Ambridge Memories

This blog post is a continuation of the story of the October 5, 1933, Spang-Chalfant anti-strike violence in Ambridge PA. If you haven...

This vintage playing card, featuring Ambridge's American Bridge Co. plant, was part of a deck illustrated with prominent Pittsburgh area...

On October 5, 1933, one of the country's most violent anti-union confrontations took place in Ambridge. Striking workers from several Am...

In 1969, the Ambridge Works, Armco Steel Corp., won Armco's Iron Man award for outstanding safety. According to the Jan. 28, 1970, Beave...

Michigan's Mackinac Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world when it was built in the mid-1950s. The bridge was an engineer...

When I first wrote this article, I had only the first two photos below. But now I have a third, and there's more information about this ...

I primarily liked today's group photo because it seemed quirky. I'm assuming that it wasn't routine for striking steelworkers to...

Today is Veterans Day, so it seemed like an apt day to post this: Spang-Chalfant Veterans Memorial Beaver Valley Times July 15, ...

It's Labor Day, so in honor of all the laborers who built this country, I'm posting a photo of an Armco Ambridge ID tag from Bob Mik...

If American Bridge once had a tennis team , you just know they would have had duckpin bowling teams. In honor of Father's Day, I'...

Verrazano-Narrows Bridge Beaver County Times , November 21, 1964 November 23, 1964, was "American Bridge Day" in Ambridge. ...

American Bridge footbridge over Ohio River Blvd. Beaver Valley Times , February 13, 1954 Original photo caption: BRIDGE TO PLANT Mo...

Wiki Images by Robert Giles Most of the time, Dad wore a fedora – the one I remember best was black and grey herringbone tweed. The...

1952 Daily Citizen photo showing Margaret and Edward Barlow buying a Christmas tree from Edward Carrera  at a Merchant Street lot Th...

by Robert  Giles On the edge of Byers’ Field, 50 yards west of the Byersdale Isaly store, there was a basketball court. How it got ther...

Courtesy, the Author by Robert Giles What a curious thing memory is. All those steelworker picnics and I remember four things. We...

Microsoft Word Illustration by Robert Giles The sign said Wampum PA – one mile. We were still on Route 18 north. We had crossed...