Welcome to Thursday Doors! This is a weekly challenge for people who love doors and architecture to come together to admire and share their favorite door photos, drawings, or other images or stories from around the world. If you’d like to join us, simply create your own Thursday Doors post each (or any) week and then share a link to your post in the comments below, anytime between 12:01 am Thursday morning and Saturday noon (North American eastern time). If you like, you can add our badge to your post.
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Thursday Doors is officially back. Before I share my doors, I have some announcements. 1) We are still collecting images for the upcoming 5th Annual Thursday Doors Writing Challenge which begins on May 1st. If you want the full scoop, check out the announcement I made last week. If you want the short version, leave me a link to a door photo you want to contribute, or send them (up to three) to noFacilities at gmail dot Com – You know… 2) If you want to help someone choose her doors, Teagan is asking for some help. Click here and help her decide.
Today’s feature photo is the entrance to the Eat’n Park restaurant in Bridgeville, PA. That’s where I was born, and it’s our favorite Eat’n Park. Last year, it was closed. They were tearing it down to rebuild it. It opened a few months ago.
While I was on my break, our daughter and I visited Pittsburgh, PA. Last year, Faith and I discovered (and climbed) a few sets of Pittsburgh’s famous steps. Pittsburgh has more than 800 sets of steps to help people navigate the various hills that surround and make up the city. This year, as we were planning our hikes, I discovered that the Pittsburgh suburb of Beechview holds the Guinness Book of Records for having the steepest street in the continental United States — of course, we had to walk up that street.
Canton Avenue boasts a 37% grade. It’s not very long, but walking up is still a challenge. Faith walked the half blacktop / half cobblestone street. I walked the steps. Once at the top, Faith walked back down and back up — I waited at the top and cheered her on. As you can see from the map, Canton Ave. wasn’t the only hill involved.
The photos show the road we parked on — I would consider it to be steep. Once at the top of Canton Ave., we found a set of steps going up Hampshire Ave. then back down Alverado Ave to our car. Once in the car, I drove up Canton Ave. My car asked me never to do that again.
We did some other interesting hikes, but this is Thursday Doors, so let’s move onto the doors. Also, I hope you have time to visit some of the other participants contributions. We get doors from all over the world, and they are fun to look at.
All five of my current books are now available in audio book form thanks to Amazon KDP’s Virtual Voice process. The voice is AI generated, but I can honestly say, it’s pretty darn good. The audio books are reasonably priced (all below $7 US) and, if you already own the Kindle version and want to add an audio version, you can do that for $1.99. There is a five-minute sample on the book page for each book. If you’re interested, click on any of the Dreamer’s Alliance book links below the image or on the link below for my latest book.
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