On This Day in Pittsburgh History: February 19, 1968
“Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” the longest-running program on public television, premieres in America. [Family Communications, Inc.; The Neighborhood Archive]
![Monongahela House — Pittsburgh students inspecting room occupied by President-elect Abraham Lincoln [Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh]
The Heinz History Center’s exhibition Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War and Lincoln Slept Here featured Lincoln’s bed and bedroom set from the Monongahela House, the downtown Pittsburgh hotel that hosted the president-elect en route to his inauguration on Feb. 14, 1861.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz4waa6x411qakblyo1_500.gif)
Monongahela House — Pittsburgh students inspecting room occupied by President-elect Abraham Lincoln [Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh]
The Heinz History Center’s exhibition Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War and Lincoln Slept Here featured Lincoln’s bed and bedroom set from the Monongahela House, the downtown Pittsburgh hotel that hosted the president-elect en route to his inauguration on Feb. 14, 1861.
![Exit of His Hogship and His Wife, The Pittsburg Press, Feb. 2, 1888
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: February 2, 1887
Groundhog Day, featuring a rodent meteorologist, is celebrated for the first time at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. [History.com]
According to tradition, if a groundhog comes out of its hole on this day and sees its shadow, there will be six more weeks of winter weather; no shadow means an early spring.Groundhog Day has its roots in the ancient Christian tradition of Candlemas Day, when clergy would bless and distribute candles needed for winter. The candles represented how long and cold the winter would be. Germans expanded on this concept by selecting an animal—the hedgehog—as a means of predicting weather. Once they came to America, German settlers in Pennsylvania continued the tradition, although they switched from hedgehogs to groundhogs, which were plentiful in the Keystone State.
Punxsutawney Phil, supposedly named in honor of Prince Phillip, was also called “Br’er Groundhog” and “His Hogship” in early newspaper accounts. Clymer Freas, editor of the local paper and member of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, “used his editorial clout to proclaim that Phil, the Punxsutawney Groundhog, was the one and only official weather prognosticating groundhog.”
From The Pittsburg Press, Feb. 2, 1888:
THE GROUNDHOG ON TOP: A CLOUDY SKY GREETS HIM TODAY
Away back in the times when the neighborhood about and upon which Pittsburgers [sic] still perambulate was a medieval forest, with only a log to be seen in miles of travel, the hardy backwoodsmen used to wager their most valued possessions upon the veracity of the legend that if the groundhog saw its shadow on Feb. 2, he would retire into his hole and and Boreas would blow his blast for six weeks longer. (…)
Some overpolite Yankee, shocked by the harsh sound of the word hog, undertook to establish the word “woodchuck,” but it was no go. The groundhog of our fathers was good enough for us, and the iconoclastic Yankee has transmitted his word only to college professors and New York dudines.
As other cities began to host Groundhog Day festivities, Punxsutawney Phil faced national competition and prompted debate about the legitimacy of these events in the age of science and weather-casting.
From The Pittsburg Press, Feb. 2, 1913:
Will he see his shadow today? He will. Who says so? Forecaster Pennywitt. This means six more weeks of cold weather. Some folks say, “De sun do move;” others say it doesn’t. There are many doubting Thomases of the world. Some are even such brazen heretics as to scoff at a belief in Groundhog day. However, they’d better not air such views in Punxsatawney or its purlieus today. For today’s the day, Feb. 2, Groundhog day, when this noble, retiring, unassuming animal comes into his own as the boss weather forecaster of the “hull kentry.” Weather maps, wind gauges, barometers and thermometers are all right as far as they go; they’re good enough for a mere weather office, and perhaps help to indicate what’s to be what for the next 12 hours or so; but when it comes to foretelling the weather for a full six weeks ahead, they’re all put in the shade by old reliable Groundhog.
