For nearly 50 years, the Nixon Theater was Pittsburgh’s premiere playhouse.
In the Post-Gazette archives our editors found not only photographs of one of the toughest Hall of Famers but also a story by Jonathan Silver detailing the battles of “Iron Mike.”
In those years, Pittsburgh was flying high.
Look at the picturesPittsburgh at the 1939-40 New York World’s Fair
The pinnacle of her career came in 1961 when Governor David Lawrence appointed her a justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Look at the picturesAnne Alpern, first woman on Pennsylvania’s high court