Talk:Shadyside (Pittsburgh)

Centre Avenue

Centre Avenue is the borderline between E. Liberty and Shadyside so the retail outlets on the southern side of Centre are wholly within Shadyside according to the official city definitions. I agree that this should not exclude having those establishments claimed by and mentioned in the East Liberty article, neither should they be excluded from the official definition of Shadyside. I feel that this is pretty cut and dry and that the description provided accurately portrays reality, that Centre Avenue while wholly within Shadyside is its border and serves into the East Liberty neighborhood. I am open to suggestions but please don't randomly delete factual information without discussion, if you have an argument placing the one side of Centre inside of Shadyside (the city could have made the busway the border) the city-county building are the people to write to. Open to ideas on this but given the facts I feel the description provided is most reflective of reality. Thanks. Hholt01 00:07, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

• I agree. However, I took out Trader Joe's because it's on the north(east) side of Penn, in 'sliberty. — brighterorange (talk) 02:09, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
  • My bad, thanks for the assist, and by all means I think E. Liberty gets to claim these Centre Avenue venues as well -Hholt01

Yes, it does. Some companies, such as PNC, are trying to call the area East Side, a la the North Shore, so they don't have to have the area's reputation, but much has been made of the commercialization of East Liberty. --Chris Griswold (☎☓) 09:39, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Everything I have read and heard about this area was that it was E. Liberty. The interactive map says otherwise. I will have to look further. Trader Joe's is E. Lib, though. --Chris Griswold (☎☓) 09:47, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Based on some city planning information I saw over the weekend and an interview I had with the staff at the PNC East Side branch, it's the busway and not Centre that separates the two neighborhoods. --Chris Griswold (☎☓) 13:28, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Origin of name

I have added information on the origin of the name, Shadyside, and another line of info on the residential area, as both seem to explain on the history of the neighborhood. Thanks! --Jongq (talk) 04:19, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Mellon Park

I plan to add information on Mellon Park. It is in Shadyside and is not even mentioned in this Shadyside stub. I might simply add on a sentence including a brief description and link Mellon Park, since it does have it's own stub on Wikipedia already. I plan on including it's history, information on the Walled Garden, and anything else I might find later on that would be good to add to the stub! MorganPaige (talk) 20:02, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Shadyside Action Coalition

I plan on adding to the information about SAC as well as explain it's impact on the Shadyside community. I will write about how it helps the area and the goals of the group. Spector.a (talk) 20:31, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Shadyside School District

I plan on elaborating on the various school's in the district of Shadyside and providing more information than just the names of them. I will write about the schools as well as the area's overlook of them. sdl27 (talk) 20:31, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Hey sdl27, you might want to think about moving the majority of the content into each school's respective articles and instead provide a shorter summary which then points to the school's article. The content currently does not seem to help readers gain an understanding of Shadyside as a neighborhood. --Battlefield1181 (talk) 20:44, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

I agree with Battlefield here, especially since these schools have their own pages. Also, Winchester-Thurston is no longer an all-girls school (your first sentence implies that it is currently all-girls). Here is another Wiki page on a school you might check out Regina High School (Ohio) Llh19 (talk) 03:03, 20 November 2010 (UTC)Llh19

Review

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--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 19:14, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi Shadyside Wiki editors: let's consider why this page has been flagged for having an "advertisement" tone. Certain phrases such as " these unique boutiques still reside in Shadyside, and give the area a homey and old-fashioned impression" are not neutral. It's obvious by the subjective nature of terms like "unique," "homey and old-fashioned impression." Or this: "express busway stops are CONVENIENTLY located in the neighborhood on Negley Avenue (between Ellsworth and Centre avenues) and on Ellsworth Avenue (at Shady Avenue)." Some of these may have come before you students began editing the page, but now that we've taken on the Shadyside page we should tweak all we can to make it a good article. We want to make sure to keep it neutral and not solely post endorsement-like content. Keep working at it, guys. ALlh19 (talk) 02:49, 20 November 2010 (UTC)Llh19

Shadyside Action Coalition section: Please proofread and check for grammar issues. Many errors throughout. Please also fix citations/references--check out the sample reference on our course talk page User:Llh19/pittsburghcityseminar. Make sure we see what an outside-of-SAC viewpoint would be.Llh19 (talk) 03:05, 20 November 2010 (UTC)Llh19

Shadyside schools section: please see Battlefield's comments and my own above. Need more sources, especially beyond Wikipedia itself and the schools' respective Web site. Also, do you need to link to the Wikipedia page each time you mention WT? Llh19 (talk) 03:21, 20 November 2010 (UTC)Llh19

Mellon Park section: See talk page of Mellon Park article: Mellon Park Llh19 (talk) 03:22, 20 November 2010 (UTC)Llh19

Please do not speedy delete.

We've added "hang on" notice so this page will not be deleted yet. It is being edited over the next few weeks for an educational course; we are aware of the fallacies and will address them. Thank you. Llh19 (talk) 02:34, 20 November 2010 (UTC)Llh19

Hey Llh19, for future reference, being tagged as an advertisement does not automatically mean the article is tagged for speedy deletion. --Battlefield1181 (talk) 14:37, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I realize that--thanks. This article did have the special "speedy delete" tag from a Wiki editor, but after my note Dondegroovily removed the tag (for now). You can see it on the History tab. It worries me a bit, actually, the note on the edit "it's a freaking neighborhood not an advertisement"--so hopefully we can address the issues. Llh19 (talk) 16:54, 20 November 2010 (UTC)Llh19

Shadyside in the late 60's and early 70's

I saw a reference to this article and clicked on it to review my past happiness in Shadyside. However, the hey-day of Shadyside is not mentioned.

Shadyside was famous during the hippie era. It was the Haight-Ashbury of Pittsburgh during the free-living period of the last 60's. Every young adult in Pittsburgh wanted to live there, and most of us did. Walnut Street from Negley to South Aiken was filled with bars, clubs, and a few restaurants. I remember specifically the "Pizza Pub" and "The Casbah", plus two private clubs on the side street behind the Casbah. There was always a line outside to get in the Casbah. Taylor's bar, a working class men's hangout, at the corner of Walnut and Aiken was originally the only holdout not occupied by kids. Later the kids invaded it, also. Young people crowded the street every night. At that time, most of the shops were on South Aiken. They were small, private, quality stores, not cookie-cutter branches of national chains like occupy Walnut now.

The western side of Shadyside, from Aiken to Amberson, was a ritzy area of mansions and fancy apartments occupied by real money, people who hated the kids taking over Shadyside. The streets between 5th Avenue and Walnut were nice middle-class residential homes. These residents also wanted to "clean up" Shadyside, but they were not as vehement as the millionaires. The coalition that you mention in the article was formed in 1973 for the sole purpose of getting the kids out of Shadyside and reclaiming Walnut as a shopping center, instead of a fun place for young people.

I have no references for this information except my memory of the hundreds of nights bar-hopping in Shadyside. From 1967 through 1972, I lived in an apartment in Negley, than later one on Centre Avenue. There should be newspaper references from that time to the nightlife in Shadyside and to the work of the rich folks to evict us.

I do not under the instruction "sign your post", but here are four tildes. 66.213.109.42 (talk) 15:12, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

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