) on the side. #Pittsburgh

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Lens4anEye

@lens4aneye.bsky.social

1 year ago

Vanishing Buildings by Lens4anEye Intersection in Braddock circa 2006. All of these buildings are now gone except the red roof church in the far background. {3371}

www.clickasnap.com/image/7916172 #urbanphotography #Lens4anEye #abandoned #photography #Braddock

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Lens4anEye

@lens4aneye.bsky.social

1 year ago

A Hopeful Mural by Lens4anEye A hopeful mural in Braddock, PA. The buildings in Braddock disappear almost daily, but their absence bring closer the renewal which will someday come to pass. {12238}

www.clickasnap.com/image/11373590
#Braddock ##urbanphotography ##mural #Lens4anEye

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1 year ago

General Braddock trade stamps used to promote Braddock businesses - late 1960s.

#braddock
#braddockchamberofcommerce
#generalbraddick
#braddockbusiness

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1 year ago

Edgar Thomson Steel Works commemorative plaque held by Braddock Carnegie Library.
#steel
#braddock
#edgarthomsonsteelworks
#ussteel
#braddockcarnegielibrary

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1 year ago

Edgar Thomson Works - 1875
#braddock
#edgarthomsonworks
#et
#steelmills

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1 year ago

AM radio station WLOA was licensed to Matta Broadcasting in February 1958. Studios were located at 1233 Braddock Avenue in Braddock, with the station signing on as WLOA-FM on June 1, 1959. Transmitter facilities were located on a hill just northeast of Braddock.
#braddock
#braddockhistory
#radio

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Daè

@justdae.bsky.social

1 year ago

Lived in New York and Dallas but there's no place like home. #braddock #photogtaphy

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1 year ago

Braddock General Hospital ward c.1960

#braddock
#braddockgeneralhospital
#braddockmedicalcenter
#upmcbraddock

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