Pittsburgh 1962, Real Kodachrome Film The City Before the Mills Closed

Pittsburgh in the summer of 1962, in real Kodachrome color, scanned from the original 16mm film. Not colorized, not AI. A streetcar fan chartered a Pittsburgh Railways PCC car and filmed the whole day from the front window: across the bridges into downtown, past the one-year-old Civic Arena, through the traffic on the downtown streets past Isaly's and the Pittsburgh National Bank sign, up into the hillside neighborhoods, out to the car barns and the scrap lines, over the Smithfield Street Bridge, and into the woods of the South Hills on the 37 Shannon line, the only part of this film that still runs today. Pittsburgh had 600,000 people and was already shrinking. Two years later the Port Authority took over the streetcars, and within five years most of them were gone. Chapters 0:00 Pittsburgh, summer 1962 0:21 The Civic Arena 1:15 The fan trip 1:38 The PCC cars 2:01 Into the neighborhoods 3:32 The car barn 4:25 Downtown 6:15 The yard and the old cars 7:53 Across the bridge 8:54 Isaly's 10:07 57 Glenwood 10:46 Three rivers 14:38 37 Shannon 15:16 The Smithfield Street Bridge 15:40 The end of the line 16:58 Into the South Hills 18:35 What survived #Pittsburgh #1962 #streetcar #PCC #archivalfootage #historyincolor #1960s #vintagefilm #Kodachrome #Pennsylvania #realcolorfilm #notAI