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Winky's Hamburgers was a chain of hamburger fast food restaurants in and near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.It was founded by two brothers, Harold and Bernard Erenstein in 1962. [1] [2] Their slogans were "Fast Food Cheap" and "Winky's Makes You Happy To be Hungry."
Christopher Lyman Magee (1864) – powerful 19th-century Pittsburgh political boss; Wilson McCandless (Col 1826) – federal judge and candidate for Democratic nomination for President of the United States; Jonas R. McClintock - 8th mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Samuel J. R. McMillan (Col 1846) – Republican U.S. Senator from Minnesota
The Pittsburgh crime family, [4] also known as the LaRocca crime family [5] or the Pittsburgh Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] The LaRocca family is one of the original twenty-six Mafia families in the United States. [ 7 ]
Conflict Kitchen was a take-out restaurant in Pittsburgh that served only cuisine from countries with which the United States was in conflict. [3] The menu focused on one nation at a time, rotating every three to five months, and featured related educational programming, such as lunch hour with scholars, film screenings, and trivia nights.
The Pittsburgh version of Evening Magazine aired on KDKA-TV from August 1, 1977, until October 12, 1990. Hosts included Dave Durian , Donna Hanover , Liz Miles, Jon Burnett and Mary Robb Jackson. Contributors to the show included Bob Kmetz and Dennis Miller (in his first broadcast experience, prior to joining Saturday Night Live ).
Allegheny Cemetery is one of the largest and oldest burial grounds in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.It is a historic rural cemetery. [4]The non-sectarian, wooded hillside park is located at 4734 Butler Street in the Lawrenceville neighborhood, and bounded by the Bloomfield, Garfield, and Stanton Heights areas.
Primanti Bros. made the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ' s list of "1,000 Places to See Before You Die in the USA and Canada", [15] and their sandwich is a featured Pittsburgh landmark on Yinztagram. [16] The restaurant was mentioned on the April 21, 2008, episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in an interview with Senator Barack Obama. Stewart ...
On August 6, 2009, approximately 75 people, including friends, women's rights advocates, clergy members, and local officials, held a vigil at the Pittsburgh City-County Building in downtown Pittsburgh in honor of the shooting's victims. [16] In the aftermath, some feminist groups attributed misogyny and toxic masculinity as a contributing ...