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Tandy Corporation was an American family-owned leather -goods company based in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. Tandy Leather was founded in 1919 as a leather supply store. By the end of the 1950s, under the tutelage of then-CEO Charles Tandy, the company expanded into the hobby market, making leather moccasins and coin purses, making huge ...
The Senator John Heinz History Center, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, [ 1] is the largest history museum in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States. Named after U.S. Senator H. John Heinz III (1938–1991) from Pennsylvania, it is located in the Strip District of Pittsburgh . The Heinz History Center is a 275,000-square ...
The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh was founded in 1983 in the old Allegheny Post Office, gifted to the museum by the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, and is situated on Pittsburgh's North Side, formerly Allegheny City. The neighboring Buhl Planetarium building was vacated by 1991 when it was superseded by the nearby Kamin Science ...
A Jewish summer camp is a summer camp dedicated to Jewish communities. In the United States these camps grew in popularity in the years after World War II and the Holocaust as an effort by American Jewish leaders to preserve and produce authentic Jewish culture. [ 1] Outside the United States, similar camps are generally organized by various ...
April 21. Beaver County Maple Syrup Festival continues, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Bradys Run Park.. Pittsburgh Summer Camp Expo, 1 to 4 p.m., UPMC Events Center, Moon Township.A free opportunity ...
By 1961, Tandy Leather was operating 125 stores in 105 cities of the United States and Canada and the company name was changed to Tandy Corporation. [6] In 1963, Tandy Corporation acquired management control of the Radio Shack Corporation and, after two years, Charles Tandy had turned the company's $4 million loss into a profit. During that ...
S. Camp Stone. Categories: Jewish summer camps in the United States. Jews and Judaism in Pennsylvania.
In Tandy's last years his major project was the revitalization of downtown Fort Worth, his hometown, e.g., the construction of the eight-block Tandy Center. [4] Tandy died of a heart attack in his sleep on 4 November 1978, and was buried at Greenwood Memorial Park in Fort Worth, Texas. [1] [7]