It opened in the late summer of 1979, weeks before I turned 21. Heaven wasn't in a bank, it was actually in the lobby of the Fulton Building, which is now the hotel. It was filled with little privately owned shops and eateries. I recall walking through a bank vault doorway in the hallway or as an entrance into one of the shops.
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It was like a little mini mall made from those old bank buildings. The buildings connected in the back somehow, that's why all of those little stores on the corner of Wood and Forbes remain even though there was a "center" taking up the block.
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There may have been an entrance on 4th but I never used it if ther was.
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The Wood Street entrance is the current University Center for Point Park. Explore decades of artworks and collections of the Pittsburgh-native Andy Warhol, who openly expressed his queer identity and life in art.Heaven was located in the current Renaissance Hotel.
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Pittsburgh Pride takes place each year in early June and is one of the oldest pride events in the United States with the first parade taking place only four years after the Stonewall riots in New York City.