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Inthe Pittsburgh Planning Commission approved a new development located next door to the gritty Strip District gay bar at Penn Ave. Photo by David S. Its history and endurance are an authentic Pittsburgh tale. The club has survived a series of potential catastrophes leading up to the redevelopment, including the Covid pandemic and seismic shifts in gay club life.

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The Federal Cold Storage Co. Its walls were 3 feet thick and had three layers: an outer concrete layer, gay layer of powdered cork obtained from the nearby Armstrong Cork Co. To retain its cool temperature, the warehouse had no windows. It stored mostly produce but also poultry and other perishable foods for area wholesalers and markets.

A two-story annex functioned as a refrigeration and ice plant, drawing water from the Pittsburgh aquifer and producing ice that was sold throughout the city. In its 80 years as a cold storage warehouse, dairy company Borden rented space for its Pittsburgh operations. Negotiations with the Pittsburgh Planning Commission and Strip District neighborhood organizations yielded a plan for a new mixed-use development featuring four glass-clad office towers, the tallest rising to 23 stories.

Before the new development could be raised, the cold storage building had to be razed. She declined, setting up a visual spectacle involving a huge strip removing massive concrete blocks from the building and swinging them over the bar before being lowered to be crushed into district. Built inits first owner was a German jeweler named Gabriel Weisser.

After Weisser died inhis son continued selling jewelry there for about a decade. The family sold the property in After a series of stores and bars had occupied the space, Ralph and Victoria Blakeley bought the building in Ralph was a small-time mobster with a long arrest record for gambling and assaults.

The couple lived two blocks down in the block of Penn Avenue. Soon after the purchase, Victoria applied for a liquor license to open a bar at Penn. Victoria Blakeley died in Johns had become a Pittsburgh gay culture icon by that time. The money helped to pay for the slow-motion demolition that has captivated Strip District workers and residents.

One demolition worker on the site who declined to give his club says the bigger pieces weighed about 67, pounds with smaller section about 27, pounds. We heard you were closed. The Post-Gazette reported that Acram had deployed seismic sensors throughout the vicinity pittsburgh monitor vibrations. They also said that before demolition began, Acram engineers fully surveyed the building to document its conditions.

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