![]() ![]() ![]() The little girl is my sister and the kid on the far left was our neighbor, Larry. This was taken as we were watching a parade in 1953.that's me on the right with my beer (I have no idea what that is ). The Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce was responsible for the week's festivities and decided to combine the tribute to Edison with a tribute to Pittsburgh's groundbreaking industrial firms, known as "Fifty Years of Pittsburgh Progress a Glorious Success." The celebration included a Pageant of Light and Progress at Forbes Field, which featured historical skits about prominent individuals such as Andrew Carnegie, George Westinghouse, and H.J. Over 25,000 people attended festivities at Forbes Field while a record-breaking 70,000 spectators journeyed to Bettis Field on October 28 to witness the air circus. The celebration, which began on October 23 and concluded on October 28, included a parade of illuminated floats, a pageant of lights hosted at Forbes Field, and an air show at Bettis Field. Description: Pittsburgh's celebration of the Lights Golden Jubilee was in honor of the fifty-year anniversary of Thomas Edison's invention of the incandescent electric lamp.
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