Ride down Spring Street from the old high school

It appears the pot holes are finally getting the upper hand. The city intends to close Spring St. from High St. up to Cornell

Tube City Video Almanac for June 8, 2009
by tubecityonline

Steeler Nation video by NFL Films

McKeesport High Class Reunions in 2009

Always check
http://www.theconsortiumforpubliceducation.org/reunion.htm
for up to date information

Class of 1944 (65th)
Aug. 29
Youghiogheny Country Club

Class of 1954 (55th)
Sept. 12
Greensburg Country Club

Class of 1959 (50th)
Aug. 22
Radisson Monroeville

Class of 1964 (45th)
Aug. 22
Dave & Buster's at The Waterfront in Homestead

Class of 1969 (40th)
October 10, 2009
Details:
When: Oct 10 2009 6:00 PM - 11:30 PM
Where: Boston Spectrum Hall at Boston Fire Hall
6001 Smithfield St
Boston, PA 15135
(412) 751-9845
http://www.bostonspectrum.com/
Go to groups.google.com and enter mash69 into the search window for the latest information
Click on this link http://groups.google.com/group/mash69?hl=en
Organizer: Michelle Weinstein


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McKeesport Class of 1954 missing people

The Reunion Committee is trying to get in contact with the following classmates:

NAME ----------------------- LAST KNOWN ADDRESS

Milan Tatalovich --------------- GLENDALE, CA

Katherine Puhala Foster ------- ALBUQUERQUE, NM

Joann Cochran Weir ----------- MURPHY, NC

Bruce Koch -------------------- SAFETY HARBOR, FL

William Suckfield -------------- MCKEESPORT AREA

Pat Reno ---------------------- WARRINGTON, OR

Edward Brakus ---------------- BERLIN, MD

If you can help locate any of these people
please call PHONE -- 678-8119 (That would be area code 412)

McKeesport High School Reunions for 2008

The listings below is from The Consortium for Public Education website. Check the following link for updates:
http://www.theconsortiumforpubliceducation.org/reunion.htm

Class Reunion Listings

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~2008~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Class of 1946 (62nd)
Aug. 22-23
8/22 - Youghiogheny Country Club (3:00 - 8:00 PM)
8/23 -Renzie Park (1:00 - 5:00 PM)

Class of 1948 (60th)
Sept. 26- 5-11 PM,
Holiday Inn,
2750 Mosside Blvd.,
Monroeville, PA 15146
412-372-1022

Class of 1953 (55th)
Oct. 11
Holiday Inn Monroeville

Class of 1958 (50th)
Aug. 22-24
Radisson Monroeville
http://forums.delphiforums.com/58tigers/start

Class of 1963 (45th)
Aug. 16, Dave & Busters at The Waterfront
For information contact: Lillian Boyle 412-751-1495

Class of 1968 (40th)
8/22 - Benito's, Olympia Shopping Center
8/23 - The Boston Waterfront
8/24 - Jukebox Sunday Night @ Sandcastle

Class of 1976/50th Birthday Party
Toothless Tigers Tiki Weekend
April 25-26, Sirata Beach Resort, St. Pete's Beach, FL
For information contact: Ron Kotun at ronkotun@comcast.net
or Kelly King at kking@edisononline.net

Class of 1983 (25th)
TBD, Click below for info
http://mckeesportclassof1983.com/

Class of 1988 (20th)
Nov. 28
Stratigos Banquet Center, North Huntingdon

~~~~~~~~~~~~~2009~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Class of 1959 (50th)
Aug. 22
Radisson Monroeville

McKeesporter searches his roots in Europe

I debated a long time about putting this slide set here but decided this needs to be shared. One of our alumni travels to Europe from time to time. His purpose is to search his family roots with our side benifit of getting to see the fabulous photos he shoots. This slide set has 90 photos of his trip to Slovakia in 2006. If you go to http://mckalum.spaces.live.com/ you can have the opportunity to view many albums with the photos the size of your screen. Follow the instructions at the top of his page for viewing. The big advantage of viewing the photos at his site is you get to read the captions that explain each photo.

Captain Video and His Video Rangers

DuMont Broadcasting's Captain Video - "master of time and space! Guardian of the safety of the world!"

Other than Howdy Doody there wasn't much on TV in the early days. One early adventure series was the live science fiction series Captain Video and His Video Rangers. It had paper and cardboard sets and plenty of miscues that goes with learning how to produce a live program. All that did not matter to us since it was new and exciting to watch. It was the very first science fiction program on TV.

I located a copy of an episode of "Captain Video and His Video Rangers" at archive.org. You can go there and download the copy as a 129MB MPEG4 file. I think somewhere it said it was the first episode.

To view the flash video on the archive site, your browser must have javascript enabled and have the Flash browser plugin, version 7+, from Adobe. So some of you may not be able to view it. If you are unable to view it since computers vary and due to the risk of creating havoc with your system I can not risk giving instructions on how to get the plugin and change your browser settings.

LINK Click this to download a copy to your computer

1949 episode of the TV series "Captain Video"
Rare 1949 episode of the TV series "Captain Video and His Video Rangers", considered by many to be the "Plan 9 from Outer Space" of Classic TV. The show is about a "Space Captain" and his "Video Ranger" who must save the galaxy from the evil Dr. Pauli. Low production values, bad acting and bad writing combine to create a very surreal TV show. The show was live, which would explain the missed cues. It's believed most of the master prints were destroyed after the show was cancelled...