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Some PA firsts: Betsy Ross: First Flag Pittsburgh: Countries first gas station Pittsburgh: First Baseball stadium Pittsburgh: First commercial radio station Pittsburgh: Salk vaccine to cure polio Titusville: First oil well Punxsutawney "Phil": A Groundhog weather forecaster. The Hershey chocolate bar: Americas favorite. Philadelphia has some firsts, but the Western part of the State tries to ignore them.
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Looked forward to Chilly Billy, all the girls liked to cuddle during the scary movies.
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I believe a movie was filmed in Cook Forest back in the 40s or 50s.
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Some PA firsts: Betsy Ross: First Flag Pittsburgh: Countries first gas station Pittsburgh: First Baseball stadium Pittsburgh: First commercial radio station Pittsburgh: Salk vaccine to cure polio Titusville: First oil well Punxsutawney "Phil": A Groundhog weather forecaster. The Hershey chocolate bar: Americas favorite. Philadelphia has some firsts, but the Western part of the State tries to ignore them. Steelers: first team to win SIX Super Bowls.
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Some PA firsts:
Pittsburgh: First commercial radio station
There are only a handful of "K" radio stations east of the Mississippi and two of them are in the 'Burgh. They are...?
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One is KDKA, obviously. Not sure of the others callsign, but I believe it's affiliated with KDKA as well.
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Philadelphia has some firsts, but the Western part of the State tries to ignore them. Americas first hospital. When you are one of the original thirteen colonies is not difficult to be the first for something.
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On September 1, 1971 the Pittsburgh Pirates played the Philadelphia Phillies at Three Rivers Stadium, the Pirates starting lineup was: Rene Stennett 2B Gene Clines CF Roberto Clemente RF Willie Stargell LF Manny Sanguillen C Dave Cash 3B Al Oliver 1B Jackie Hernandez SS Dock Ellis P
This was the first time in major league baseball that all the starting players were black.
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What famous sandwich was first made in Pennsylvania?
What famous card game originated in Pittsburgh?
Iron City was the first canned beverage to use what?
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"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." Robert E. Howard
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Steelers: first team to win SIX Super Bowls.
Best fact of them all
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Iron City was the first canned beverage to use what? River water, straight out of the Allegheny? (I think I know the true answer though... ). Edit: I was right, about the tab, but was distracted as I wrote, and got too slow... A good childhood friend's dad worked at the Iron City brewery when I was growing up. The buddy now owns a beer distributor.
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I thought "Night Of The Living Dead" was filmed in Zelinople? Nope.....Evans city! Which one was filmed in the Monroeville Mall?
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The starting point for the Lewis and Clark expedition was Pittsburgh down the Ohio river. http://pittsburgh.about.com/cs/history/a/lewis_clark.htm
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Some relatives on my wifes side of the family worked in svereal of the breweries back in the 50's thru the 70's. Drinking beer at lunch and on breaks was the norm............how things have changed.
Just like Battue I have seen a lot of Pittsburgh......born and raised here!!!
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Local synonym for an Iron City:
A "Red Dot"
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Then there is that most elusive of fish.....the Allegheny Brown Trout! Very difficult to land, as they are very soft mouthed, and require a delicate touch. Jeff
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No doubt it holds some big ones.
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