Rick Sebak – Ruth E. Hendricks Photography

A Pittsburgh Wall We Know and Love (and a Couple of our Regular Retaining Walls)

A very special wall– Forbes Field.

The remains.

Forbes Field is long gone (1972)

-but the wall where the1960 World Series was won by Bill Mazeroski’s homerun stands.

It’s called the Greatest Homerun Ever. You can watch it at YouTube here

And the retaining walls of Pittsburgh are featured prominently in Rick Sebak‘s excellent video 25 Things I Like About Pittsburgh available for viewing on Youtube for a short time.

You can’t believe how many retaining walls there are in every neighborhood of the city.

Duquesne U on Top

March 19, 2015 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Pittsburgh PhotographyTags: 25 Things I Like About Pittsburgh, Baseball, Duquesne University, Forbes Fields, homerun, Oakland, photography, Pittsburgh PA, Pittsburgh Pirates, postaday, retaining wall, Rick Sebak, travel 4 Comments

Oram’s Donuts in Joe Namath’s Hometown – Beaver Falls, PA

More than a decade ago I saw a show narrated by Rick Sebak on PBS about Oram’s Bakery in Beaver Falls, PA. Beaver Falls is about 35 miles Northwest of the city and is on the Beaver River. ( I just looked it up and the show was out in 1999)

Their cinnamon rolls are their most popular donut, and they appeared to be the size of dinner plates. Well, at least a luncheon plate. I am sure each one weighs a half a pound.

I’d always intended to go check them out.

Today I did.

They barely fit in the bakery box.

I bought a seventh cinnamon roll for me to eat for lunch and Josh put it in a white paper bakery bag for me.

Here is Josh graciously posing for me with the box of the donuts. Thank you Josh.

I was going to take the box to Ohio but the car was so hot that when I was at the Beaver Falls Post Office I saw a woman waiting in a car, so I asked her if she liked Oram’s donuts and she said yes so I went to the car and gave her the box. She was most appreciative.

Nicole is constructing boxes to hold donut orders.

Josh and his brother built this LEGO® donut bakery. They sent a design to a company online and they sent the design kit to build, software is involved. It’s on display in the bakery and I found it fascinating.

Another view of the LEGO® bakery

A lot of details. This is the front of the bakery.

Love the LEGO® donuts

I bought a souvenir coffee mug for Steve if you lived in Beaver Falls and brought this mug in after purchase they will give you FREE coffee (the small size coffee) in your Oram’s mug

The building was built the year both my parents were born 1912

Oh yes, I mentioned that Beaver Falls is Football Hall of Famer Joe Namath‘s hometown so I found the plaque to him by the library(the library is closed on Friday’s 🙁 ) I drove by the Beaver Falls Senior High School but it is a modern one now and so I figured the old one must be the Middle School next door.

Library closed on Friday

Now the Middle School

The Newer High School

Here is the plaque

My friend Gail and her parents took me to see the JETS play in the late sixties and you know who the quarterback was in that game!

July 25, 2014July 25, 2014 by Ruth Categories: Baking, PhotographyTags: architecture, bakery, Beaver Falls PA, Cinnamon Roll, coffee, eating, food, football, Joe Namath, LEGO Bakery, LEGO®, New York Jets, Oram's Donuts, Pennsylvania, postaday, quarterback, Rick Sebak, travel 9 Comments

Pittsburgh Seltzer Bottles in Bridgeport Conn Crate

The glass bottles attracted my eye as I saw them sitting on a soda fountain counter on Carson Street in the South Side. Only when I got home and uploaded the photo did I read Bridgeport Conn. The bottles are from the Pittsburgh Seltzer Works but that wooden crate had Bridgeport Conn, stamped right on the side.

Bridgeport – where I spent four years of my life. Granted, a long time ago. It’s where I got my Art Education degree.

Oh and it’s home to the P.T. Barnum Museum, where Elias Howe invented the first sewing machine, where Sikorsky(now gone global) manufactured helicopters, where Dr Fones founded Dental Hygiene profession in 1906 and a ton of other well known names born there including Walt Kelly and Al Capp.

I think Paul Newman when he was filming The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, once called it the “armpit of New England” which wasn’t very kind. There was lots of industry and manufacturing, and then decline, departure and attempts to revitalize. The P.T. Barnum Museum is worth a trip, though. Seriously. And if you are into deterioration and dilapidation reports click here to read about Remington Arms.

February 20, 2014 by Ruth Categories: Photography, vintageTags: beverage, Bridgeport CT, Eias Howe, P.T.Barnum Museum, Pittsburgh Seltzer Works, Rick Sebak, seltzer bottles, Sikorsky Helicopter, travel, vintage 7 Comments

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