The Influence of Irish Immigrants on Pittsburgh’s Culture, Labor, and Community
📰 Original title: How the Emerald Isle shaped the Steel City -- Pittsburgh's rich Irish history
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅
View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/the-influence-of-irish-immigrants-on-pittsburghs-culture-labor-and-community/?redirpost=191dd973-099e-4f4b-abb0-5ef5ecf38d8d
📍Pittsburgh’s history… through its cemeteries?
On #ACast750, @janepitt joined @sorgatron and @profpod to discuss how the PastFinders App could bring places like Allegheny Cemetery to life with narrated grave tours and curated walking routes.
🎬 https://www.patreon.com/posts/awesomecast-750-139080554
📲 https://www.pastfinders.app
#CemeteryTours #DigitalHeritage #PittsburghHistory #TechPodcast
📱 Think Pokémon Go… but for Pittsburgh history.
@janepitt joined @sorgatron and @profpod on #ACast750 to show how the PastFinders App turns your neighborhood into an interactive history walk.
🎬 Clip: https://www.patreon.com/posts/awesome-139120204
🔗 Try the app: https://www.pastfinders.app
#PittsburghHistory #AugmentedReality #DigitalHeritage #TechPodcast #PastFindersApp
Think you’ve heard every story about Pittsburgh’s past? Meet Presston—a ghost town steeped in mystery and whispers from the past. Explore it here 👉 #PresstonGhostTown #PittsburghHistory #GhostTowns #EerieLegends #AbandonedPlaces #PAAdventures
Presston, Pennsylvania, once a thriving factory town, now stands as a haunting ghost town filled with tales of its vibrant past and a significant labor strike. Visitors can experience eerie legends, like the lingering factory bell and shadowy figures, while reflecting on resilience and history in a location rich with stories waiting to be explored.
Battle of Homestead, a violent confrontation laying bare the opposing positions of America's late 19th century laboring & capitalist ruling classes, began 131 years ago today.
For all the lecturing & writing & somber reflections, little space has ever been created to talk about Homestead's women. And only one was ever named in contemporary accounts: Margaret Finch.
I resolved to tell her story:
http://historicaldilettante.blogspot.com/2019/04/bearing-witness-to-beldam-mother-finch.html
#Pittsburgh #pittsburghhistory #battleofhomestead #laborhistory
Idling Industry a Century Ago: #Pittsburgh steel & related industries historically shut down to allow workers to enjoy only 2 holidays: Christmas & July 4th.
It had been ever thus and 1923 was no exception.
Article: Pgh Post-Gazette 4 July 1923
Respectfully submitted to encourage usage of 1920s slang: vice & nuisance crackdown aimed at surveillance of #Pittsburgh Northside and East End curb lizards 100 years ago.
Curb lizards.
CURB LIZARDS!!
#pittsburghhistory #curblizards
Press excerpt 2-6-1923
#OTD 100 yrs ago #Pittsburgh Daily Post reported that an audacious armed gunman paused in medias hold-up to wait on a customer at a downtown cigar store.
It was the second time in 6 months that this store had been robbed, although customer service was not a feature of the 1st incident.
Both Schulte & United cigar companies were located at this central spot on Sixth & Liberty, so our man easily blended into workday crowd once done.
Image: Pgh City Photographer Coll, 1919
What do you do when confronted with the 1923 version of a clickbait headline?
Well, you click it, of course.
And keep clicking and clicking and clicking, because this Pittsburgh story had nothing to do with the headline, but was every bit as compelling in its own way.
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