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19/03/2015 7:10 pm
On a relatively new Facebook page, there is a history of unusual events in Pittsburgh. One that caught my attention was a film of the celebration of the opening of the nine foot waterway between Pittsburgh and Cairo. The date was 18 Oct 1929 – eleven days before the stock market crash signaling the beginning of the Great Depression. 18m36s of steamboats.
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1589729194604283
The str Betsy Ann, at the time the Capt Frederick Way Jr was its owner, is filmed passing by.
Lots of smoke and steam whistles (Did I mention that there is sound?) in the Smoky City.
Have a look. I am sure it will be time well spent.
24/03/2015 7:18 pm
nice!
Very cool, thank you for sharing.
24/03/2015 8:37 pm
That might be the coolest thing I have seen in a fur piece!
Thank you ever so much
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01/04/2015 2:42 am
The St Patrick’s Day Flood of 1936
There is INCREDIBLE newsreel footage of the Flood of 1936 in Pittsburgh on The Odd, Mysterious & Fascinating History of Pittsburgh.
My Aunt Flora Nash collected newspaper images of the flood from papers at various towns along the river. Those images have been uploaded to a page named Flood of 1936. The images were pasted in a scrapbook without identifying their origin. Towns along the Ohio, Mon , and Allegheny Rivers are exhibited: Ambridge, Appllo, Coraopolis, Dravosburg, Emsworth, Etna, Homestead, Kittanning, Montgomery Island, McKees Rocks, New Kensington, North Vandergrift, Oakmont, Tarentum, Turtle Creek, Verona, West Bridgewater, West Brownsville, Wheeling, and more.