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23-576: Located at 4400 Bigelow Boulevard , it held numerous events over the years, mainly highlighted by concerts of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and numerous internationally recognized music performers, as well as comedians and political rallies and speeches. In addition to the main theater, events also took place in the building's smaller "Syria Mosque Ballroom" space. The Medinah Temple in Chicago (constructed one year after this building by

46-431: A Moorish memory. Excitedly, I took a youthful step towards the lobby, when my host turned around and said, "This is not the kind of mosque in which you bend up and down facing Mecca. This is a meeting hall–theater built by Shriners, a nice bunch of people who build hospitals for [disabled] children and raise money through parades and circuses." On January 11, 1949, from 8:30 pm to 11 pm EST , KDKA-TV (then WDTV and part of

69-606: A large traffic circle known as Penn Circle. PA 380 exits the circle onto Penn Avenue running southeast into the Larimer neighborhood. In Point Breeze , PA 380 overlaps PA 8 for two blocks , from Fifth Avenue to Dallas Avenue; PA 380 turns north onto Dallas Avenue while PA 8 continues on Penn Avenue. In the Homewood South area, PA 380 turns east onto Bennett Street. A few miles east, the route becomes Frankstown Road in East Hills ,

92-718: A rural portion of the municipality of Monroeville and continues into Plum Borough. The route spends only a little over four miles in Allegheny County before crossing the Allegheny/Westmoreland county line. The route continues north before turning east at the intersection of PA 380 , where the two routes exchange the Golden Mile Highway and Saltsburg Road in the town of Murrysville. The route continues east in Westmoreland County, where it crosses over PA 66 in

115-469: A vertical neon sign that said in no uncertain terms “Syria Mosque.” Parking the car, we approached the building. I was fascinated, albeit with some premonition. I was riveted by the cursive Arabic calligraphy on the building: la ghalib il-Allah, “There is no victor but Allah,” the well-known refrain [inscribed on the walls of] Granada ’s Alhambra . Horseshoe arches, horizontal bands of different colored bricks, decorative terra-cotta—all were devices to invoke

138-599: Is a 32.80-mile-long (52.8 km) state highway in western portions of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania . The western terminus of the route is at Interstate 579 in downtown Pittsburgh near PPG Paints Arena . The eastern terminus is at Pennsylvania Route 286 in Bell Township , near the hamlet of Wakena. When it was first assigned in the late 1920s, PA 380 occupied only the portion of its modern alignment between PA 286 in Murrysville and PA 286 west of Saltsburg . It

161-655: Is at U.S. Route 22 (US 22) in Monroeville . The eastern terminus is at US 219 near Burnside . PA 286 is designated by multiple names along its route, including the Golden Mile Highway, Saltsburg Road, Washington Street, Salt Street, Main Street, Oakland Avenue, Philadelphia Street, and Franklin Street. Although it is signed east–west, the route takes a more northeast–southwest direction, especially in Indiana and Clearfield counties. The route starts at an interchange at US 22 in

184-603: The Allegheny - Westmoreland County line, PA 380 was signed as PA 80. By 1940, PA 80 was extended west onto Bigelow Boulevard, Baum Boulevard, and Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh , modern designations of PA 380. By 1960, PA 380 replaced most of PA 80 from Dallas and Penn Avenues in Pittsburgh to Murrysville. On July 15, 1960, PA 380 replaced all of PA 80 from Interstate 479 (now I-579 ) to Dallas and Penn Avenues. This designation change

207-500: The DuMont Television Network ) began its initial broadcast on its "network" centered in Pittsburgh. The program began with a one-hour local show broadcast from Syria Mosque, then finished with 90 minutes from ABC , CBS , NBC , and DuMont, featuring stars such as Arthur Godfrey , Milton Berle , DuMont host Ted Steele, and many other celebrities. The station also represented a milestone in the television industry, providing

230-509: The easternmost neighborhood in the city Pittsburgh. Frankstown Road leads 380 out of the city and into the eastern suburban area. In the Penn Hills hamlet of Laketon Heights, the route intersects PA 130 . In the hamlet of Rodi, PA 380 meets the northern terminus of PA 791 and begins an overlap with the Yellow Belt . Both routes take a more northern alignment into the northeastern portions of

253-519: The first "network" of a coaxial cable feed that included Pittsburgh and 13 other cities from Boston to St. Louis . Despite community efforts to have the building designated a historic landmark, the Syria Mosque was torn down on August 27, 1991. The site serves as a parking lot for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center . Plans were announced that University of Pittsburgh would acquire it from

