PITTSBURGH — Only in Pittsburgh can a catastrophe that makes national news beget a Christmas tree ornament — 3,221 sold as of Tuesday for $10 each from handmade goods vendor Etsy, Inc.
Like the Sinkhole Bus of 2019, the collapse of the Fern Hollow Bridge in January spawned Pittsburgh-centric memes, including the handmade ornament depicting a miniature articulating bus being lifted out of a Frick Park ravine by a crane.
With its reopening Thursday, the Fern Hollow Bridge disaster joins the Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus that was trapped in a huge Downtown sinkhole in frameable prints, photographs — even doughnut toppings — all to laugh in the face of tragedy with a little yinzer pride.
