Dir of Publications Heinz History Ctr 📚 Best Local Writer, Pgh City Paper 3x 🎉 Kennywood, Diners, Lincoln Hwy, Isaly's/Klondike books 📕 Quarry novel underway
Eighty years ago, members of the Japanese American 522nd Field Artillery Battalion rescued Jewish slave laborers from a death march near Dachau. @nakashimae of the @WashPost joined their memorial celebration to hear the stories of the survivors.
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Our new book, “Bettis: Where Pittsburgh Aviation Took Off,” takes a fascinating look at the Golden Age of aviation. From barnstorming to commercial and passenger flight, West Mifflin’s Bettis Airport was once a hub of thrilling adventures. @BrianButko
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A fav find this Christmas for my aspiring aviation architect. Inspired by another gift, the new book about Bettis airfield from @BrianButko & Sue @HxDilettante. Hoping to get to 1 of their lectures soon, would love to see an exhibit come to @HistoryCenter including @PITairport.
Sat, Dec. 14, 2024 from 1:00 - 3:00
Authors @BrianButko & Sue @HxDilettante Morris will share tales from yinzer aviation in the 1920s (wish @HistoryCenter would stream it online) Register: https://t.co/NItEKyXddj
Join authors @BrianButko & @HxDilettante to celebrate the launch of “Bettis: Where Pittsburgh Aviation Took Off” on Dec. 14, at the History Center. The duo will share stories about the 1920s airport & reveal how the book was researched & created.
https://t.co/tifUyO4DRc
Join authors @BrianButko & @HxDilettante to celebrate the launch of “Bettis: Where Pittsburgh Aviation Took Off” on Dec. 14. Make sure your tray tables are in the upright position as they share stories about the 1920s airport.
https://t.co/tifUyO5bGK
Now boarding … a thrilling new book on Pittsburgh’s aviation history!
Join authors @BrianButko & @HxDilettante to celebrate the launch of “Bettis: Where Pittsburgh Aviation Took Off” on Saturday, Dec. 14, at the History Center.
https://t.co/tifUyO4DRc
@bobf_vstpgh @jensplain That is just before I started my Kennywood research and books — but at this very moment I’m working on big book #3 that will be filled with vintage blueprints and artist renderings.
2/ @HxDilettante & @BrianButko are publishing "Bettis: Where Pgh Aviation Took Off" this fall: the fascinating stories of daredevils who changed the industry from barnstorming to passenger service in less than a decade.”
1/ An intriguing & too little explored corner of Pittsburgh history!
Via @BrianButko “Aviation in the 1920s offered an escape from traditional roles for women like Ellen Mahoney & Freda Zuend, pictured in a catalog for the Pgh School of Aviation, at Bettis Airport.”
Is this the end for the old Charlie’s/Scotty’s Diner, a rare 1940 factory-built diner in #Pittsburgh? They were built to be mobile — any hope it would be bought and moved?
Learn more about the history of Kennywood Park and its roller coasters in the History Center publication “Behind the Screams” by @BrianButko.
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This #InternationalWomensDay, we’re sharing a sneak peek at some of the incredible textiles featured in our new exhibition, A Woman’s Place: How Women Shaped Pittsburgh, which opens to the public on Saturday, March 23. #IWD2024#ComingSoon
"We arrived in New York at Midnight ... and the Lincoln Zephyr knows all about traffic." A cool old ad for one of my favorite cars, the 1937 Lincoln Zephyr coupe.