Now Then, Pittsburgh

10min Reads

The following posts offer a lot of fun and information. Each take less than 10 minutes to read.

If you decide to binge on all of them at once, well . . enjoy.

Mail was free to send, but pricey to get

OMG! Txtng in the 1800s

When pot lined the banks of Pittsburgh’s rivers

Just another weekend in 1884.

The year there was no summer, Pittsburgh was born

Public love-making among our ancestors

Could you get hired in 1816? Would you even know what the jobs were?

Before the City of Bridges had any

How to dress like it’s 1816

You think you know Penguins hockey? Think again.

Pontiac and Elvis went to the same barber

When breasts got “divorced”