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19 unusual facts about Pittsburgh


1989–90 Pittsburgh Penguins season

The 41st National Hockey League All-Star Game was held in Civic Arena in Pittsburgh, home to the Pittsburgh Penguins, on January 21, 1990.

Anne Pride

she coined the term "Take Back the Night" in a memorial she read at an anti-violence rally in Pittsburgh.

Aubrey Pankey

Aubrey W. Pankey (Pittsburgh, 1905 - Teltow, East Germany death by automobile accident 1971) was an American baritone and noted Lieder singer in 1930s Germany.

CentiMark

CentiMark is a commercial and industrial roofing contractor with headquarters in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh.

Charles Reizenstein Company

The Reizenstein family business was used as a means for philanthropic work in Allegheny and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Don Hennon

Don Leroy Hennon (born c. 1938) is a surgeon and a former basketball player for the University of Pittsburgh Panthers basketball team, where he was a two-time Consensus All-American.

Fitzgerald Field House

Fitzgerald Field House is a 4,122-seat multi-purpose athletic venue on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

Frick Park Market

The song is named after Frick Park Market, a food store in Mac Miller's hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at which the rapper once worked.

Live Forever: The Stanley Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA, September 23, 1980

The live album was recorded at Pittsburgh's Stanley Theatre during the Uprising Tour to support their then latest album of the same name.

Penguin Pete

While Iceburgh's name is a play on both iceberg and Pittsburgh, not reviving the Penguin Pete name was likely done to avoid confusion with the mascot of the same name at Youngstown State University in nearby Youngstown, Ohio.

Pittsburgh, Kingston

It includes the east side of the UNESCO-listed Rideau Canal at Kingston Mills (site of the infamous Shafia family murders), hosts a handful of motels serving Ontario Highway 15 and former Ontario Highway 2, a federal prison (Pittsburgh and Joyceville Institutions in Joyceville, Ontario) and three museums (Military Communications and Electronics Museum, RMC Museum and McLaughlin Woodworking Museum).

Pittsburgh, Westmoreland and Somerset Railroad

The railroad ran through land that today comprises Linn Run State Park.

Using current-day points of reference, this is where Linn Run Road intersects the eastern boundary of Linn Run State Park.

Redcliff, Alberta

Access to this inexpensive resource led to Redcliff being promoted as the "Smokeless Pittsburgh of the West".

Richard G. Jewell

Jewell is known throughout the Pittsburgh region for his leadership in numerous civic groups.

Sunbeam Products

of Pittsburgh, most of the Chicago-area factories were closed and the headquarters moved from the Chicago region.

Vincent Bach Corporation

While Bach was on tour in Pittsburgh in 1918, a repairman destroyed his mouthpiece, and Bach began experimenting with mouthpiece repair and fabrication.

WKBS-TV

Owned by Cornerstone Television, the station is effectively a satellite of Cornerstone's flagship station, WPCB-TV in Pittsburgh.

Xanopticon

Ryan Friedrich (born July 14, 1980 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States), better known by his moniker Xanopticon, is an electronic musician.


2006 Denver Broncos season

Pittsburgh again, down by 11 nearly made it a 4-point game when WR Hines Ward leapt into the end zone, but fumbled from a John Lynch (American football) tackle, whereby the Broncos safety Curome Cox recovered the fumble.

2011–12 Cornell Big Red women's ice hockey season

The players that have committed to join the Big Red include Jessica Brown (of the Pittsburgh Elite), Kelly Murray, Victoria Pittens, Cassandra Poudrier (from Dawson College), Morgan Richardson (older sister of the late Daron Richardson), and Anna Zorn.

Alfred E. Hunt

His career would eventually take him to Pittsburgh doing metallurgical work for the Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory, which he would acquire in partnership with the young chemist, George Hubbard Clapp, in 1887.

