Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tVisitors to Pittsburgh are amazed by the Strip District, while the locals are proud of what it offers, especially on the eve of Thanksgiving.Marla Saikali brought her mother, who is visiting from Jacksonville, Florida, to the Strip.”It’s a cultural mix. You walk over, there’s this Italian market, there’s this place, Asian store, middle eastern store,” she says.Penn Mac and Wholey’s are two of the neighborhood’s iconic markets, with Penn Mac offering more than 400 cheese selections.”My cousins came here from L.A., and they brought a coworker with them, and we’re in here and he’s filming everything. He said, ‘My wife would kill for a place like this in L.A.,” said Mary Louise Fowkes.Traditional grocery stores will always have their usual flow of shoppers the day before Thanksgiving, but people like Mary Jo Goodrich, who crave that unique Strip District experience will always make it a priority on their to-do list.”Different assortments of cheese, the people, the smells, the music, laughter, everything,” Goodrich said. “My daughter just said to me, she loves coming down here because of the music, all the different people.”\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Visitors to Pittsburgh are amazed by the Strip District, while the locals are proud of what it offers, especially on the eve of Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n
Marla Saikali brought her mother, who is visiting from Jacksonville, Florida, to the Strip.<\/p>\n
“It’s a cultural mix. You walk over, there’s this Italian market, there’s this place, Asian store, middle eastern store,” she says.<\/p>\n
Penn Mac and Wholey’s are two of the neighborhood’s iconic markets, with Penn Mac offering more than 400 cheese selections.<\/p>\n
“My cousins came here from L.A., and they brought a coworker with them, and we’re in here and he’s filming everything. He said, ‘My wife would kill for a place like this in L.A.,” said Mary Louise Fowkes.<\/p>\n
Traditional grocery stores will always have their usual flow of shoppers the day before Thanksgiving, but people like Mary Jo Goodrich, who crave that unique Strip District experience will always make it a priority on their to-do list.<\/p>\n
“Different assortments of cheese, the people, the smells, the music, laughter, everything,” Goodrich said. “My daughter just said to me, she loves coming down here because of the music, all the different people.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DISTRICT, TRAFFIC IS TIGHT. PARKING IS A PREMIUM. SO TOO IS THE SHOPPING EXPERIENCE. EVERYTHING. THE DIFFERENT ASSORTMENTS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[27066,9286,27064,4329,13504,27068,27069,7865,4808,27060,27061,523,73,75,74,5608,2731,27065,1274,27063,27067,27062],"class_list":{"0":"post-45718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-asian-store","9":"tag-cheese","10":"tag-cheese-selection","11":"tag-day","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-marla-saikali","14":"tag-middle-eastern-store","15":"tag-music","16":"tag-penn-avenue","17":"tag-penn-mac","18":"tag-pennsylvania-macaroni-company","19":"tag-people","20":"tag-pittsburgh","21":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","22":"tag-pittsburgh-news","23":"tag-place","24":"tag-strip-district","25":"tag-tasty-thanksgiving-experience","26":"tag-thanksgiving","27":"tag-thanksgiving-shopper","28":"tag-usual-flow","29":"tag-wholeys"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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