I got my bags back on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 621. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about

sports teams and Andy War Hall. The French and Indian War,

Caberns, Oil Wells, and Steel as we go to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. With no further

to do, let's talk about Pittsburgh. I'd like to welcome to the show Tom Schainer from the Pittsburgh area who has come to talk to us about the same. Tom, welcome to the show.

Thanks, Chris. Looking forward to sharing the Pittsburgh area with all your listeners.

Great, and now we have done another show on sharing the Pittsburgh area with all your listeners.

Great, and we have done another show on Pittsburgh,

just so people know if you've been around for a long, long time.

We did an episode about, let's see, episode 259, so about the sixth year of the show, so about seven, eight years ago.

But why should people go to Pittsburgh?

Why should people go to Pittsburgh?

There's an immeasurable amount of things to do here both in the city outdoors activities

Culture history. There's been somewhat been like an arts renaissance here since the collapse of the steel industry back in the

70s and 80s this area was somewhat downtrodden for quite some time but we've had

a renaissance as far as not only a new building it it's become a technology center, it's become a

health care center, it's a college and university town, there's a lot going on here.

Well, and I think people of my age, which is less than half the audience these days, will picture Pittsburgh

and they'll think of that town that was driven by coal and steel and was a little dirty back in the day but that's not the Pittsburgh that it is today.

It is not. I live a little bit outside of the city and the Kiskiminidus River, what we refer to it as the Kiski, and I live real close to it

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