Back Way
| Back Way | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | East Allegheny |
| Fate | Vacated in late 1960s |
| Back Alley (until 1914) | |
This alley formerly ran parallel to and east of Madison Avenue, just south of Ohio Street.[1] It appears as Back Alley in R. E. McGowin's map of 1852.[2] It became Back Way in 1914, when a Pittsburgh ordinance changed all alleys in the city to ways.[3]
In a 1937 Post-Gazette column joking about Pittsburgh street names, Charles F. Danver grouped Back Way with Front Way in Esplen (today Field Way), Rear Way in Regent Square, and Side Way in the Strip District.[4] And in a 1944 article in the Pittsburgh Press, Gilbert Love included Back Way in a list of ways that "in the competition for names . . . have had to take what was left by the larger streets."[5]
Back Way was vacated in the late 1960s for the construction of the interchange connecting I-279, I-579, and Route 28.[6]
References
- ↑ Real Estate Plat-Book of the City of Pittsburgh, vol. 4, plate 11. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1925. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1925-volume-4-plat-book-pittsburgh; included in the 1923 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1925-vol-4
- ↑ R. E. McGowin. Map of the Cities of Pittsburgh and Allegheny and of the Boroughs of South-Pittsburgh, Birmingham, East-Birmingham, Lawrenceville, Duquesne & Manchester etc. Schuchman & Haunlein, Pittsburgh, 1852. https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agdm/id/32269. [view source] mcgowin-1852
- ↑ "An ordinance changing the name 'alley' on every thoroughfare in the City of Pittsburgh to 'way.'" Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1914, no. 402. Passed Nov. 10, 1914; approved Nov. 16, 1914. Ordinance Book 26, p. 360. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh for the Year 1914, appendix, p. 226, McClung Printing Co., Pittsburgh (HathiTrust uiug.30112108223899; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1914). Reprinted in the Pittsburgh Post, Nov. 23, 1914, p. 11 (Newspapers.com 86505785), and Nov. 24, p. 12 (Newspapers.com 86505809). [view source] ordinance-1914-402
- ↑ Charles F. Danver. Pittsburghesque. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Aug. 12, 1937, p. 8. Newspapers.com 90316941. [view source] danver-1937
- ↑ Gilbert Love. "What's in a name? A lot!: Christening streets is big chore for Pittsburgh has 5888 of them: Official Thinker Up of Street Names even goes to seed and mail order catalogs to find appropriate titles: Complications rise when residents complain." Pittsburgh Press, Feb. 11, 1944, p. 25. Newspapers.com 147943383. [view source] love-christening
- ↑ "An ordinance authorizing the Mayor, the Director of the Department of Public Works, the Director of the Department of Water and the Director of the Department of Lands and Buildings, for and on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to enter into a cooperation agreement with the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh, for the redevelopment of Redevelopment Area No. 25—East Street Interchange, in the 23rd and 24th Wards of the City of Pittsburgh, providing for the vacation of certain streets and alleys in said area, the conveyance of all the City's right, title and interest in and to said vacated streets and alleys, and other real property to the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh, providing for non-discrimination in the use of public facilities and setting forth the terms of the agreement." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1967, no. 593. Passed Dec. 22, 1967; approved Dec. 28, 1967. Ordinance Book 69, p. 271. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh: For the Year 1967, appendix, pp. 395–397, Park Printing, Inc., Pittsburgh (Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1967). [view source] ordinance-1967-593
