Physically, it is absolutely irrational.

It must have been laid out by a mountain goat…

There’s just one balm – people who live here can’t find their way around, either.

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Steps on Fannel Street.

Many of the city’s neighborhoods are steeply sloped with two-lane roads.

Some streets are narrow, some wide.

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None runs more than a few blocks in a straight line, wrote Ernie Pyle.

Just like real streets, they have names, signs and even house numbers.

North Winebiddle Street steps

Goettmann Street steps

Bismark Street

Looking down Ella Street

Duquesne University steps.

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Sources:About.com/Wall Street Journal/The Firecracker/TribLive/The Pittsburgh Press (Apr 19, 1945)Photo courtesy:www.frontiernet.net/~rochballparks2/towns/pgh_steps.htm

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