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This whimsical store appeared in downtown Pittsburgh on November 18th. The sign on the door says the owners are on vacation, but that just covers the fact that this is an art installation by Toby Atticus Fraley.
The installation is part of the “Pop Up Pittsburgh” project designed to brighten vacant storefronts in downtown Pittsburgh. Along with a warmly lit inviting interior there are also a couple of animatronic robots giving some movement and interest to the installation. It will have a year long run at 210 6th St.
See lots more pictures and read about the fictional repair shop’s services at the “business” website. Link -Thanks, Toby!
Citizens of Pittsburgh, do not be alarmed! The Bat-Signal didn’t go up because the Joker is up to no good in your town, but rather to show love for the crew of the new movie The Dark Knight Rises, who have been filming in the Pitt and may be staying in the city through the winter. The only question I have is this: why does the Bat-Signal look like it’s being projected from the Green Lantern’s ring?
A man in PA was arrested for public drunkenness after he was found trying to resuscitate a long dead possum.
Possums are prone to play dead, especially when threatened. Their eyes glaze over, their teeth are bared, and they secrete a rank stench from their glands.
But the possum lying along the Colonel Drake Highway on Thursday was doing none of that, troopers said. It was long-dead certified roadkill.
And Donald Wolfe was intent on bringing it back to life, troopers said. Trooper Jamie Levier of the Punxsutawney barracks said witnesses saw Wolfe, 55, locking lips with the lifeless marsupial about 3 p.m. in a remote area about 80 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
Link (Photo not the possum in question)
Angelo Cammarata is finally retiring. The 95-year-old bartender has been serving customers at Cammarata’s in Pittsburgh for 77 years. That puts him in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-serving bartender ever. The family bar has been sold and will be under new management in a few weeks. The new owners asked Cammarata to stay on, but he is looking forward to taking it easy.
“Camm,” as people call him, started serving beer at his father’s North Side grocery the moment Prohibition ended at midnight on April 7, 1933. The memory is as clear to him as the strike of the library clock that signaled it was time to start opening bottles of Fort Pitt. His immigrant father built a bar on that site in 1935 and Angelo kept working there, taking a break to serve in the Navy in World War II.
Cammarata says the work kept him young. Link -via Fark
(image credit: Bob Batz Jr./Post-Gazette)
The Grant Building, one of the downtown skyscrapers in Pittsburgh has an aviation beacon that instead of flashing at regular intervals, was set up to flash in Morse code the letters that spell "Pittsburgh".
This year, Tom Stepleton, a recreational pilot familiar with Morse code noticed that the letters transmitted by the beacon spelled… "PITETSBKRRH."
The one-minute video clip above shows the sequence. The city has tried to fix the problem, but after the first attempt, the beacon is now flashing … "TPEBTSAURGH."
More on the story at the Pitetsbkrrh … oops, sorry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Link
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