The World’s Richest Neighborhood: How Pittsburgh’s East Enders Forged American Industry

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The residents of Pittsburgh’s East End controlled as much a 40% of The usa’s assets on the turn of the last century. Mail used to be delivered seven times a day to keep The usa’s greatest capitalists in touch with their factories, banks, and markets. The neighborhood had its own private station of the Pennsylvania Railroad with a day-to-day non-stop express to New York’s financial district. The various world’s most powerful men – princes, artists, politicians, scientists, and American Presidents such as William McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, William Taft, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover, came visiting the hard-working and high-flying captains of industry. Two major corporations, Standard Oil and ALCOA Aluminum were formed in East End homes. It used to be the first neighborhood to adopt the phone with direct lines from the homes to the biggest banks in Pittsburgh, which on the time used to be The usa’s fifth largest city. The story of this neighborhood is a story of The usa at its greatest point of wealth and includes rags-to-riches stories, political corruption, scandals, and greed. The history of this unique piece of American geography makes for enjoyable reading which will satisfy a big cross component of readers.

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