Beginning in the early 1990s, Pittsburgh\'s South Side neighborhood began to transform from the post-industrial morass it had been suffering for the last few decades.
The South Side Beehive though was where the night often began, and weekends ended..
Cappuccinos, thrift shop culture, grunge music, local alternative bands, artists, writers and creative denizens of all stripes would soon enter the city\'s collective conscious.
Across a bridge, in the university community of Oakland, The Upstage, Electric Banana and another Beehive catered to the new youth culture.
East Carson Street was soon home to not just coffeehouses but Slacker, Dee\'s Cafe, Culture Shop, Club Laga and the Lava Lounge.
It was in this landscape that the Beehive Coffeehouse began to attract a new 90s alternative crowd.
Artists began to rent empty apartments, what were once shot-and-a-beer bars became hip dive bars and entrepreneurs found inexpensive real estate to follow their visions.
Beginning in the early 1990s, Pittsburgh\'s South Side neighborhood began to transform from the post-industrial morass it had been suffering for the last few decades
