08/09 Pittsburgh

Andy Warhol Museum and Primanti Brothers Restaurant, Pittsburgh, PA
Anytime we are near a large city, I love to take a ride in to see the sights. Bob has been very good about accommodating me on this request and I know that it isn’t his favorite way to spend a day. Yesterday, we took a ride into Pittsburgh to see the Andy Warhol Museum and I was not at all disappointed. There we found a collection of his works that we were familiar with before from his creation of works that drew from commercial and pop-cultural images, most famously his Campbell’s Soup Can portraits. The collection at the museum also includes thousand of films, audio tapes, posters, books and other works that he created in his lifetime all nicely archived and displayed for viewing.
We had lunch at an eatery in Pittsburgh called the Primanti Brothers Restaurant which is noted for the 6” high sandwiches that they serve piled high with meat, cheese, coleslaw, tomato and French fries. Unlike anything we have ever had before, it was delicious. This sandwich was invented by the Primanti Bros. back in the 30’s for the night shift workers and truck drivers could work with one hand and eat with the other.