The Andy Warhol Bridge
Its birth name is the Seventh Street Bridge. The date on the birth certificate is June 17, 1926.
Slightly over two years later—on August 6, 1928—Andy Warhol the person was born. #BridgesBegetPeople #FirstComesTheBridgeThenComesSuccess #PeopleDrownInRiversWithoutBridgesInsteadOfCrossingBodiesOfWaterToBecomeFamousVisual Artists
He was actually born Andy Warhola and not famous. But he would eventually drop the “a” and become famous.
Just as people have the right to change their direction in life and/or their name, so too do bridges.
Consider this Great Bridge’s biography. Like most, it started from a humble background.
Back in the 1920s the Seventh Street Bridge was never on a Mount Rushmore, similar to Andy Warhola being a person that ate food and breathed oxygen like the rest of us in that roaring decade, but went rather unexalted in his toddler years.
The Seventh Street Bridge would remain a humble servant of steady and trustworthy conveying throughout the remainder of the 21st century.
Then suddenly, on March 18, 2005, the Seventh Street Bridge became the Andy Warhol Bridge, making bridge history as the first Pittsburgh Bridge named after a creative visual artist and eventually the only bridge anywhere in the world named after a creative visual artist to be carved into a Mount Rushmore.
In the spirit of Warhol's contemporary art, in 2013 the Bridge was the focus of the contemporary crafting movement when it got “yarn bombed” when the community Knit the Bridge.
We are pro-yarn bombing because it is neat and fun and brings people together in the greatest community of the world in Pittsburgh and yarn bombing is infinitely more beneficial to the world than more traditionally adjective-less, art-less plain-old bombing bombing.
While this Bridge did not make the Mount Rushmore of Pittsburgh Bridges, it does make this great Mount Rushmore of Pittsburgh Bridges That Did Not Make The Mount Rushmore of Pittsburgh Bridges.
It not only deserves to, it has to. It completes the trifecta.
The world has a history of great trios. Three wishes of a genie. The holy trinity. The Three Stooges.
Admittedly, not all trios produce good in the world.
Some are ambiguous in their morality, like the ear, the nose, and the throat combining to make ENT doctors.
But some trios are simply downright awful.
The “Triplets” of Aikman, Emmitt, and Irvin fueled one of the most successful, most evil NFL dynasties of all time, topping even the Patriots in density of per capita cruelty, albeit not matching their longevity. This terrible trio reached its pinnacle of repugnancy when beating the great Pittsburgh Steelers in the ‘95 Season Super Bowl that saw all-time great Rod Woodson go down in Week 1 with a torn ACL with the Steelers making an unprecedented move to leave a roster spot open for him so he could come back for the Super Bowl as a nickel corner; had he been more than just a shell of himself, we may have defeated the Cowboys and made the world a better place sooner.
The only way to defeat such evil Triplets is with stronger good Triplets (citation: Newtonion Law), of which the Three Sister Bridges in Pittsburgh are. Their stability, sturdiness, steadiness, and studness helped bridge the Steelers to two more Lombardi Trophies since that unfortunate aforementioned Super Bowl loss, while Dallas, with no such Great Bridges, has rightly suffered from a long Super Bowl drought, not even appearing in one since, a Super Bowl desiccation natural in a Great Bridgeless desert lacking the necessary moisture Great Bridges normally need to bridge themselves over.
Discussing the Three Sisters so much in carving out the Andy Warhol Bridge’s place on the prestigious Mount Rushmores of Pittsburgh Bridges is appropriate not only because it completes the Three Sisters’ place on these Mount Rushmores, but also because the Three Sisters Marker is closest to the Andy Warhol Bridge of the three Great Sibling Bridges.
Yes, Hollywood and the Other Internet may boast closer relations to IMDb, but Pittsburgh and the more sweetly intellectual internet are much closer to history, markers thereof, and thus hmdb.
Each of these self-anchoring Sibling Bridges are able on their own to stand tall, all at least three (note yet another use of the magical “three”) feet above 75 feet tall; but they stand even taller (almost a combined 250 in height) and are able to accomplish even more together. #SiblingRivalry:No;SiblingComraderie:Yes
And that–-building three nearly identical self-anchored suspension bridges–-is how you tell a better story about Three Sisters than Charmed.
That is why it is important for siblings to stick together.