Check out Pittsburgh Magazines guide to Oakland! Home of Walnut Capital and experience "The best of city living"! Attend food festivals, name your own price for a play, join a culture club, or just experience affordable eating!
by Sean Conboy [Pittsburgh Magazine]
The old tailor’s shop is now a Starbucks, the Italian bakery was turned into 400 different things until it settled into a fro-yo shop and don’t get the born-and-breds started on the bars—the real ones.
And yet in this corridor of humming innovation, all well-lit and repaved a thousand times over since the days when the ivy clung to the leftfield wall of Forbes Field, pieces of the past still hold out. On a hot summer day, The Original Hotdog Shop still simmers and smokes out onto Forbes Avenue, and at night, its cursive neon sign still burns red. The crispy dogs and crusty ambiance haven’t changed in 50 years...
This is no collegiate enclave like all the rest. This is, after all, the birthplace of Joey Diven—The Big Guy, The Bear, The White Knight of Oakland.
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