Status Updates From Forgotten Tales of Pittsburgh

Pg 125: One-Eyed Farm
In Buttler County in the summer of 1891, an electrician named D.J. Cable visited a farm and noticed that all the animals, and the lady of the house had only one eye. No explanation was given. Go Pittsburgh!
Pg 127: Nike Missile Bases
Built in 1952, you can still see one of the twelve bases in Robinson.

Pg 98: Hogg’s Pond
Late 1700’s the Golden Triangle of Pittsburgh. A large pond, known as Hogg’s Pond. New construction and the gradual leveling of Grant’s Hill, the pond became a place to dump dirt.

Pg 87: Tesla Asks Westinghouse To Finance His Death Ray
Pg 91: A Mob Attacks The Umpire. To be fair, the umpire hit a member of the mob first.
Pg 92: Barbers Arrested For Cutting Hair. Blue laws, no work on Sunday. Also, 24 women arrested for sewing on Sunday, Taylor shop.
Pg 93: Old Plank Roads

Pg 69: Black Helicopters Invade Pittsburgh. June 3, 1996

Pg 57: A Forerunner Of The Newspaper Horoscope, Much more interesting than the current Zodiac ones.
Pg 59:Charles Taze Russell (1852 - 1916) and the Pyramid Monument. The founder of the Jehovah’s Witnesses was born and died here in Pittsburgh
Pg 66: The Pittsburgh Mafia’s Greatest Hits. And a parrot named Polly was found in his nearby cage repeating the words “Poor Joe” over and over again page 67

Pg 13: Creepy Clown and Costumed Menaces, June 1981
Pg 28: The Satanic Panic Comes To Pittsburgh,late 1970 & early 1980
Pg 38: Trotter’s Curse, Early 1780’s. What is impressive is that he was able to recite Psalm 109.
Pg 45: Miraculous Weeping Icons
Pg 48: Balloons Struck By Lightning
Pg 53: Attacked By A Lion, 1907 That lion would not back down.

1776
This new state, called Westsylvania, would have its capital in Pittsburgh and include all of modern southwest Pennsylvania, most of what became West Virginia and the eastern edge of Kentucky. -page 12