Other facts: In 1928, Groundhog Day was broadcast from KDKA radio in Pittsburgh from Punxsatawney. And during most of World War II, no Groundhog Day events were held because, as one Punxsatawney Club member remembered in 1963, “the Government asked us not to reveal the forecast because it would aid the enemy.”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyq7fe9KsB1qakblyo1_500.png)
Exit of His Hogship and His Wife, The Pittsburg Press, Feb. 2, 1888
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: February 2, 1887
Groundhog Day, featuring a rodent meteorologist, is celebrated for the first time at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. [History.com]
According to tradition, if a groundhog comes out of its hole on this day and sees its shadow, there will be six more weeks of winter weather; no shadow means an early spring.
Groundhog Day has its roots in the ancient Christian tradition of Candlemas Day, when clergy would bless and distribute candles needed for winter. The candles represented how long and cold the winter would be. Germans expanded on this concept by selecting an animal—the hedgehog—as a means of predicting weather. Once they came to America, German settlers in Pennsylvania continued the tradition, although they switched from hedgehogs to groundhogs, which were plentiful in the Keystone State.
Punxsutawney Phil, supposedly named in honor of Prince Phillip, was also called “Br’er Groundhog” and “His Hogship” in early newspaper accounts. Clymer Freas, editor of the local paper and member of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, “used his editorial clout to proclaim that Phil, the Punxsutawney Groundhog, was the one and only official weather prognosticating groundhog.”
From The Pittsburg Press, Feb. 2, 1888:
THE GROUNDHOG ON TOP: A CLOUDY SKY GREETS HIM TODAY
Away back in the times when the neighborhood about and upon which Pittsburgers [sic] still perambulate was a medieval forest, with only a log to be seen in miles of travel, the hardy backwoodsmen used to wager their most valued possessions upon the veracity of the legend that if the groundhog saw its shadow on Feb. 2, he would retire into his hole and and Boreas would blow his blast for six weeks longer. (…)
Some overpolite Yankee, shocked by the harsh sound of the word hog, undertook to establish the word “woodchuck,” but it was no go. The groundhog of our fathers was good enough for us, and the iconoclastic Yankee has transmitted his word only to college professors and New York dudines.
As other cities began to host Groundhog Day festivities, Punxsutawney Phil faced national competition and prompted debate about the legitimacy of these events in the age of science and weather-casting.
From The Pittsburg Press, Feb. 2, 1913:
Will he see his shadow today?
He will.
Who says so?
Forecaster Pennywitt.
This means six more weeks of cold weather.
Some folks say, “De sun do move;” others say it doesn’t.
There are many doubting Thomases of the world.
Some are even such brazen heretics as to scoff at a belief in Groundhog day. However, they’d better not air such views in Punxsatawney or its purlieus today.
For today’s the day, Feb. 2, Groundhog day, when this noble, retiring, unassuming animal comes into his own as the boss weather forecaster of the “hull kentry.” Weather maps, wind gauges, barometers and thermometers are all right as far as they go; they’re good enough for a mere weather office, and perhaps help to indicate what’s to be what for the next 12 hours or so; but when it comes to foretelling the weather for a full six weeks ahead, they’re all put in the shade by old reliable Groundhog.
Other facts: In 1928, Groundhog Day was broadcast from KDKA radio in Pittsburgh from Punxsatawney. And during most of World War II, no Groundhog Day events were held because, as one Punxsatawney Club member remembered in 1963, “the Government asked us not to reveal the forecast because it would aid the enemy.”
![On This Day in Pittsburgh History: January 28, 1797
Red Pole, great Shawnee Indian chief, died at Pittsburgh and was buried in Trinity churchyard. [Historic Pittsburgh]
In 2008, Pittsburgh City Paper editor Chris Potter inquired about the gravesite.“There’s good reason to believe that Red Pole is still buried beside the church. For one thing, he was an ally of the settlers, buried with full military honors.” He was too well-known to have had his gravesite moved without the public and local press finding out. Another reason, an archivist for the Episcopalian Diocese of Pittsburgh says, is that he is not buried in a place “where his grave was in the way of anything.”
The picture above and caption below reference Red Pole, who fell ill traveling to Philadelphia to sign a peace treaty with President George Washington, in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sept. 9, 1963:
CHIEF RED POLE was buried at Trinity after he died while on a business trip to Pittsburgh.
