Strange but Sad Case of the last 2 Business holdouts for East Street Valley I-279 and east Ohio Street Pa 28 Expansions

 Sad but true the North side of Pittsburgh has been completely chewed up and rebuilt with highway bypasses in many areas . Destroying the Neighborhoods of Manchester ,Woods Run, East Street Valley ,Dutche Town and East Ohio Street  among others 

As the many homes and business where torn up and destroyed and hearts broken 2 cases stand out with there own horrific endings. 

A long time hold out on the I-279 East Street Valley expressway  a meat Packing Company  and East Ohio Street Bypass Pa 28 a Auto Body Shop

Both where last to leave by force and both ended up commuting suicide in the end .

After moving to there new locations .

Allegheny Auto Body Shop owner  Bill Leibreth Jr.   Moved to Verona Road near Frankstown Rd in Penn Hills and within a year of moving  took his own life by gun shot after shooting a relative in a dispute 

His property along E. Ohio Street was a bunch of old run down buildings painted a hideous orange  and at one time was a small brewery with caves in the hill behind it .

he tried to have the buildings preserved along with St Nicholas Church but both fell to the wrecking ball. The stress in the end was too much . there is still a FB page for Allegheny Auto Body and comments on he tragedy

https://www.facebook.com/Alleghenyautobodysavedeductible/

Northwestern  Packing was located at the far end of East Street near Milroy Street  and he also held out and was built a place off Mt Pleasant Street  which lasted a couple years but he alsosuposedly took his life details of which are hard to confirm .

 

Seems Pendot and others want to forget what happened to all the families and businesses destroyed in the name of progress . You think the history and places would be recorded some where but i have not been able to find them.

Even more paranormal events

 Its getting crazy can go to an event almost every weekend 

 

 

 

another upcoming paranormal event

 

This Fire Dept hall was once a Hotel with a Notorious Past

 As you go down US 199 towards Uniontown you pass thru Connellsville and the road splits and in the section that splits sits the Morrel Volunteer Fire Dept. 

It moved to its newest location several years ago at 1232 University Drive  Dunbar Pa  after the roof collapsed at its former location  

https://www.heraldstandard.com/news/2010/jul/07/morrell-vfd-ponders-decision-on-station/

Now most people remember it being a former Victory  Ford Car Dealership

But if you take a close look at the building you can see it was something else

To the rear of the station sits part of a yellow brick structure

This yellow brick building is what is left of what was once a hotel I believe its name was The Starlite Hotel  and it had a Notorious Past 

Seems the mob ran high stakes card games in the hotel and several gamblers who won big jackpots never got to spend it having disappeared .

some day  I hope to get more info on the hotel but google has produced little.

Another outstanding Big Foot Event coming this Fall

 

Conspiracy theorists at it again after bridge fell into ravine in Pittsburgh during presidents visit

Its been a year since  the collapse of the Fern Hollow Bridge in Frick Park and rumors are still floating around on internet that the bridge did not fall from just lack of maintenance and negligence  but that it was deliberately made to collapse to push President Biden's highway and infrastructure agenda. who came to Pittsburgh the morning of the collapse .

https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/pittsburgh-bridge-collapse-fern-hollow-one-year-later-infrastructure-bridges-president-biden

OK so lets look at some interesting things these conspiracy folks are saying.

The Fern Hollow bridge was chosen to be vandalized  because it was one of the shortest and lowest 

bridges among the hundreds of bridges in Pittsburgh and was not over a river or large creek.So when it went down there was a greater chance of low to no loss of life and would get the point across.

While this could be a workable conspiracy   . Investigations have shown the total and complete negligence of failing to do proper preventive maintenance caused it and its a total coincidence the president was in town that day. 

Local Attorneys have been having a very hard time getting records from the city of Pittsburgh and have had to go to court to get them.

Plus a recently released reports dozens of bridges not being properly maintained. 

https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/new-concerns-raised-about-conditions-of-pittsburgh-bridges/

 But despite the evidence of no fowl play there are those who insist there was.  

In some case the way our world is one can wonder but in this case it is very clear negligence not foul play was involved .

 

Mysterious Gigantic Earth Shaking Booms and Explosions . WhatsCausing them? and Why?

 All over SW Pa and Northern WV and Eastern Ohio people have been reporting loud earth shattering booms which cover several community's at a time . while some  write it off as kids playing with powerful fireworks or good ole boys shooting at Tannerite targets its too easy to just say that is the cause .

One loud boom and shake was heard from Mercer county Pa all the way down to parts of Kentucky  on December 31st 2023  and January 1st 2024

I have been helping Stan Gordon the UFO guy in Westmoreland County with tracking these booms 

and while a couple of them have been attributed to Minor Earthquake , Meteorites or Snow Quakes during extreme cold weather it does not explain them all 

https://www.stangordon.info/wp/2022/01/01/mystery-booms-reported-on-two-successive-days-in-southwestern-pennsylvania-december-31-2021-and-january-1-2022/

 They are increasing in size and strength  and how often they are happening 

There has been plenty of speculation from Underground Fracking  fluid Injection wells  and Fracking activity  to Underground Coal Mines collapsing to even the bizarre that the government has secret underground tunneling machines hey are using under the area  to build a secret tunnel network for god knows what.

It usually starts out with a Facebook post like this that was on Mountain News Group 

0n 02.04,2024 

 Anyone know what these earth shaking explosions are near Markleysburg?  Seems a lot more powerful than the usual rednecks with their quarter sticks of dynamite.

 Soon as its posting dozens of people start reporting all over hearing the explosion and if their homes rattled from it. Now there are plenty of jokers saying they farted etc.  but its is becoming very concerning just what the hell is going on and what is causing them.  This also goes along with strange sounds of horns being heard in the skies as well.

Some say its the end times . There has got to be a logical scientific explanation but for now it is a mystery

 

The Ghost Town of Cochranton Promises not kept by Allegheny County Officials

 If you ride down Pa. 837 thru City of  Duquesne  you will encounter a wide open valley with just the Macedonia Baptist Church  as lone occupant.

You can clearly tell something was there Maybe part of the old US Steel works ? but this was not the case this was a little neighborhood known as Cochranton 

It had a small old fashioned wooden grocery store ran by an older semi retired Black Couple where iI would stop in to buy a candy bar and Ice Tea  while installing the fire and security system on Macedonia Church new Addition . and an Old Arco Gas station which was being used as a repair garage.

 One day while leaving after working on the church I heard a cry for help  while sitting at intersection waiting to get out. coming from the old gas station . I looked over and a elderly Crippled man had accidentally caught his hand in the door of his old beat up pickup and could not free himself. I immediately ran over and was able to get him free. despite and injury to his hand he refused me getting him medical care and said he would take care of it himself.

There where  also several rows of  wooden homes  many abandoned but others well kept. 

When the mills closed it hit this neighborhood hard .

So the Allegheny County Redevelopment Authority  bought out the property owners 

They had this big plan which part of which you can see in the office hall way of Macedonia church 

a gym was to be added to the church and new housing and business where the old neighborhood stood. 

Instead it has sat empty since late 90s. promises forgotten and people chased out of their homes which could have been saved.  But that's Pittsburgh and Allegheny County Redevelopment  Authority's for you when you here Redevelopment what they really mean is Negro Removal . They have done it over and over again sometimes they build things but never to scale promised and those displaced Too Bad.