Pittsburgh, PA - Penn Avenue - Churchill to Downtown Pittsburgh Driving Tour 4K Subaru WRX

A drive down the entire length of Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh, PA
This drive goes through several neighborhoods: Churchill and Wilkinsburg (outside city limits), Point Breeze, Larimer, East Liberty, Garfield, Lawrenceville, Strip District, and Downtown.
Penn Avenue is a major arterial street in Pittsburgh and Wilkinsburg.
Pittsburgh’s Penn Avenue follows the path that British General John Forbes and his troops hacked through the wilderness as they marched westward to take control of the Point in November 1758. Penn Avenue is the oldest and most historically-significant street in Pittsburgh.
More than two-and-a-half centuries later, Penn Avenue offers an incredibly rich experience for the biker, hiker, or driver.

[silvercreekcrossing]

The trees look so big as big as I remember. Dad said when he was little they had a tree called the Dutch elm. But they don’t anymore.

[Stuckneutral]

OMG! What memories I have of this route. I walked these streets from Wilkinsburg to East Liberty so many times in the late 1950s and I see much has changed since then. I went west in mid 60s so I wasn't around to see the changes. Thanks so much for making this video.

[silvercreekcrossing]

Grandma lived in a house on the hill by the incline. She met grandpa during a church picnic. Grandma was baking pies. Grandpa was overwhelmed by her talent in baking. She had made him a cherry pie which is one of the most difficult because every seed needed to be pitted. The textile mill on the hill where she worked in the 3 rd grade her job was to change the spools. They needed children to do it. She could count and play the organ really well so she was a pro at changing the spools and counting she would load the loom with thread.

[silvercreekcrossing]

I noticed Churchill in this video my father always thought fondly of him I would listen to his speeches in history class. And my grandfather home schooled me.

[peterc]

Great video, I grew up on South Dallas Avenue just a few houses from Penn Avenue

[silvercreekcrossing]

Thank you so much fir this video it is like being home again

[feralcatfamily]

Great tour through Pittsburgh. Penn Ave cuts across so many distinct neighborhoods. I haven't lived in Pittsburgh for decades and it's good to see them on the rebound. East Liberty used to a no-go zone. Looks like the last neighborhood to be brought back is Wilkinsburg. It has such a great urban layout with all those wonderful brick buildings lining Penn Ave. Lots of potential.

[CounterXparts]

I know those WRX bumps all too well...Gotta love the streets of Pittsburgh.

[chuckdieselkicksdisks]

Cool !♣ I didn't even know, that Penn Ave Ended started in Churchill, ♥ I thought ♦ it was always Wilkinsburg.♠ Very Nice clear picture.♟ Thanks for posting ♣

[CocosRico]

Would be awesome if a small thumbnail of your location was on the video as well. (Like a cropped map)

[silvercreekcrossing]

I love the stone walls. There were fortresses homes in some of the more wealthier neighborhoods. I remember Avondale from my family.

[silvercreekcrossing]

Anne Lamerau was my aunt she was a real estate agent. In college I studied historical preservation.

[silvercreekcrossing]

Grandmother had a painting of a Shepard boy it was famous little boy blue or something. Their house she thought she had been robbed but grandpa was moving them across town so she could have a one level house with ducks in the back yard. They moved the next day.

[silvercreekcrossing]

Grandma cared for grandpa at home she had all her kids at home. They were all born in her bed.

[silvercreekcrossing]

My father was scared of doctors but grandma had to call one when his brother Bobbie got sick

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Garfield I remember wasn’t there a president Garfield?

[silvercreekcrossing]

I saw the name Lawerence we always watched Lawerence Welk

[silvercreekcrossing]

My grandfather house was white with black shutters kinda square. Three stories of you count the attic

[silvercreekcrossing]

It is clearer skies than a child everything as a child was black and white because of the coal furnaces. As a child I remember grandpa getting the first colored tv

[silvercreekcrossing]

White picket fences always in my grandfather yard