The U.S. Secretary of War ordered a tombstone erected in the Chief’s memory, a tribute to his “pacification of certain of the Indian tribes.” The headstone says Red Pole is “lamented by the United States.”
[William] Mitchell, who has been associated with the church since 1913, told how the late motion picture director, Cecil B. Demille, once brought a so-called Indian princess to the grave site as a promotion stunt for his movie, “The Unconquered,” starring Gary Cooper.
“They took pictures next to the Chief’s grave,” Mitchell said.
When Red Pole became sick in 1797, Dr. Nathaniel Bedford, the city’s first physician, treated him. Bedford’s grave is a few feet from that of Red Pole.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyf7ekC2w31qakblyo1_500.png)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: January 28, 1797
Red Pole, great Shawnee Indian chief, died at Pittsburgh and was buried in Trinity churchyard. [Historic Pittsburgh]
In 2008, Pittsburgh City Paper editor Chris Potter inquired about the gravesite.“There’s good reason to believe that Red Pole is still buried beside the church. For one thing, he was an ally of the settlers, buried with full military honors.” He was too well-known to have had his gravesite moved without the public and local press finding out. Another reason, an archivist for the Episcopalian Diocese of Pittsburgh says, is that he is not buried in a place “where his grave was in the way of anything.”
The picture above and caption below reference Red Pole, who fell ill traveling to Philadelphia to sign a peace treaty with President George Washington, in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sept. 9, 1963:
CHIEF RED POLE was buried at Trinity after he died while on a business trip to Pittsburgh.
The U.S. Secretary of War ordered a tombstone erected in the Chief’s memory, a tribute to his “pacification of certain of the Indian tribes.” The headstone says Red Pole is “lamented by the United States.”
[William] Mitchell, who has been associated with the church since 1913, told how the late motion picture director, Cecil B. Demille, once brought a so-called Indian princess to the grave site as a promotion stunt for his movie, “The Unconquered,” starring Gary Cooper.
“They took pictures next to the Chief’s grave,” Mitchell said.
When Red Pole became sick in 1797, Dr. Nathaniel Bedford, the city’s first physician, treated him. Bedford’s grave is a few feet from that of Red Pole.
![On This Day in Pittsburgh History: January 25, 1890
Journalist and Pittsburgh native Nellie Bly completed her trip around the globe in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes. [Historic Pittsburgh; Wikipedia]](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly1wnaOY4W1qakblyo1_500.png)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: January 25, 1890
Journalist and Pittsburgh native Nellie Bly completed her trip around the globe in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes. [Historic Pittsburgh; Wikipedia]
![On This Day in Pittsburgh History: January 20, 1938
Fallingwater, Edgar Kaufmann’s country home designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, was viewed by interested visitors. Wright and the Fallingwater residence were featured in the January 1938 issue of Time magazine. [Historic Pittsburgh]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly13tmts9t1qakblyo1_r4_500.png)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: January 20, 1938
Fallingwater, Edgar Kaufmann’s country home designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, was viewed by interested visitors. Wright and the Fallingwater residence were featured in the January 1938 issue of Time magazine. [Historic Pittsburgh]
![WQED test pattern (via)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: January 14, 1953
Mayor Lawrence announced that articles of incorporation were ready to be filed for formation of Pittsburgh’s “Metropolitan Educational Television Station, Inc.,” WQED. [Historic Pittsburgh]](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxclneL2XN1qakblyo1_500.jpg)
WQED test pattern (via)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: January 14, 1953
Mayor Lawrence announced that articles of incorporation were ready to be filed for formation of Pittsburgh’s “Metropolitan Educational Television Station, Inc.,” WQED. [Historic Pittsburgh]
![Striking workers and Pinkerton strike-breakers on the Monongahela River. National Police Gazette. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (via)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: July 6, 1892
Three hundred Pinkerton men were engaged by millworkers in a pitched battle at the Homestead works after arriving via the Monongahela River on two barges; 16 men were killed and many more wounded. [Historic Pittsburgh]
Related: “Strike at Homestead Hill,” from the PBS series American Experience:
