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Growing up, I was always under the impression that Alice from The Brady Bunch was from Pittsburgh, but after a little investigation, I guess I was wrong.
Where did I get that impression?
I don't know, the Brady Bunch didn't live in my neighborhood.
Jazz Musicians, Billy Strayhorn (Lush Life composer), Earl "Fatha" Hines, great pianist, Errol Garner (Misty, a classic), Bill Eckstine, jazz singer .... all great, all deader than Lincoln.
Fight fans? At one time, maybe in the thirties, the Pittsburgh Lyceum, a white only boxing gym owned and run by the Epiphany Catholic Church, had five of the eight world champs training and fighting out of that gym. Pittsburgh, for a city its size has had way more than its share of champions.
Billy Conn, for one, who grew up on Shakespeare Street in the East End, was Light Heavyweight Champion of the World, and who at 168 pounds, came a breath away from taking the Heavyweight Title from Joe Louis, the Brown Bomber.
Growing up, I was always under the impression that Alice from The Brady Bunch was from Pittsburgh, but after a little investigation, I guess I was wrong.
Where did I get that impression?
In the early 90s, Ann B. Davis went to the Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania
He had a BF address, but actually lived in Patterson. His daughter went to Blackhawk H.S., and my dad was his optometrist. Every time I see those trademark glasses, I think of my dad.
Fight fans? At one time, maybe in the thirties, the Pittsburgh Lyceum, a white only boxing gym owned and run by the Epiphany Catholic Church, had five of the eight world champs training and fighting out of that gym. Pittsburgh, for a city its size has had way more than its share of champions.
Billy Conn, for one, who grew up on Shakespeare Street in the East End, was Light Heavyweight Champion of the World, and who at 168 pounds, came a breath away from taking the Heavyweight Title from Joe Louis, the Brown Bomber.
And when asked why did he try going toe to toe with joe when he had the fight won he said "whats the sence of being irish if you can't be dumb."
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