Quick Way

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Quick Way
Neighborhood Spring Hill-City View
Fate Probably never built
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Pine Street (until 1912)
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Quick Alley (1912–1914)

This former alley ran roughly north–south in the area to the north of the modern Spring Hill Playground.[1][2][3]

It was laid out as Pine Street in 1891.[4] It appears in the Hopkins atlases of 1897,[5] 1902,[6] and 1910,[7] but it is unlabeled in all of them.

Allegheny City was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907.[8] Apparently the City of Pittsburgh was unaware of the name Pine Street (possibly because it was unlabeled in available maps), so a 1912 Pittsburgh ordinance christened the "unnamed alley" Quick Alley.[9]

Quick Alley became Quick Way in 1914, when another ordinance changed all alleys in Pittsburgh to ways.[10]

Charles F. Danver mentioned Quick Way in a 1937 Post-Gazette column about unusual Pittsburgh street names.[11]

Quick Way was probably never actually built. It does not appear in a 1939 aerial photo,[12] and it makes no appearance in the Municipal Record after the 1912 ordinance that named it.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Real Estate Plat-Book of the City of Pittsburgh, vol. 4, plate 25. 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
  2. ↑ Real Estate Plat-Book of the City of Pittsburgh, vol. 4, p. 25. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1925, revised 1939. https://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1925-volume-4-revised-1939-plat-book-pittsburgh. [view source] hopkins-1939-vol-4
  3. ↑ Alexander Gross. Pittsburgh and Vicinity: Featuring transit lines and house numbers. Geographia Map Co. Inc., New York, 1953. Published with Alexander Gross, The Complete Street Guide to Pittsburgh and 16 Nearby Suburbs: With large map of Pittsburgh and suburbs; streets, house numbers, transportation lines, places of interest, churches, etc., etc., Geographia Map Co. Inc., New York, 1953 (DonsList.net PghStreets1953M). A slightly different version entitled The Premier Map of Pittsburgh and Vicinity is reproduced in Sam Stephenson, ed., Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Project, pp. 22–23, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2023, ISBN 978-0-226-82483-3 (LCCN 2022055151). [view source] gross-map
  4. ↑ "Plan of the Jenny heirs: Subdivision of the est. of George Hetzel Sr. situate in Reserve Twp, Allegheny Co., Pa." Laid out Nov. 1891; recorded May 11, 1893, Plan Book 13, pp. 188–189. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3780925. [view source] jenny-heirs-plan
  5. ↑ Real Estate Plat-Book of the Northern Vicinity of Pittsburgh, plate 17. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1897. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1897-plat-book-northern-pittsburgh. [view source] hopkins-1897
  6. ↑ Real Estate Plat-Book of the City of Allegheny, vol. 2, plate 11. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1902. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1902-volume-2-plat-book-allegheny; included in the 1903–1906 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1902-allegheny-vol-2
  7. ↑ Atlas of Greater Pittsburgh, plate 42B. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1910. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1910-atlas-greater-pittsburgh; 1910 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1910
  8. ↑ Mark A. Connelly. "Allegheny City–Pittsburgh City 1907 Consolidation." Local Geohistory Project. https://www.localgeohistory.pro/en/pa/event/allegheny-city-pittsburgh-city-1907-consolidation/. [view source] lgeo-allegheny-annexation
  9. ↑ "An ordinance changing the names of certain avenues, streets, alleys and ways in the City of Pittsburgh." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1912, no. 318. Passed May 28, 1912; approved May 31, 1912. Ordinance Book 24, p. 209. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh for the Year 1912, appendix, pp. 182–184, Gill Press, Pittsburgh, 1912 (Google Books 3DQwAQAAMAAJ, H8JEAQAAMAAJ; HathiTrust chi.096598685, uiug.30112108223873; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1912). [view source] ordinance-1912-318
  10. ↑ "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
  11. ↑ Charles F. Danver. Pittsburghesque. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Aug. 12, 1937, p. 8. Newspapers.com 90316941. [view source] danver-1937
  12. ↑ Aerial photograph APS-72-56. USDA Agricultural Adjustment Administration Northeast Division, 1939. https://www.pasda.psu.edu/pennpilot/era1940/allegheny_1938/allegheny_1938_photos_jpg_800/allegheny_051739_aps7256.jpg; https://www.pasda.psu.edu/pennpilot/era1940/allegheny_1938/allegheny_1938_photos_tif/allegheny_051739_aps7256.tif; included in the 1939 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] north-side-north-aerial-1939
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