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Old and not in the way. Enjoy a slice of Old Pittsburgh. Follow and share to help grow the pie.

Joined February 2020
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Seasonโ€™s Greetings from 1983 & WTAE
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Homestead should do the same
This is a brilliant way to showcase Wilkinsburg skipthetunnel.com/
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As many an author knows, most early tomes that get drafted eventually get whittled down long before publication. In my recent book I had a whole chapter on Pittsburgh long before steel defined it. With July 4th almost here, and much of that history flowing around the Revolutionary War, I thought I would put this 'lost chapter' out there. Enjoy: briem.medium.com/the-lost-chโ€ฆ
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Pittsburgh is excited by the #Pirates. So quit the interviews from the stands with players dads when game in progress. People want to see the Pirates. Can you imagine an NFL game where they interviewed a playerโ€™s father while the game was in progress?
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Freeing up parking is taking extra long in Pittsburgh after near-record snow. City hired contractors to help but still a lot to go. After shoveling my spot out earlier I decided to shovel out another for exercise. Instead of waiting around and complaining, letโ€™s start a trend ๐Ÿงต
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October, 1930 - Notre Dame visits Pitt for only meeting of legendary coaches Knute Rockne and Jock Sutherland. Over 75,000 at Pitt Stadium, hundreds of fake tickets in circulation made for a chaotic scene at the gates. ND won 35-19.
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Whatโ€™s fascinating is that the old Gilbertโ€™s sign isnโ€™t fading away as much as it is emerging as more recent paint covering it up weathers away.
Downtown Pittsburgh has gotten so dangerous that Gilbertโ€™s was forced to close. But Carl Hermann Furs is still hanging on.
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Sloane Davidson, founder and CEO of Hello Neighbor, a Pittsburgh non-profit joins us on WPXI's "Our Region's Business," Sunday at 11 Channel 11. She and Jenny Booth of Kimpton Hotel Monaco make the case for migrants to help solve our region's population and workforce challenges.
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Mellon Square, Smithfield Street, late-1960s
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A @cmu_bme-led team of researchersย has received an @ARPA_H award of up to $34.9 million to fast track the development and testing of a bioelectric medicine-based treatment to more affordably treat patients with obesity and Type 2 diabetes. @cmu_mse engineering.cmu.edu/news-eveโ€ฆ
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Photos from the Roberto Clemente exhibit outside Yankee Stadium
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Iโ€™m wondering where his African American memorabilia is? Hope it stays together & is given a home by a local arts org
Replying to @SheDidWhatPGH
3/ JaQuay Edward Carter graces local history nerds (me) with facts that he regularly uncovers, so I passed Bikoโ€™s art on to him. It is a comfort to know that itโ€™s in the hands of a young historian who will cherish it til itโ€™s his time to pass it forward.
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Route: finalized & walked-through. Prompts: polished. If you're in the Pittsburgh area, hope you can join us for a lovely Friday evening in Bloomfield! Details at the link below: shiftworkspgh.org/event/walkโ€ฆ
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Hidden gems in Brighton Heights
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July 31 2019 My Last Radio Broadcast Ever. I lost my memory after my 2nd open heart surgery in 2018, So I had to retire. Image 1 L-R: Chad Tyson, Herschel, Donnie Iris, me, Jimmy Roach. Image 2: Mayor Bill Peduto. Image 3: Val Porter Image 4: STAN! GUY! LOVE THE SHOW!
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South Hills Village Birdcage
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Kids from that era remember putting their feet up on the ledge and hanging back straight-armed, hands on the rail
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