Pittsburgh

Home to hockey's Penguins from 1967 to 2010, the Civic Arena was nicknamed "The Igloo." It was also home to the ABA's Pipers and Condors in the late '60s and early '70s, as well as the indoor soccer Spirit in the '80s and the...

The Original Hot Dog Shop, better known as simply "The O," opened in 1960. Literally sitting in the shadow of the University of Pittsburgh, it was a popular destination not only for students, but anyone visiting the Oakland neighborhood to see a concert, visit...

The DuMont Television Network began broadcasting on June 28, 1942, the nation's third TV network behind NBC and CBS. Regular network service began on August 15, 1946. It was started by DuMont Laboratories, a maker of TVs. Financial strains and fierce competition from NBC,...

The Pittsburgh Pisces were the fictional basketball team featured in the 1979 film The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh.?????Filmed on location in the Steel City, the movie starred real-life basketball legends Julius "Dr. J." Erving (then of the Philadelphia 76ers), Meadowlark Lemon (of the Harlem...

The Pittsburgh Spirit were one the 6 original Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) teams in 1978. They took the 1980/1981 season off but returned for 5 more seasons, folding in 1986.

Bill "Chilly Billy" Cardille was Pittsburgh's horror TV host from 1964 to 1983 on WIIC, Channel 11 (now WPXI). Like many such personalities across the country, Cardille had other jobs at the TV station and took the movie host job as a side gig....

The Pittsburgh Stingers played in the Continental Indoor Soccer League (CISL) for two seasons, 1994 and 1995.

The Pittsburgh Shamrocks played in the old International Hockey League for the 1935/36 season. After losing $40,000 in their lone season, the team folded. In the fall of 1936, the Detroit Olympics moved to Pittsburgh to become the Hornets.

Lazzie Bear was a Christmas plushie sold at Lazarus department stores staring with the 1986 holiday season. He retired in the early 2000s, when the chain, after several mergers and acquisitions, took the Macy's name.

On Saturday, October 27, 2018 a gunman opened fire in a Pittsburgh Synagogue. Eleven people lost their lives and several police officers were injured. A Pittsburgh designer created this amazing image in the hope that people would share it as a "WIN for love...

Are you "reddy" for an electrifying Christmas?

Remember kids, Electricity is your friend, but he can kill you. Even at Christmas!

The Pittsburgh Triangles were a charter franchise in World Team Tennis formed in 1973. The Triangles won the 1975 WTT championship but folded after the 1976 season. Their home court as the Civic Arena. In 1977, the Cleveland Nets split their home games between...

Reddy is ready for Christmas! Are you....?

Gimbel Brothers, better known as Gimbels, was an American department store chain from 1887 until 1987. Though it stared in Indiana it is widely known for creating the Gimbels Thanksgiving Day Parade in Philadelphia, the oldest such parade in the country.

The Pittsburgh Crawfords, also known as the Craws, were a professional Negro league baseball team that played from 1931-1940. They were named after the Crawford Bath House, a recreation center in the Crawford neighborhood of Pittsburgh's Hill District. After playing in several different leagues,...

Club Laga was a popular venue for punk hardcore, punk, and hip-hop acts from 1996 until 2004. One floor below was the Upstage Lounge a popular dance club in the '80s and 90s.

Burger Chef was a fast-food hamburger chain that started in Indianapolis in 1958. At its peak in the mid 1970s, it was second only to McDonald's in the number of nationwide locations. The chain even made inroads into Canada. In 1982, the chain was...

The??Pittsburgh Keystones??was the name of two historic professional??Negro league baseball??teams that operated in 1887 and again in 1921 and 1922. The first team was a member of the first black baseball league in 1887, the??League of Colored Baseball Clubs. In 1921 and 1922, the...

Three Rivers Stadium opened in 1970 as the new home of the city's pro football and pro baseball teams. Similar to other so-called cookie-cutter stadiums of the era (The Vet in Philadelphia, Riverfront in Cincinnati, etc.), Three Rivers closed in 2000. Mired in mediocrity,...

Shortly after cable TV began to expand across the U.S., Warner Communications (later Warner-AMEX), one of the biggest cable providers, introduced QUBE in Columbus, Ohio in 1977.??QUBE??was an experimental, two-way, multi-programmed??system that played a significant role in the development of American??interactive television. It was...

Remember kids, Electricity is your friend, but he can kill you. Check out the sticker!

What could be more convenient? Drive up to the little booth, drop off your film, come back the next day and see your pictures. Mail them to friends and family! Established in the early 1960s in Southern California, Fotomat grew to over 4,000 locations...

Tape World was a mall-based chain of music stores owned by Trans World Entertainment, operators of Record Town, Coconuts, and FYE among others. While the name suggested emphasis on the one format, it did offer CDs, briefly, before being retired by Trans World.

Zayre and was a chain of discount department stores that operated throughout the U.S. from the 1960s through the 1980s. After selling the Zayre locations to competitor Ames, the company focused on its TJ Maxx storeds as well as sibling retailers Marshalls, Home Goods,...

In the early 1950s, between 20,000-60,000 people a year were becoming afflicted with polio. Jonas Salk and his team at the University of Pittsburgh developed a polio vaccine in 1952. By 1955 a campaign to vaccinate children in the U.S. was launched. ALbert Sabin...

Dedicated in 1916, The Syria Mosque was originally a gathering place for the Shriners. It is best known to Pittsburghers as a concert venue having hosted acts such as Charlie Parker, Sam Cooke, Buddy Holly, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, The Who, R.E.M., and many,...

Chico's Bail Bonds lets freedom ring! They also sponsor a winning little league team.

The Pittsburgh Crawfords, also known as the Craws, were a professional Negro league baseball team that played from 1931-1940. They were named after the Crawford Bath House, a recreation center in the Crawford neighborhood of Pittsburgh's Hill District. After playing in several different leagues,...

Woodsy Owl first appeared in 1971 and asked Americans to take better care of the environment by disposing of trash properly. An??updated version??of Woodsy was developed in the 1990s.