President Obama will visit Pittsburgh on Tuesday, exactly 71 years after FDR made a celebrated trip here in the final weeks of the 1940 election.
I made stills from a movie of FDR's visit and shared them last year around this time.
According to a Post-Gazette article from October 8th, he was in town to dedicate the Terrace Village housing project in the Hill District. City and county workers were given a half-day off. The parade route went through Swissvale, Rankin, Homestead, West Homestead, and part of the South Side. Also apparently East Liberty (where his train arrived) and Penn Avenue downtown (from where it departed).
Here's an October 11th article from the evening run of the Pittsburgh Press. Lots of detail about the visit there (including the text of his speech).
Also in that 10-minute silent clip is footage of Eleanor Roosevelt visiting Pittsburgh for a luncheon.
Some headlines from that day: