Skyline Fine Time: At Ten, An All-U-Can-Eat Buffet of Downtown Pittsburgh
Holy City. A mural featuring the skyline of downtown Pittsburgh, Homewood
Man, I hope you came ready to eat.
It’s been a been more than a year since The Orbit served up its last over-the-top feast of all things skyline-shaped, themed, printed, and painted, so you have a right to be hungry.
And O! What a meal we’ve prepared for the skyline-starved today! Murals with downtown Pittsburgh as both star and supporting player. Business signage to either boast one’s 412 bona fides or pander to us yokels from a corporate office far, far away. Hand-created tributes as extracurricular activity spray painted onto bicycle paths and inked onto city steps railings.
The city with a disembodied foot: mural, Perry Hilltop
All that—and more—awaits diners at this all-u-can-eat buffet of bridges, The Point, Steel Tower, PPG, and the rest. Grab a fork and knife, don’t waste your time on rolls—those are for suckers—and dig into a legitimate, if figurative, smorgasbord of Your Favorite City™ put on the pedestal it deserves … or, at least, thinks it deserves when it’s not too down on itself.
If somehow you’re still hungry for more, you can always go back to skyline stories one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine part 1 and 2, you know, just to tide you over.
Cubist City: mural, Love Pittsburgh, Strip District
Flood City: mural, Ketchup City, Sharpsburg
Undead City: mural, Zombieburgh, Monroeville Mall
Music City: mural (detail), Homewood
Shoe City: mural, Mexican War Streets, North Side
Sparkle City: The Color Park, South Side
Pittsburgh: where the coffee flows like a tidal wave. Adda Coffee, Garfield
Sagging City: mural, Art All Night 2022
Step City: handrail drawing, Polish Hill
‘Do City: Pittsburgh Cuts & Styles, Wilkinsburg
Green City: Patagonia, Shadyside
It’s 9:10 somewhere. Downtown Pittsburgh plus the old Duquesne Brewery clock, Crossfit Athletics, South Side
Emerald City: Emerald Electrical Services van
Electric City: A to Z Quality Electric
Iconic City … at least we hope this is a super-stylized image of The Point and downtown buildings and not something more sinister
Bubble City: Up in Suds Soap
Buy-a-Lady-a-Drink City: Stella Artois beer sign
Paradise City: Winner’s Paradise, Wilkinsburg
A city with high heels and rubber balls: Steel City Kickers League, Lawrenceville
River (Trail) City: River Trail Cafe, North Side
Gray City: Quinerly Financial Group, North Side
Food City: Pittsburgh Restaurant Week office, North Side
This is why we can’t have nice things. PGH DOMI neighborway signage, Lawrenceville