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Gonna miss this place. Dave & Andy's closing after 40 years.
Was looking for something unrelated and stumbled over this article I wrote years ago about Pittsburgh that touches on now-gone places and people.
I sit down at The Independent…and Rick Sebak is deejaying.

OK, newspaper, but hear me out: What if the record number of office vacancies is not in fact "throwing the market out of whack" but is rather bringing the market back into line with the reality that requiring most modern office work to be done in office buildings is, for the most part, incredibly dumb and inefficient.

Link: https://triblive.com/local/regional/theres-a-mismatch-office-vacancies-continue-to-climb-in-pittsburgh-region/

'There’s a mismatch': Office vacancies continue to climb in Pittsburgh region

The lights have gone out in more office buildings in the Pittsburgh area, resulting in a new record high for vacancies in the region. It’s a continuing trend that’s throwing the local market out of whack as everyone figures out what a post-pandemic workplace should be. “With the office market

TribLIVE.com

Catherine Holmes Wilkins' tombstone in Homewood cemetery.

"She was all that a husband could revere and, as mother – but here the scene closed. Heaven asserted its claim, and called her away at the moment when the delicious ??? of the mother were bursting into existence. Her only child soon followed its exemplary mother. The rose just budded on earth and was transplanted to bloom in paradise by the side of the parent stock."

Someone please tell me about this "Offenhauser" engine, THANKS. #VintageGrandPrix
It's loud in Squirrel Hill tonight. #VintageGrandPrix
Why you should watch "My Adventures With Superman" in one comic strip. ("Jimmy" in the strip is "Jimmy Olsen")
Hmmmm.
Never change, Squirrel Hill!