Tube City Almanac

January 25, 2011

Mystery Photo Location Identified

Category: General Nonsense, History || By

Earlier this month, I posted a Depression-era photo of a steel mill and coke works, and suggested it might be U.S. Steel's Clairton Works.

Almanac contributor John Barna and Alert Reader Bill suggested it was actually Jones & Laughlin's Hazelwood Works.

The other morning, while eating my Post Toasties, I was perusing a history of Pitt football and saw this photo of former quarterback Dan Marino. Taken by Marlene Karas, the photo was shot in the North Oakland neighborhood where Marino grew up, overlooking the very same Hazelwood Works.

Something about the background caught my eye --- the coal docks jutting out into the river looked mighty familiar. So I enlarged the photo on a flatbed scanner:


And sure enough, the coal docks and the line of hills in the background match those in the mystery photo:


John and Bill are correct --- the mystery photo shows the J&L Hazelwood Works.

So that's yet another mystery solved by Tube City Almanac. The bigger mystery, of course, is what the hell happened to Pitt's football program after the Danny Marino era? But that's a question for other websites in other places.

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