Bell Telephone Company Pittsburgh Office Snack Bar, 1960

Bell Telephone Company - Pittsburgh office building - 1960

June, 1960: The world is alive. From Architectural Forum, we hear of a snack bar.

The 1,600 employees in the Bell Telephone Company’s brand new Pittsburgh office building can point with pride to their new lounge and snack bar. It’s truly one of the interior “showplaces.” Two Natco products were used extensively to help create this modern center of color, texture and design: (1) Natco roman brick with Wave-Tex finish, and (2) Natco ceramic glazed Vitritile. But modernity is only one of the important qualities of Natco structural clay tile building products. They’re also the most functional building products available. Take Vitritile, for example. Ceramic glazed Vitritile comes in a variety of pleasing, non-fading colors. It’s easy to install and maintain. It’s fireproof, sanitary and will never lose its “brand new” look…

Today, this building, at 201 Stanwix St. Pittsburgh PA, 2020, is an apartment building:

Polished, classic space to make your urban home! With sleek stainless steel appliances, granite countertops, and hardwood floors, among other high-end touches throughout, we’ve laid a modern framework for you to impart your unique, personal style.

201 Stanwix St. Pittsburgh PA, 2020
201 Stanwix St. Pittsburgh PA, 2020

By Lee Wallender

Deception, influence, fakes, illusions, themed environments, simulations, secret places, secret infrastructure, imagined places, dreamscapes, movie sets and props, evasions, camouflage, studio backlots, miniatures.

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