Brookline Boulevard
(Bodkin Street, Pioneer and Shawhan Avenue)
June - August 1936

Brookline Boulevard - June 1936
This collection of photos were taken to document the completion of the Brookline Boulevard reconstruction
project, which took place in late-1935. During this renovation, the boulevard was re-routed from
Pioneer Avenue to West Liberty, using the Pittsburgh Railways looping right-of-way. Bodkin
Street, formerly the 100-400 block of Brookline Boulevard, was blocked off at Pioneer,
while the Pioneer Avenue/Boulevard intersection was widened and modernized.
Above, looking towards the rebuilt Pioneer Avenue intersection - 6/10/36.

 

Brookline Boulevard - June 1936
June 10, 1936 - Looking towards the Pioneer Avenue intersection.

 

Brookline Boulevard - June 1936
June 23, 1936 - Looking southeast from the intersection with Stebbins Avenue.

 

Brookline Boulevard - June 1936
June 23, 1936 - Looking northwest from the intersection with Stebbins Avenue.

 

Brookline Boulevard - June 1936
June 23, 1936 - Looking southeast from 820 Brookline Boulevard.

 

Brookline Boulevard - June 1936
June 23, 1936 - Looking northwest from 820 Brookline Boulevard.

 

Brookline Boulevard - June 1936
June 23, 1936 - Looking towards the Castlegate Avenue intersection from 628 Brookline Boulevard.

 

Brookline Boulevard - June 1936
June 23, 1936 - Looking towards the Pioneer Avenue intersection from 616 Brookline Boulevard.

 

Brookline Boulevard - June 1936
June 23, 1936 - Looking towards the Castlegate Avenue intersection from 522 Brookline Boulevard.

 

Brookline Boulevard - June 1936
June 23, 1936 - Looking towards the Pioneer Avenue intersection from 522 Brookline Boulevard.

 

Brookline Boulevard - July 1936
July 23, 1936 - The Brookline Boulevard/Pioneer Avenue intersection.

 

Brookline Boulevard - July 1936
July 23, 1936 - The Brookline Boulevard/Pioneer Avenue intersection.

 

Brookline Boulevard - July 1936
July 23, 1936 - The Brookline Boulevard/Pioneer Avenue intersection.

 

Brookline Boulevard - July 1936
July 23, 1936 - The Brookline Boulevard/Pioneer Avenue intersection.

 

Brookline Boulevard - July 1936
July 23, 1936 - The Brookline Boulevard/Pioneer Avenue intersection.

 

Brookline Boulevard - July 1936
July 23, 1936 - The Brookline Boulevard/Pioneer Avenue intersection.

 

Brookline Boulevard - July 1936
July 23, 1936 - The Brookline Boulevard/Pioneer Avenue intersection.

 

Brookline Boulevard - July 1936
July 23, 1936 - Looking towards the Brookline Boulevard/Pioneer Avenue intersection.

 

Brookline Boulevard - July 1936
July 23, 1936 - Looking towards the Brookline Boulevard/Pioneer Avenue intersection.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - Looking up the newer section of Brookline Boulevard towards the Shawhan Avenue intersection.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - The home at 347 Brookline Boulevard.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - The homes at 347 and 351 Brookline Boulevard.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - A view from the new Brookline Boulevard towards the rear of home along
the 300-block of Bodkin Street, the former Brookline Boulevard.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - Looking along Shawhan Avenue from Bodkin Street, in the direction of the new Brookline Boulevard.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - The Shawhan Avenue embankment and the rear of Plainview Avenue homes.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - The home at 312 Bodkin Street, formerly 312 Brookline Boulevard, at the corner with Shawhan Avenue.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - The home at 401 Bodkin Street, formerly 401 Brookline Boulevard.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - Looking up Bodkin Street towards the city steps and the Pioneer Avenue/Brookline Boulevard intersection.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - Looking along Shawhan Avenue, from Brookline Boulevard, towards Bodkin Street.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - Looking along Shawhan Avenue, from Brookline Boulevard, towards Bodkin Street.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - The new Brookline Boulevard, retaining wall/railing and Bodkin Street city steps.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - The home at 400 Bodkin Street, formerly 400 Brookline Boulevard.
as seen from the Brookline Boulevard/Pioneer Avenue intersection.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - The home at 400 Bodkin Street, formerly 400 Brookline Boulevard.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - The home at 400 Bodkin Street, formerly 400 Brookline Boulevard.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - Looking downhill from Parquet Street towards homes at 136, 134 and 132 Bodkin Street,
formerly 136, 134 and 132 Brookline Boulevard. The home at 132 Bodkin no longer stands.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - Looking uphill towards Parquet Street from 136 Bodkin Street, formerly 136 Brookline Boulevard.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - L. S. Stevenson's general store at 136 Bodkin Street, formerly 136 Brookline Boulevard.

 

Brookline Boulevard - June 1936
August 11, 1936 - Ed Seebacher's Sunoco service station at the corner of Brookline Boulevard and West Liberty Avenue.

 

Brookline Boulevard - June 1936
August 11, 1936 - Ed Seebacher's Sunoco service station at the corner of Brookline Boulevard and West Liberty Avenue.

 

Brookline Boulevard - June 1936
August 11, 1936 - Ed Seebacher's Sunoco service station at the corner of Brookline Boulevard and West Liberty Avenue.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - Homes at 230 and 228 Brookline Boulevard, at the intersection with Kenilworth Avenue.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - The homes at 2803, 2005 and 2807 Kenilworth Avenue, next to
Brookline Boulevard, a retaining wall and the Kenilworth Avenue steps.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - The homes at 2803, 2005 and 2807 Kenilworth Avenue, next to
Brookline Boulevard, a retaining wall and the Kenilworth Avenue steps.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - Looking across Brookline Boulevard, from Kenilworth Avenue, towards
the homes at 2816 Kenilworth, and 2803 to 2811 Fitzhugh Way.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - From Kenilworth Avenue, looking towards the home at 230 Brookline Boulevard.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - From Kenilworth Avenue, looking across Brookline Boulevard at 2807 Kenilworth.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - Looking up Brookline Boulevard, towards Shawhan and Pioneer Avenues, from Kenilworth Avenue.
The homes on the left are 347 and 351 Brookline Boulevard.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - The home at 347 Brookline Boulevard.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - The railing along Brookline Boulevard, looking from Pioneer towards Shawhan Avenue.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - Sunoco service station at the corner of Brookline Boulevard and Pioneer Avenue.
Brookline School, built in 1909, is partially visible in the distance.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - Looking towards the Brookline Boulevard/Pioneer Avenue intersection.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - The former Hunter estate nestled in the trees along the
corner of Brookline Boulevard and Pioneer Avenue.

 

Brookline Boulevard - August 1936
August 11, 1936 - Myer's Service Station at the corner of Brookline Boulevard and Pioneer Avenue.

 

Brookline Boulevard, 1936.
1936 - Looking northwest along Brookline Boulevard from Chelton Avenue and the Brookline Monument.

 

Melman's Market - 1936
1936 - Triangle Grocers, at 924 Brookline Boulevard. Street and sidewalk improvements are underway.
This store would later become, for many years, Melman's Super Market.
Photo copied from an edition of the Brookline Journal.

* Photos from the City of Pittsburgh Online Archive and the Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection *

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