{"id":20780,"date":"2025-10-31T12:44:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T12:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/20780\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T12:44:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T12:44:40","slug":"yinzer-cemeteries-pay-homage-to-pittsburghs-past-in-unique-halloween-displays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/20780\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Yinzer Cemeteries&#8221; pay homage to Pittsburgh&#8217;s past in unique Halloween displays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It just wouldn&#8217;t be Halloween in Pittsburgh without some Yinzer flair. Whether it&#8217;s kids dressing up as their favorite Penguin, Pirate, or Steelers player, or adults paying homage to their favorite Pittsburgh history, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/port-authority-bus-sinkhole-downtown-pittsburgh\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">such as the infamous sinkhole bus<\/a>, there&#8217;s always a black and gold theme to be had.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Dormont, the ghosts of Pittsburgh&#8217;s past were on full display as part of a Yinzer Cemetery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/yinzercemetary.png#.png\" alt=\"yinzercemetary.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Pittsburgh&#8217;s history laid to rest in Dormont<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Photojournalist Brian Smithmyer<\/p>\n<p>The creative lawn display remembered the past landmarks in the city, such as Forbes Field, Three Rivers Stadium, The Log Jammer, and Century III Mall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The display can be seen on Potomac Avenue in Dormont.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, closer to the city, another &#8220;Yinzer Cemetery&#8221; exists in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Morningside neighborhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/morningsidecemetery.png#.png\" alt=\"morningsidecemetery.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Remembering Pittsburgh&#8217;s past in Morningside<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Digital Producer Patrick Damp<\/p>\n<p>Just like its counterpart in Dormont, it remembers even more localized places like the Millvale Hardees, the Morningside Avenue Rite Aid, and the South Side &#8220;Burger King.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those decorations can be found on Chislett Street in Morningside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It just wouldn&#8217;t be Halloween in Pittsburgh without some Yinzer flair. Whether it&#8217;s kids dressing up as their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[732,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-20780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-halloween","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}