Anyone who uses the Tarentum Bridge has seen the large, red brick building at East Seventh Avenue and Ross Street. It’s hard to miss the black panther sign, Gatto Cycle Shop’s logo, painted on its side. But before the Gatto family acquired the building in the late 1980s, it was
The clamor of trains chugging through Tarentum — and perhaps the inconvenience of getting stuck at one of its crossings — is a daily reminder of the role locomotives play in the borough. While the route is no longer used for passengers, that wasn’t the case in the early days.
The Crystal City Council passed an ordinance to bring an end to the long-standing legal battles involving the property which was previously the site of the Pittsburg Plate Glass (PPG) factory, which closed in 1991.
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Katy Devlin takes a kayak tour through a now-flooded former silica sand mine that provided the raw materials for the flat glass plant that sat atop it.