I recently stumbled across a
blog on the Pittsburgh Radio & TV site. One entry on this blog details a 1963 publication titled
This is Pittsburgh which was written by Josie Carey.
The blog provides a detailed description of
This is Pittsburgh:
This is Pittsburgh is an 80-page, large-format, softcover book that was published by Pickwick-Morcraft Inc., a now-defunct printing company on Baum Boulevard, at the behest of the Regional Industrial Development Corp.
Partly an illustrated encyclopedia of the region and partly an advertisement for relocating to Pittsburgh, the book's subtitle ("We Live Here ... We Like It!") hints that its aim was to dispel the 1950s "Smoky City" stereotype that plagues southwestern Pennsylvania to this day.
The book credits Carey with the text and Wolfson with the illustrations.
One page of
This is Pittsburgh includes some very familiar faces.
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