Tour Guide Becky
Ξ February 18th, 2009 | → 13 Comments | ∇ me |
I love this town. Everyone knows that I bleed the Three Rivers. Or Black & Gold. When someone asks why black & gold, I am quick to inform them that Pittsburgh is the only city where every professional sports team wears the same colors. It is not unusual to find me raving about the fact that our Carnegie museum not only has one of Monet’s Water Lillies and one of the last paintings Van Gogh did before he shot himself, but it also has actual dinosaur bones (in addition to plaster casts like most museums). If we are driving around dahntahn you will be shown buildings made of glass (home of Pittsburgh Plate Glass, aka PPG), a building made of steel (home of U. S. Steel) and a building made of aluminum (former headquarters of the Aluminum Company of America, aka ALCOA). You would also hear about some of the many movies filmed here and probably find out that in the Gadget movie that Mathew Broderick did, the bad guy fell from the tallest of PPG’s all glass buildings (although tonight my guests heard about the ice skating rink that shows up in the center of PPG Place, a rink which I have heard is as big as the rink at Rockefeller Center, although I refuse to believe that NYC would have such a tiny rink). Every time I go kayaking I am sure to point out the house that was used in Silence of the Lambs (“It puts the lotion in the basket or else it gets the hose!”). Out of town guests are forced to go to Primanti Brothers for a sammich…the original hole in the wall down in the Strip, not one of their new restaurant locations. Old train stations that have been rehabilitated into fun destinations are pointed out. Our little Clipper Fleet is hard to miss as they cruise the three rivers, but I am always suggesting the old WWII duck boat tours because I have so much fun every time I do the tour. The church which was saved from demolition only to be converted to a microbrewery is even on my list of interesting experiences while in Pittsburgh. Of course I drag everyone up to Mt. Washington to look at the city at night because if it could make the top of a list of America’s most beautiful views, I’ll be damned if my guests miss it. Hell, for that matter I make them pay attention when we come through the Ft. Pitt Tunnel from the airport because there really aren’t other cities that have a window the way Pittsburgh does.
Damn, that was a runon paragraph. I really love this fucking town.
ANYhow, I was trying to say that I have two new coworkers in from out of town so I had the pleasure of showing them around a bit Tuesday evening after I grabbed them at the airport. They had so much fun that they asked me to take them out again on Wednesday after our long ass day of training. Should be fun!
P.S. Yes, I certainly could have added more links and more ‘yay, Pittsburgh’ stuff. Bite me!
on February 18th, 2009 at 12:43 AM
Becky=best tour guide ever.
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on February 18th, 2009 at 1:33 AM
Clearly I have more of your great state to see. And it’s always good to have a native guide…
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on February 18th, 2009 at 6:07 AM
Primanti Brothers has been on the Food Network and the Travel Channel alot recently. Oh yes, I shall eat there one day. Oh yes.
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on February 18th, 2009 at 6:47 AM
It is so cute how much you love that place.
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on February 18th, 2009 at 7:26 AM
So when Katie and I finally do get around to visiting the land of my ancestors, you’ll be our tour guide? Sweet!
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on February 18th, 2009 at 8:02 AM
Yep – I’d like you for a tour guide next time I’m in Pittsburgh, too, please!!!
A Philly cheese steak sounds really good right now, too. Mmmmmm…..
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on February 18th, 2009 at 9:03 AM
I have to second B.E. Earl on Primanti Brothers. I’m really all about the fuds.
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on February 18th, 2009 at 11:08 AM
Yanno, I love the way you love that place. It makes me so happy.
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on February 18th, 2009 at 11:48 AM
If I ever come visit Pittsburgh, we’ll just hang out at your house and eat food. I don’t care about any of that other stuff.
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on February 18th, 2009 at 11:59 AM
The tour sounds like so much fun that I need a sammich now. Looking forward to my trip next month.
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on February 19th, 2009 at 5:28 PM
If I’m ever in Pittsburgh, I will totally look you up.
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on February 21st, 2009 at 5:23 PM
Cadbury’s chocolate is based in Bourneville, England. If only they had a building made of chocolate…
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on February 22nd, 2009 at 2:18 PM
sarah -
i can be. i can also be insanely annoying. you be the judge when you visit!
fist -
oh hell yeah! philly and pittsburgh are nothing alike, really. i’d be happy to show you around if you find yourself here in the burgh.
b.e. earl -
being drunk and eating a primanti’s sammich sometime after 2 in the morning helps make the experience better. also? go to the original one, downtown in the strip and eat at the counter. yes, it makes a difference.
britt -
i do totally adore this city. you’ll have a great time when i drag you all over town. plus i will get you plenty of terrific photo ops. promise.
kapgar -
of course i would love to show you two around! get your asses here.
sybil –
i would love to show you around my city, but unfortunately you aren’t really gonna get a good philly cheese steak here in pittsburgh. that’s ok though, you’ll have so much fun you will forget about their sandwich.
dawg -
i remember the first time i has a salad and a sandwich that didn’t each have french fries on them. man, what a let down! and the way people looked at me as though i were from another planet because i wanted fries on my sammich. sheesh!
finn -
thanks, pretty lady. if you have the opportunity to visit, i have a feeling you might leave with a little love in your heart for the steel city.
avitable -
we can hang out at my house, but there are some seriously good restaurants that we will have to go to. most of the great ones don’t deliver. since you and i don’t cook, we are gonna have to go out. and you just might happen to see some cool stuff.
nobody -
you are going to love the beer place i take you to. depending on your time, maybe beer placeS.
courtney -
absolutely! if you didn’t, i would be offended!
mr farty -
ya know, i have never had a cadbury egg. they scare me. but i would fuck up a building made of chocolate!