Allegheny County belt system

Prior to its acquisition by the Chevron Corporation in 1980, the Gulf Oil Corporation, with headquarters in Pittsburgh, published a map of Allegheny County prominently displaying the Belt System.

B. F. Jones House

It was once the home of Benjamin Franklin Jones, who was one of the founders of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company.

Baseball's Last Hero: 21 Clemente Stories

It is the first feature dramatic film on Clemente's life and was written and directed by California filmmaker and Pittsburgh native Richard Rossi and stars two-time Olympian high-jumper Jamie Nieto in the title role of Roberto Clemente and Marilinda Rivera as his wife Vera Clemente.

Charley Burley

An exhibit at the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum at Pittsburgh's Senator Heinz History Center states that Burley was the model for the character Troy in August Wilson's play Fences.

Cornell High School

Cornell High School is a public high school located in the borough of Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh in Allegheny County in the state of Pennsylvania.

County of Allegheny v. American Civil Liberties Union

Since 1981, the Holy Name Society of Pittsburgh had placed a crèche on the grand staircase of the Allegheny County Courthouse.

CV Productions, Inc.

“The Sports Museum has brought to light the central role that Pittsburgh has played in the sports of boxing and wrestling, focusing on such greats as Bruno Sammartino and Kurt Angle,” said Anne Madarasz, co-director of the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum.

Dapper Dan Open

It was sponsored by Dapper Dan Charities, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based charitable organization founded in 1936 as a businessman's sports club by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette sports editor Al Abrams.

Ed Salamon

Salamon’s first book ‘’Pittsburgh’s Golden Age of Radio’’, was published in 2010 by Arcadia Publishing, a leading publisher of local history books in Mt. Pleasant, SC.

Elizabeth Forward High School

Located just south of the city of Pittsburgh, the district lies between the Youghiogheny River and Monongahela River valleys in the southernmost region of Allegheny County.

Finnegan Foundation

Founders of the foundation included: Pittsburgh Mayor Joe Barr, Commonwealth Judge Genevieve Blatt, Democratic National Committeewoman Louise M. John, Pennsylvania Gov. David Lawrence, U.S. Ambassador Matthew H. McCloskey II, U.S. Ambassador John Rice, and Pennsylvania State Treasurer Grace M. Sloan.

FoodLand

Part of this effort included ads placed along the walls of the rink at the Civic Arena for the Pittsburgh Penguins during their Stanley Cup championship years in the early 1990s.

Grant Street Station

Grant Street Station, also known as the B&O Pittsburgh Terminal, was a passenger rail station on Grant Street downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Greg Lloyd, Sr.

He is also well known for using an expletive in a nationally televised interview with NBC's Jim Gray after Pittsburgh defeated the Indianapolis Colts in the 1995 AFC Championship.

Harold Corsini

In 1950, he accompanied Stryker to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and assisted him as head of the photographic department at the Pittsburgh Photographic Library.

History of the Jews in Pittsburgh

There are no reliable records of the beginnings of the Jewish community; but it has been ascertained that between 1838 and 1844 a small number of Jews, mostly from Baden, Bavaria, and Württemberg, settled in and around Pittsburgh.

Jerry Clack

The son of Mildred Taylor Van Dyke of Pittsburgh and Christopher Thrower Clack of Boydton, Virginia, Clack was born in New York City on July 22, 1926.

John Connelly

John E. Connelly (1926–2009), Pittsburgh casino and riverboat owner

John Haymaker

Haymaker and his family, who were of German descent, moved west from Pittsburgh to Franklin Township in the Connecticut Western Reserve on the banks of the Cuyahoga River in early November 1805, shortly after Ohio had become a state.

John Kane

The next year, however, Kane found a champion in painter–juror Andrew Dasburg, who persuaded the jury to accept Kane’s Scene in the Scottish Highlands (Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh).

John M. Snowden

Snowden served terms as Allegheny County Recorder and Treasurer before being elected mayor of Pittsburgh in 1825.

