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Article: YOU HAD TO ASK: What was located on the area known as the Strip District before it became the home of fruits, vegetables and nightlife in Pittsburgh?
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- Pittsburgh City Paper
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- October 23, 2002
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Hard as it is to believe of any Pittsburgh neighborhood these days, the Strip District used to be a center of heavy industry. In fact, according to Franklin Toker's Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait, when Pittsburgh was described as "Hell with the lid off," the speaker was looking down at the Strip District from the Hill. And that was in 1868 ... before Bar Pittsburgh even opened!
Nobody is exactly sure where the Strip District got its name -- although visitors usually assume the worst -- and the area has had several others: O'Harasville (after its founder James O'Hara), the Northern Liberties (to distinguish it from East Liberty and West Liberty) and even Denny's Bottoms (the less said about ...