’70s turn 50: City of Champions rises, concerts surge and steel sees last gasp
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Pittsburgh Steelers receiver Lynn Swann dives to catch a pass in Super Bowl X against the Dallas Cowboys on Jan. 18, 1976.
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U.S. Steel Homestead Works, circa 1970.
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Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente.
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Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw (left) and coach Chuck Noll during the 1976 AFC championship game in Oakland, Calif.
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KISS performs at the Stanley Theater in 1975.
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Bruce Springsteen in concert in New York’s Madison Square Garden, Aug. 21, 1978.
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Sign outside U.S. Steel’s Edgar Thomson Works in Braddock.
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Jamaican reggae singer Bob Marley
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Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones performs San Francisco in 1972.
Willie Stargell of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1979 World Series.
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Matt Cavanaugh (12) and Tony Dorsett (33) celebrate a touchdown in the 1976 Sugar Bowl that Pitt won over Georgia.
The new Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh in July 1970.
A fountain at Pittsburgh’s Point State Park with Three Rivers Stadium seen across the Allegheny River in July 1974.
