Brookline is a heavily Italian neighborhood in the South Hills, out of
the way for between-the-rivers Pittsburghers but big enough to have a substantial
shopping district along Brookline Boulevard. Much of the neighborhood seems
to have stopped somewhere in the 1950s. It's a very pleasant neighborhood
to live in, and a good place to go shopping, or to have lunch in an old-style
city diner.
Brookline Boulevard is lined with small businesses that seem to have been
frozen forty years ago and perfectly preserved for our generation.
One of the first important buildings to go up in Brookline was the firehouse,
whose tower commands a view of the entire neighborhood.
Brookline is filled with good things to eat. Probably the only thing different
about this bakery from the way it was thirty years ago is the little sign
that says "OPEN SUNDAY."
Residential streets in Brookline frequently have steep hills to climb.
This one is still paved with the original Belgian block, which lasts forever
and frequently pokes defiantly through later layers of asphalt.
Some information on the cameras used for these
photographs:
Firehouse: Argus C3, 35-mm Argus Sandmar
lens, Imation ISO 100 film.
Others: LOMO Lubitel 166U, Kodak Ektachrome
64 film.