When 300 Pinkerton Detectives came ashore at Andrew Carnegie’s Homestead mill on July 6, 1892, they had no idea of the extreme violence with which locked-out steelworkers would greet them. A hail of stones, then bullets, ripped the air. Steelworker William Foy and the captain of the Pinkertons fell wounded.What had begun as a simple disagreement over wages between the nations largest steelmaker and its largest craft union, the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, had taken a decidedly savage turn. Before the struggle ended, Amalgamated would be humbled, Carnegie’s control of his labor force complete. (more)](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l557woYB4L1qakblyo1_500.png)
Striking workers and Pinkerton strike-breakers on the Monongahela River. National Police Gazette. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (via)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: July 6, 1892
Three hundred Pinkerton men were engaged by millworkers in a pitched battle at the Homestead works after arriving via the Monongahela River on two barges; 16 men were killed and many more wounded. [Historic Pittsburgh]
Related: “Strike at Homestead Hill,” from the PBS series American Experience:
When 300 Pinkerton Detectives came ashore at Andrew Carnegie’s Homestead mill on July 6, 1892, they had no idea of the extreme violence with which locked-out steelworkers would greet them. A hail of stones, then bullets, ripped the air. Steelworker William Foy and the captain of the Pinkertons fell wounded.
What had begun as a simple disagreement over wages between the nations largest steelmaker and its largest craft union, the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, had taken a decidedly savage turn. Before the struggle ended, Amalgamated would be humbled, Carnegie’s control of his labor force complete. (more)
![Demolition of the Wabash Terminal, Pittsburgh (via)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: July 5, 1953
It was announced that the Wabash Building, a city landmark, was to be demolished to make way for further development in the Gateway Center. [Historic Pittsburgh]](http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l55728Zjhw1qakblyo1_500.jpg)
Demolition of the Wabash Terminal, Pittsburgh (via)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: July 5, 1953
It was announced that the Wabash Building, a city landmark, was to be demolished to make way for further development in the Gateway Center. [Historic Pittsburgh]
![Stephen Collins Foster (via)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: July 4, 1826
Composer Stephen Collins Foster (“Oh! Susanna”, “Camptown Races”) was born at 3600 Penn Ave. in Pittsburgh. He is often remembered as the “father of American music.” [Historic Pittsburgh; Wikipedia]
Related: Timeline of Foster’s life from PBS series American Experience](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4xqah8X2O1qakblyo1_500.jpg)
Stephen Collins Foster (via)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: July 4, 1826
Composer Stephen Collins Foster (“Oh! Susanna”, “Camptown Races”) was born at 3600 Penn Ave. in Pittsburgh. He is often remembered as the “father of American music.” [Historic Pittsburgh; Wikipedia]
Related: Timeline of Foster’s life from PBS series American Experience
![Westinghouse workers at a rally for full production, Pittsburgh, 1944. UE News Photograph Collection, Archives Service Center [Explore PA History]](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4xpn4cB9B1qakblyo1_500.jpg)
Westinghouse workers at a rally for full production, Pittsburgh, 1944. UE News Photograph Collection, Archives Service Center [Explore PA History]
![On This Day in Pittsburgh History: July 3, 1928
Fire destroyed the Cameo Theater building on Fifth Avenue. [Historic Pittsburgh; The Pittsburgh Press]](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4xoywMLmb1qakblyo1_500.png)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: July 3, 1928
Fire destroyed the Cameo Theater building on Fifth Avenue. [Historic Pittsburgh; The Pittsburgh Press]
![Ahmad Jamal (via)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: July 2, 1930
Acclaimed jazz pianist and composer Ahmad Jamal is born in Pittsburgh. [Wikipedia]](http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4w6ryzTgt1qakblyo1_500.jpg)
Ahmad Jamal (via)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: July 2, 1930
Acclaimed jazz pianist and composer Ahmad Jamal is born in Pittsburgh. [Wikipedia]
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: February 19, 1968
“Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” the longest-running program on public television, premieres in America. [Family Communications, Inc.; The Neighborhood Archive]
Monongahela House — Pittsburgh students inspecting room occupied by President-elect Abraham Lincoln [Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh]
The Heinz History Center’s exhibition Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War and Lincoln Slept Here featured Lincoln’s bed and bedroom set from the Monongahela House, the downtown Pittsburgh hotel that hosted the president-elect en route to his inauguration on Feb. 14, 1861.
