January 2010
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Pirates unveil Mazeroski statue
The Pirates have just recently revealed the design and placement of the Bill Mazeroski statue. Check out the Post-Gazette coverage.
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BikePGH gets a new office
BikePGH has recently moved to a new office in Lawrenceville in a fantastic Art Deco styled building. Check out BikePGH’s blog post on their new office and some house warming gifts they could use.
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Plum teen wins record deal →
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Mazeroski statue to come to PNC Park →
The Pittsburgh Pirates will soon debut a fourth statue for PNC Park, a statue of Bill Mazeroski. The statue design will be revealed at PirateFest
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“Right now they’re back home in Magnitogorsk, but they’ll be coming with me to Vancouver, and then come to Pittsburgh after the Olympics. So then there will be borscht and a lot of goals.” - Evgeni Malkin, Pittsburgh Quote
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History of Duquesne Brewery clock faces
The AT&T clock looms large to this day over the South Side. Last year, it was the Equitable Gas clock; before that, it hawked among other things Iron City, WTAE-TV, and Stroh’s. However, the building the clock is on used to itself be a brewery. So, what’s the story? In 1933, Coca-Cola was making a national marketing push. The Atlanta, Georgia company was contracting with local...
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A Helping Hand for Haiti
Chocolatier Edward Marc will be hosting a benefit event tomorrow (Saturday January 16th) at the Edward Marc Chocolatier and The Milkshake Factory in the South Side. 100% of all proceeds at this event will be donated to the American Red Cross to aid victims of the January 10, 2010 Haitian earthquake.
Edward Marc has always been known for their generosity with donating 20% of its profits to...
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Facility offers secure indoor bicycle parking
Bike PGH is proud to announce that commuters downtown will now have a facility to park their bikes. Located on the back of the Century Building, highlighted in bright green sits the bike parking.
The hope is that this will encourage more downtown employees to commute by bike as well as increase awareness for local developers to integrate bike friendly facilities into their buildings. For more...
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Mapping The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Blog Writing Pittsburgh, posted about a great user generated map on Google that marks all the spots mentioned in the book The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Click on the map below be to check it out.
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Past Pittsburgh industries and their ads
Vintage advertising seems to have become pretty trendy on the internet recently. There are many reasons why people enjoy to reflect on old ads, from the art style, to the projects, to the history they might offer.
To help the search of these old ads there is now an interesting search engine called Vintage ad Browser made specifically for searching old advertisements. Check out the Pittsburgh...
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“They were in their prime and I was just a young guy of 22 learning the game. Being in the Canada Cup and playing with Gretzky gave me a lot of confidence going back and playing in Pittsburgh. It gave me an opportunity to start my career and really learn what it meant to be a champion and the best in the game.” - Mario Lemieux, Pittsburgh Quote
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Merry Christmas from the Orthodox →
A wonderful article from the Post-Gazette on today’s celebration of Christmas by Orthodox Christians. The photo above is of St. Nicholas church the Carpatho-Russian Orthodox church in Homestead. click above to check out the article.
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Sid vs Max vs the dryer
We have heard about Sidney Crosby practicing shooting as a youth with an old family dryer machine. Now thanks to Reebok we get to check Sid at work with his dryer as he challenges Max Talbot to a shoot off.