While having some difficult Mystery Photos lately, this one ought to be a cream puff. Let’s see if at least a dozen readers can identify this mystery. If you know this picture, join others in sending in your answer to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown.
Howard Hoffman, Berkeley Lake, quickly spotted the recent mystery: “I think the mystery photo is Roberto Clemente bridge in Pittsburgh by PNC Park…my hometown. We used to see
the great Roberto Clemente play many times when my little league games were played behind Forbes Field.” The photo came from Taylor Walker of Lawrenceville.
Several readers thought they nailed this photo, remembering a bridge with locks on it in Paris.
George Graf of Palmyra, Va. wrote: “This is a view of the city of Pittsburgh, Penn., from the Roberto Clemente Bridge. Pittsburgh is my hometown, being born and raised in the city until being drafted by the U.S. Army during my senior year in college. Pittsburgh was a smokey city back in my childhood days and at night I could see the red glow from the many steel mills around the area out my bedroom window. Now it is a clean city which went through a renaissance period to develop new and cleaner industries.
“I remember going to baseball games during the 1950’s and 1960’s at old Forbes Field (c. 1909) and seeing Roberto Clemente play right field for our beloved Pirates baseball team. After being demolished, the cookie-cutter ThreeRivers Stadium was built in 1970. The new stadium that replaced Three Rivers is now beautiful PNC Park. The Roberto Clemente Bridge is one of three bridges built between 1924 and 1928 and nicknamed the “Three Sisters”. One is named in honor of Clemente, another for our native son, Andy Warhol, and the other for American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist Rachel Louise Carson.”
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas, gave detail of the locks on the bridge: “The Roberto Clemente Bridge crosses the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh. Located next to the PNC Park, the photo was shot from along the pedestrian walkway on the west side at the center of the bridge, which has the largest concentration of the 11,000 ‘love locks’ attached to the sides of the walkway. The locks are currently being removed, one-by-one, using bolt cutters, as part of a $34.4 million bridge rehabilitation project that started on Feb 14, 2022 and will continue through December 2023.
“They started removing the ‘love locks’ on Valentine’s Day 2022! How many promises of eternal love are being destroyed? How many hearts are being broken? But all is not lost, since the locks are being donated to the Industrial Arts Workshop, where students will re-purpose the locks into a new sculpture, with the intention of keeping alive the “hopes and dreams” of all the folks who put their time and energy to attach locks to the bridge.”
Susan McBrayer of Sugar Hill sent along a photo of the locks being removed one cold day.
GACS families donate supplies to Meadowcreek Elementary
Greater Atlanta Christian School families have donated school supplies such as pencils, crayons, notebooks, folders, and disinfecting wipes, for the teachers and students of neighboring Meadowcreek Elementary School. Over 200 individuals attended the service event to prepare the supplies, donated by GAC families, for delivery to 40 classrooms at Meadowcreek Elementary.
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