Category: Monday Morning Nostalgia Fix

April 6, 2009 Off

A nice, warm glow

By Jason

Music was fading from the AM dial. Among stations playing Top 40, only “13Q” WKTQ (1320) was keeping the faith.…

March 30, 2009 Off

Apr

By Jason

. . . Zworykin was a Russian immigrant who had obtained his doctorate from Pitt three years earlier. His research…

March 16, 2009 Off

Saw it then

By Jason

. . . In its 1953 annual report, Alcoa lauded Murrow as “an internationally famous reporter” and called “See It…

March 9, 2009 Off

The late, late show

By Jason

. . . “Tonight,” NBC, Sept. 27, 1954: The co-creator and producer of the granddaddy of all late-night TV shows…

June 2, 2008 Off

‘We live here … we like it!’

By Jason

This is Pittsburgh is an 80-page, large-format, softcover book that was published by Pickwick-Morcraft Inc., a now-defunct printing company on…