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Imagining Best Products at the Branch Museum

In 1972, on a nondescript stretch of Midlothian Turnpike, drivers pulled over to gape at a newly reopened Best Products showroom. The store’s brick facade seemed to be peeling off. One passerby rushed in to tell the employees that the building wall was falling down, only to be informed the effect was intentional.    The …

Remembering Edwin Slipek

In the summer of 1958, Edwin Slipek was sitting with his elbows on the window sill, his face pressed close to the glass. From a room high up in the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, he could see the teaming streets below and the belching smokestacks of steel mills in all directions. The sunrise was …