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The page assembles Pittsburgh names, fights, music, and local sayings into a fast neighborhood roll call.

Its method is accumulative rather than linear. Bars, knife fights, players, and streets are all part of the same civic memory, and the line about images taking a long time to show up gives the list a reflective center.

A Pittsburgh roll call run as raw inventory - the Gray Squad, 'Whiskey Hollow', 'Sam Cooke's knife fight', the Moss Motel - that pauses on a real thesis: 'Pittsburgh is a place where it takes a long time for images to show up'. The wry line that you 'got to be a short stop or a Saxophone player to know bull shit; but I give it a try anyway' makes the cataloguing itself the writer's attempt at that knowing.