If you’ve been following me for a while, you probably know by now that I’m obsessed with this place. Visited multiple times and forced many friends to trespass with me. One little bit of Penn Hills history that really interested me is the light fixtures, seen here in screenshots from 2009.
Half a century ago, these lampposts dotted the grounds of the 1964-1965 World’s Fair in Queens, an array of whimsical exhibits and rides spread across 646 acres that would become Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. After the fair, a set of the luminaires, as they are known, was shipped 100 miles to Analomink, Pennsylvania, to welcome honeymooners to the Penn Hills. After years of sitting on the Penn Hills property, the colorful cubical World’s Fair lights headed to a private buyer in 2015. A fire damaged the property in 2017 which resulted in the rest of the buildings being demolished soon after. Thankfully these lights were long gone by then. Source