Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five of the windows in the office of T. Mellon & Sons are made of opaque, leaded glass which shuts out the contradictions of Pittsburgh's ugly business district. But a sixth window of clear glass opens like an eye in the blackened granite face of the old Union Trust Co. building on Grant Street, from which the Mellons run their family interests. In this window, at odd moments over the past fortnight, appeared an erect, grey-haired man in a well-tailored suit. Richard King Mellon was looking down into a large hole between Fifth Avenue and Oliver Avenue...
...morning until midnight the pile driver banged, ringing in the heads of downtown office workers, rattling the windows in Kaufmann's department store, keeping guests awake in the William Penn Hotel, echoing through the narrow canyons of Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle. Blasting intermittently shook the slab-side Mellon National Bank and Trust Co. which had hardly trembled through the depression...
Vision of a City. As far as the man in the window was concerned, these were minor irritations. Out of the excavation on Oliver Avenue would rise a 39-story skyscraper, the Mellon-U.S. Steel building, a $28 million token of faith in Pittsburgh's future. In R. K. Mellon's mind's eye was the vision of a whole new city-a second skyscraper, the $10 million, 30-story Alcoa building rising beside a new $4,000,000 green park, other new office buildings rising on the Triangle's point. It was a vision...
Countywide projects costing millions were already started: a new airport, new buildings, new highways, new bridges, new dams along the tributaries of the Allegheny and the Monongahela Rivers. R. K. Mellon himself had helped start them. Even facing the possibility of a paralyzing steel strike last week, Pittsburgh was a city of new hope. Pittsburgh was being rebuilt, restored, rejuvenated...
World of Frick & Mellon. In the 20th Century as in the 19th, Pittsburgh was ruled by money and steel, and by people bearing the names of Frick, Carnegie, Mellon. These were men who had made the city great-and who had left behind the ugly, lordly buildings in the business section, their monuments to Coal, Coke, Iron, Steel, Aluminum, who had left behind their Duquesne Club squatting beside Gimbel's department store, their mansions of monstrous Victorian architecture...