Tripod Way

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Tripod Way
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Frances Lester Warner, in a 1923 essay called "The Pittsburgh Owl," included Tripod Way in a list of streets named for Pittsburgh's "scientific paraphernalia,"[1] and Bob Regan copied this list in his book.[2]

See also

  • Truax Way, which was named Tripod Alley from 1896 to 1910

References

  1. Frances Lester Warner. Groups and Couples, p. 228. Houghton Mifflin, Boston and New York, 1923. Google Books lub2z89YnoYC; Internet Archive groupscouples00warn. The essay "The Pittsburgh Owl" is available at http://www.info-ren.org/projects/btul/Pennsylvania/pghowl.html and http://www.info-ren.org/projects/btul/exhibit/pghowl.html. [view source]groups-and-couples
  2. Bob Regan. The Names of Pittsburgh: How the city, neighborhoods, streets, parks and more got their names, p. 61. The Local History Company, Pittsburgh, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9770429-7-5. [view source]regan