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276-569: The four-lane Bigelow Boulevard. In the neighborhood of Polish Hill , PA 380 intersects the Bloomfield Bridge via eastbound ramp and westbound at-grade intersection ; the bridge connects to Liberty Avenue and the Bloomfield neighborhood. In the North Oakland neighborhood of the city, PA 380 turns east becoming Baum Boulevard. In East Liberty , the route splits into one-way pairs around

299-510: The hamlet of North Washington. East of 66, PA 380 winds its way along the northern banks of the Beaver Run Reservoir and terminates at PA 286, a few miles west of Saltsburg . In the late 1920s and early 1930s, PA 380 was first designated from Pennsylvania Route 80 in Murrysville to the current eastern terminus. From U.S. Route 22 and U.S. Route 30 at the intersection of Dallas and Penn Avenues in Pittsburgh to Murrysville near

322-524: The highway interchanges PA 286 . PA 380 then proceeds on a northeast course along the Golden Mile Highway, a multi-lane divided highway with access ramps. Near Rolling Fields Golf Club, PA 380 interchanges PA 366 . Past the interchange, the highway continues on its northeast alignment. In the Westmoreland Business Research Park area, PA 380 intersects the eastern terminus of PA 780 . The route proceeds eastward to interchange PA 66 in

345-530: The medical center in 2016. Among the concert events: Among the political events: 40°26′44″N 79°57′19″W  /  40.445477°N 79.955149°W  / 40.445477; -79.955149 Pennsylvania Route 380 Pennsylvania Route 380 (officially, SR 400 because of I-380 elsewhere in Pennsylvania ), also known as J.F. Bonetto Memorial Highway and within the city of Pittsburgh Bigelow Boulevard , Baum Boulevard and Frankstown Road ,

368-468: The route before its designation in 1961 included PA 13 from Saltsburg to Indiana, and PA 80 from PA 380 to US 219 and US 22 to PA 380. Since its establishment, the route has stayed on the same roads. Pennsylvania Route 286 Truck is a 7-mile-long (11 km) truck route in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. The route starts at the interchange of PA 286 on US 422/PA 56. After a short distance,

391-604: The route continues northeast. Following a short concurrency with PA 403 in Clymer, and an intersection with PA 240 in the village of Commodore, the route continues northeast, passing through Glen Campbell It then crosses the Clearfield county line after spending about 50 miles in Indiana County. The route continues northeast for a short distance before terminating at an intersection with US 219 in Burnside Township Some of

414-419: The same firm) is a similar building still in existence (though now converted to retail space). Despite community efforts to have Syria Mosque designated a historic landmark, the building was demolished August 27, 1991. Pakistani-Canadian architect Gulzar Haider described the appearance of the building circa 1960: As we turned onto a minor street on the University of Pittsburgh campus, [my host] pointed to

437-428: The town of Saltsburg. Before entering the borough of Indiana, the route has an intersection with PA 217 outside of the village of Jacksonville, where it terminates. It also connects with an interchange with US 422 / PA 56 and intersects with US 422 Business , both just outside Indiana. The route enters the borough from the southwest, and has a short concurrency with PA 954 in downtown. After passing under US 119 ,

460-695: The township. Near the Alcoma Golf Club, PA 380 leaves the Yellow Belt, while turning east onto Saltsburg Road. Roughly east of the Pennsylvania Turnpike overpass in the borough of Plum , PA 380 begins an overlap with the Orange Belt at the intersection with Center Road near Boyce Park . At the New Texas Road junction, the belt turns north and leaves PA 380. As PA 380 enters Westmoreland County ,

483-551: The village of Mamont (accessible by Pfeffer Road southbound or Mamont Road). It then intersects PA 819 in Bell Township, and PA 380 in the village of Wakena, where it terminates. The route then has a short concurrency with PA 981 before crossing the Kiskiminetas River and entering the town of Saltsburg, Indiana County, after covering roughly 15.5 miles in Westmoreland County. The route starts going northeast after exiting

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506-729: Was later extended westward over the former routing of PA 80 to Pittsburgh . PA 380 begins along the ramps of the Bigelow Boulevard and Interstate 579 interchange in Downtown Pittsburgh , north of the former Civic Arena complex. The route proceeds east traversing Ammon Playground park in the Hill District. PA 380 also parallels Norfolk Southern 's Pittsburgh Line and the PRT 's Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway on this section of

529-580: Was made to reduce the number of concurrent routes in Pittsburgh. The changes took effect a few months later and signs were changed by spring 1961. The reason for doing this was because Interstate 80 was created, so PA 80 was removed so there would not be two Route 80s. Pennsylvania Route 286 Pennsylvania Route 286 ( PA 286 ) is a 69-mile-long (111 km), east–west state highway located in Allegheny , Westmoreland , Indiana , and Clearfield counties in Pennsylvania . The western terminus

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