John Steigerwald

John worked on the sports anchor team at WTAE-TV (ABC), along with other Pittsburgh notables such as Myron Cope and Bill Hillgrove.

Katy Easterday

From 1929 to 1933, Easterday coached football and basketball at Kittanning High School, located 44 miles (71 km) northeast of Pittsburgh.

Kemba Walker

In the 2011 Big East Tournament (during his junior year), Walker hit the game winning shot as time expired to beat #3 overall Pittsburgh and advance UConn to the semi-finals.

Lamar, South Carolina

Levon Kirkland, former NFL football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers

Maine Central class K 0-6-0

World War I caused 1918 production to be split between builders numbers 57883 and 57884 from Schenectady, and 59865 and 59866 from ALCO's Pittsburgh plant.

Mayor Murphy

Thomas J. Murphy, Jr. (born August 15, 1944), mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Michelle Madoff

Caliguiri was serving as President of Pittsburgh City Council and became mayor when Peter Flaherty was appointed Deputy Attorney General of the United States in the Jimmy Carter Presidential Administration.

Mihai Gavrilă

He studied also a visiting scholar at several major physics centers around the world: Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, JINR (at Dubna in Russia), Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, JILA (Boulder, Colorado, USA), International Centre for Theoretical Physics, ICTP (Trieste in Italy), and the University of Pittsburgh, (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA).

National Supermarkets

At its height, National's footprint extended from western Pennsylvania to Colorado, with stores in Denver, Sioux Falls, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, the Quad Cities, Indianapolis, Chicago, Youngstown, Memphis, and Nashville.

Pittsburgh Associates

The Associates were spearheaded by popular Pittsburgh Mayor Richard S. Caliguiri and some prominent corporate leaders of such companies as Westinghouse, PPG, United States Steel, PNC, Mellon Financial, Carnegie Mellon University and Ryan Homes.

Pittsburgh Playhouse

The joint venture between Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh Playhouse, and William Ball was dissolved when Ball moved the ACT to San Francisco.

Pittsburgh Senior Classic

It was played in the greater Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area; first in Midway, Pennsylvania at the Quicksilver Golf Club (1993-1997) and then in Sewickley Heights, Pennsylvania at the Sewickley Heights Golf Club.

Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival

The Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival is a week long film festival founded in 2006 by filmmaker and artist Harish Saluja and held every May during Asian American Heritage Month in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to show mostly recent films and music by artists with Asian ethnic origins, such as from Japan, China, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Korea, and the Philippines.

Stefan Schwartz

From there to Pittsburgh to direct Chloe Sevigny and James Darcy in "Those Who Kill", and then to South Africa to shoot the first episode of "Black Sails" for Starz, (second season).

Steve Rexe

In an interview with an Ottawa Sun reporter in April 2008, Rexe stated that he considered it an honour to have been the first ever pick of the Pittsburgh Penguins and would have been delighted if the Pens would have invited him to Pittsburgh to drop the first puck when they open their new arena.

The Suitcase Royale

Chronicles was shown at the Andy Warhol Memorial Theatre in Pittsburgh, PA in November 2007.

Tri-state area

Three other prominent areas that have been labeled tri-state areas are the Cincinnati tri-state area, including Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana; the Pittsburgh tri-state area, covering parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia; and the Chicago tri-state area, also known as Chicagoland, which includes Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.

TRIC

Three Rivers Inline Club, a not-for-profit inline skating club in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Wheel 2000

The tour visited a variety of major market cities: Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington D.C., New York City, Charlotte, Dallas, Denver, Salt Lake City, Seattle, San Jose, and Anaheim.

William Winter

William J. Winter (born 1930), Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Pittsburgh

WKBS-TV

call letters = WKBS-TV
(satellite of WPCB-TV, Greensburg/Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)|

Work Hard, Play Hard

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Steve Breaston, who graduated from Woodland Hills High School just outside of Pittsburgh, also appears in the video.