Exit of His Hogship and His Wife, The Pittsburg Press, Feb. 2, 1888
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: February 2, 1887
Groundhog Day, featuring a rodent meteorologist, is celebrated for the first time at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. [History.com]
According to tradition, if a groundhog comes out of its hole on this day and sees its shadow, there will be six more weeks of winter weather; no shadow means an early spring.
Groundhog Day has its roots in the ancient Christian tradition of Candlemas Day, when clergy would bless and distribute candles needed for winter. The candles represented how long and cold the winter would be. Germans expanded on this concept by selecting an animal—the hedgehog—as a means of predicting weather. Once they came to America, German settlers in Pennsylvania continued the tradition, although they switched from hedgehogs to groundhogs, which were plentiful in the Keystone State.
Punxsutawney Phil, supposedly named in honor of Prince Phillip, was also called “Br’er Groundhog” and “His Hogship” in early newspaper accounts. Clymer Freas, editor of the local paper and member of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, “used his editorial clout to proclaim that Phil, the Punxsutawney Groundhog, was the one and only official weather prognosticating groundhog.”
From The Pittsburg Press, Feb. 2, 1888:
THE GROUNDHOG ON TOP: A CLOUDY SKY GREETS HIM TODAY
Away back in the times when the neighborhood about and upon which Pittsburgers [sic] still perambulate was a medieval forest, with only a log to be seen in miles of travel, the hardy backwoodsmen used to wager their most valued possessions upon the veracity of the legend that if the groundhog saw its shadow on Feb. 2, he would retire into his hole and and Boreas would blow his blast for six weeks longer. (…)
Some overpolite Yankee, shocked by the harsh sound of the word hog, undertook to establish the word “woodchuck,” but it was no go. The groundhog of our fathers was good enough for us, and the iconoclastic Yankee has transmitted his word only to college professors and New York dudines.
As other cities began to host Groundhog Day festivities, Punxsutawney Phil faced national competition and prompted debate about the legitimacy of these events in the age of science and weather-casting.
From The Pittsburg Press, Feb. 2, 1913:
Will he see his shadow today?
He will.
Who says so?
Forecaster Pennywitt.
This means six more weeks of cold weather.
Some folks say, “De sun do move;” others say it doesn’t.
There are many doubting Thomases of the world.
Some are even such brazen heretics as to scoff at a belief in Groundhog day. However, they’d better not air such views in Punxsatawney or its purlieus today.
For today’s the day, Feb. 2, Groundhog day, when this noble, retiring, unassuming animal comes into his own as the boss weather forecaster of the “hull kentry.” Weather maps, wind gauges, barometers and thermometers are all right as far as they go; they’re good enough for a mere weather office, and perhaps help to indicate what’s to be what for the next 12 hours or so; but when it comes to foretelling the weather for a full six weeks ahead, they’re all put in the shade by old reliable Groundhog.
Other facts: In 1928, Groundhog Day was broadcast from KDKA radio in Pittsburgh from Punxsatawney. And during most of World War II, no Groundhog Day events were held because, as one Punxsatawney Club member remembered in 1963, “the Government asked us not to reveal the forecast because it would aid the enemy.”
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: January 28, 1797
Red Pole, great Shawnee Indian chief, died at Pittsburgh and was buried in Trinity churchyard. [Historic Pittsburgh]
In 2008, Pittsburgh City Paper editor Chris Potter inquired about the gravesite.“There’s good reason to believe that Red Pole is still buried beside the church. For one thing, he was an ally of the settlers, buried with full military honors.” He was too well-known to have had his gravesite moved without the public and local press finding out. Another reason, an archivist for the Episcopalian Diocese of Pittsburgh says, is that he is not buried in a place “where his grave was in the way of anything.”
