Official Old Photo Challenge Thread (Pittsburgh: buildings, Jewish, good)

[I_Like_Spam]

Are you sure that Commonwealth wasn't at 915 Liberty instead in 1974, where Specialty Luggage is today?

Commonwealth Heating was definitely damaged severely by the fire, but unless my memory is off a bit, I'm not sure that building had to be razed.

[Eugo]

Sorry, I should have been more clear. 917-919 Liberty was one building with 2 occupants - Commonwealth on the left, Matt's on the right. The whole thing (except for the side walls) was demolished in 1976 and is now the parking lot.

[ossewa]

Puzzle #7.

The next few puzzles I've worked up all deal with Pittsburgh's proud tradition of labor riots. The Homestead Strike of 1892, the Railroad Riot of 1877, and the Cotton Mill Riots of 1845 and 1848, all represent the Yinzer's natural reaction to be being pushed around: street fights.


By July of 1892, Henry Clay Frick had broken the AAISW, the Homestead steel workers union. As men began slowly reporting back to work, the consensus view was that it was a Pyrrhic victory for Carnegie Steel; although they had succeeded in eliminating collective bargaining at the Works, they had suffered a public relations disaster. Frick's ruthlessness and violence demonstrated the depths to which capital would sink to protect its power and hiding in Europe during the conflict had wrecked Carnegie's reputation as a friend of the working class. The American public was solidly behind the strikers and while a terrible defeat, the union movement could very well have made a comeback.

On July 23rd, one of the following individuals barged into Frick's office and attempted to assassinate him. The attempt failed and Frick's bravery and the assassin's foreign and anarchist background triggered a massive swing in public opinion. Now Frick was seen as standing up against the horde of foreign radicals which permeated the immigrant working class. Organized labor was dealt a severe blow and the mills wouldn't be unionized until the Great Depression, forty years later.

Lets say that YOU were there and the Pittsburgh Police have asked you to identify the suspect from this line-up.

Suspect A:


Suspect B:


Suspect C:


Suspect D:


Suspect E:


Suspect F:


Suspect G:


Suspect H:


OK. Which one of these upright and respectable gents is the would-be assassin? Bonus points for naming the Attentater and any of the other men in this rogues gallery...

[slamont61]

Suspect D - Alexander Berkman.

[ossewa]

Nice job, slamont61. Now how about matching up the suspects with their real names?

Robert LaFollette- founder of American Progressivism.
Louis Lingg- German immigrant, Anarchist, Haymarket Square martyr.
H.C. Frick- Overholt whiskey heir, King of Coke, douchebag.
William "Big Bill" Haywood-I.W.W. organizer, cyclops.
John Reed-journalist, author, would-be revolutionary, buried in the Kremlin!
Charles Guiteau-insane lawyer, Garfield's assassin, misrepresented as an Anarchist.
Leon Czolgosz- Polish immigrant, McKinley's assassin.

[Hopes]

Suspect A is LaFollette
Suspect B is Czolgosz
Suspect C is Frick
Suepct D is Berkman
Suspect E is Haywood
Suspect F is Reed
Suspect G is Lingg
Suspect H is Guiteau (by process of elimination)

[slamont61]

Charles Guiteau-insane lawyer, Garfield's assassin, misrepresented as an Anarchist. - C

Frick is H

[ossewa]

Close. You got 2 wrong...

[Hopes]

Looks like Slamont sorted it out.

[MaryS80]

Originally Posted by slamont61

Suspect D - Alexander Berkman.

And I was thinking D looked the most normal of them all. He looks like a nice respectable Jewish young man.