Klingensmith Appraisal Service, LLC

08/09/2022

02/23/2022

USS Clairton Works site we**am capture

12/19/2021

12/13/2021

Jacob Levison (better known as Jay Livingston) was born in 1915 in nearby McDonald, PA at 139 Station Street. As a child, he studied piano in Pittsburgh with Harry Archer, a well-known bandleader and Broadway songwriter in the 1920s. After graduating from McDonald High School in 1933, Livingston went to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he studied choral music and organized and conducted "The Continentals", a dance band that played at campus functions, local nightclubs, and, later, on cruise ships. There he met his lifelong songwriting partner Ray Evans.
After graduating from Penn in 1937, Livingston and Evans moved to New York City to become songwriters. There, Evans worked as an accountant & Livingston as a piano accompanist & musical arranger for NBC Radio.

In 1944, the pair moved to Los Angeles, where they wrote music for a string of Paramount Pictures films. In 1950, Livingston and Evans were asked to write a Christmas song for the Bob Hope movie "The Lemon Drop Kid". As they read the script, Livingston & Evans found themselves with a unique challenge. Out of all of the Christmas films & songs that came before, none have used a City as their principal location. The songwriters found a bit of inspiration within the script which called for Bob Hope's character to stand on a corner dressed as Santa & ring a bell. This prompted the men to discuss all the bells that ring in the city during the holidays - bells on the horses in Central Park, church bells, and Salvation Army bells.

Jay Livingston's younger brother Alan followed his brother's footsteps & moved to Hollywood, where he served as both the president of Capitol Records & the VP at NBC, in charge of television programming. The creator of Bozo the Clown (1946), Livingston signed The Beatles for Capital Records in 1963 and brought them to the United States the next year. He also hired his brother to write the theme song for "Bonanza", created under his direction at NBC.

11/19/2021

11/19/2021

Too cloudy to see the lunar eclipse here. Watching the Griffith Observatory We**am on YouTube.

11/11/2020

Mary Beyer Halsey, 59, Rising Sun, Maryland, the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Cecil Bank, was sentenced today for charges of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, receipt of a bribe by a bank official, and false statement in bank records, in connection with the straw purchase of a home...

11/04/2020

About a dozen areas of Presque Isle State Park, including the lighthouse, will feature illuminated displays as part of new Presque Isle Lights.

11/03/2020

01/22/2020

Does it ever end?

Gregory Gibbons, 54, Mobile, Alabama, was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud affecting a financial institution. The announcement was made today.