The picture above and caption below reference Red Pole, who fell ill traveling to Philadelphia to sign a peace treaty with President George Washington, in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sept. 9, 1963:
CHIEF RED POLE was buried at Trinity after he died while on a business trip to Pittsburgh.
The U.S. Secretary of War ordered a tombstone erected in the Chief’s memory, a tribute to his “pacification of certain of the Indian tribes.” The headstone says Red Pole is “lamented by the United States.”
[William] Mitchell, who has been associated with the church since 1913, told how the late motion picture director, Cecil B. Demille, once brought a so-called Indian princess to the grave site as a promotion stunt for his movie, “The Unconquered,” starring Gary Cooper.
“They took pictures next to the Chief’s grave,” Mitchell said.
When Red Pole became sick in 1797, Dr. Nathaniel Bedford, the city’s first physician, treated him. Bedford’s grave is a few feet from that of Red Pole.
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: January 25, 1890
Journalist and Pittsburgh native Nellie Bly completed her trip around the globe in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes. [Historic Pittsburgh; Wikipedia]
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: January 20, 1938
Fallingwater, Edgar Kaufmann’s country home designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, was viewed by interested visitors. Wright and the Fallingwater residence were featured in the January 1938 issue of Time magazine. [Historic Pittsburgh]
WQED test pattern (via)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: January 14, 1953
Mayor Lawrence announced that articles of incorporation were ready to be filed for formation of Pittsburgh’s “Metropolitan Educational Television Station, Inc.,” WQED. [Historic Pittsburgh]
Striking workers and Pinkerton strike-breakers on the Monongahela River. National Police Gazette. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (via)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: July 6, 1892
Three hundred Pinkerton men were engaged by millworkers in a pitched battle at the Homestead works after arriving via the Monongahela River on two barges; 16 men were killed and many more wounded. [Historic Pittsburgh]
Related: “Strike at Homestead Hill,” from the PBS series American Experience:
When 300 Pinkerton Detectives came ashore at Andrew Carnegie’s Homestead mill on July 6, 1892, they had no idea of the extreme violence with which locked-out steelworkers would greet them. A hail of stones, then bullets, ripped the air. Steelworker William Foy and the captain of the Pinkertons fell wounded.
What had begun as a simple disagreement over wages between the nations largest steelmaker and its largest craft union, the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, had taken a decidedly savage turn. Before the struggle ended, Amalgamated would be humbled, Carnegie’s control of his labor force complete. (more)
Demolition of the Wabash Terminal, Pittsburgh (via)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: July 5, 1953
It was announced that the Wabash Building, a city landmark, was to be demolished to make way for further development in the Gateway Center. [Historic Pittsburgh]
![Pittsburgh parade in the North Side, before 1907 [Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh]](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4xpskVtmi1qakblyo1_500.gif)
Stephen Collins Foster (via)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: July 4, 1826
Composer Stephen Collins Foster (“Oh! Susanna”, “Camptown Races”) was born at 3600 Penn Ave. in Pittsburgh. He is often remembered as the “father of American music.” [Historic Pittsburgh; Wikipedia]
Related: Timeline of Foster’s life from PBS series American Experience
Westinghouse workers at a rally for full production, Pittsburgh, 1944. UE News Photograph Collection, Archives Service Center [Explore PA History]
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: July 3, 1928
Fire destroyed the Cameo Theater building on Fifth Avenue. [Historic Pittsburgh; The Pittsburgh Press]
Ahmad Jamal (via)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: July 2, 1930
Acclaimed jazz pianist and composer Ahmad Jamal is born in Pittsburgh. [Wikipedia]
![Phipps Conservatory, Pittsburgh, 1907 [University of Pittsburgh Digital Archives]](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4w7dnkdr91qakblyo1_500.jpg)
