Skyline Times Nine, Part 2: Signs, Designs, and Outlines
Pittsburgh: the city with gray skies and extra toppings. Pizza Burgh sign/logo including the skyline of downtown Pittsburgh, Munhall
Sweet Jesus! How much more can we say on the evergreen topic of Pittsburgh’s downtown skyline getting stylized, abstracted, and turned into commercial art? If we didn’t run out of things in last week’s post (about murals), then we most certainly did if you go back to the previous eight editions of skyline roundup preceding it.
Finding skylines out in the wild and collecting photographs of their many representations is still a labor of love slash limitless egg hunt. Writing about them—again—is like describing the contents of one’s sock drawer. There’s just not that much (more) to say.
So we’ll keep this extra short and get you onto what Orbit faithful have been pining for: graphic representations of downtown Pittsburgh on food trucks and banks, law offices and pizza boxes. Keep warm, be safe, and look up.
Empire City. Strictly Pittsburgh board game, c. 1979, Hoechstetter Printing Company, Inc.
A city ready to eat. PGH Halal Truck
Black-and-gold city. Evo’s Sports Bar, Charleroi
Sunset City. Gateway Cafe, Downtown
Little big skyline against big little skyline. Shadyside
The city with loose mortar and giant masons. 3 Rivers Brick Pointing
Dense City (not). Romeo’s Eat N’ Roll food truck
Southern City (not). Walter’s Southern Kitchen, Lawrenceville
A God-loving City. Vintage Church, Mt. Washington
An over-the-hill city. Overhill Lane, Strip District
Block City. City Co. Federal Credit Union
Garden City. Grounded/Neighborhood Allies PGH Mobile Toolbox, Larimer
Sensory Deprivation City. Float, Shadyside
8-bit City. 1 Live Radio, Marshall-Shadeland
City of the original cheesy bread. Giovanni’s Pizza & Pasta
City of the rising sun. Skyline Terrace, Hill District
The city with a leaky faucet. Pittsburgh Plumbing and Sewers
All outlines, no filler. City mobile stage, Schenley Park
Restoration City. Pittsburgh Restoration & Construction Services, Inc.
Parks in the front; buildings in the back. Park/City. CitiParks logo
A downtown bookended by bridges … and books. Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books
Rainbow City—now with medical marijuana! Maitri Chevy
Black-and-gold city, City of Bridges High School, East Liberty