{"id":300300,"date":"2026-10-05T19:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T19:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300300\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T19:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T19:38:08","slug":"installation-begins-for-2026-pittsburgh-walk-of-fame-inductees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300300\/","title":{"rendered":"Installation begins for 2026 Pittsburgh Walk of Fame inductees"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2026 class includes broadcaster Myron Cope, entrepreneur H.J. Heinz, and Penguins player\/owner and philanthropist Mario Lemieux<\/p>\n

\"DefaultPITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n

Crews have begun to install the second set of markers for the Pittsburgh Walk of Fame in the Strip District. <\/p>\n

The installation will add 10 new people to the attraction, which debuted last October at the Strip District Terminal<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The Walk of Fame, founded by Nancy Polinski Johnson, highlights Pittsburghers who have made a mark on the nation’s cultural heritage. <\/p>\n

This year\u2019s honorees are Myron Cope, Martha Graham, Charles “Teenie” Harris, Franco Harris, H.J. Heinz, Shirley Jones, Mario Lemieux, Henry Mancini, Jimmy Stewart and George Westinghouse. <\/p>\n

Mario Lemieux is scheduled to appear at the induction ceremony. Select individuals will be at the ceremony to accept the honor on behalf of the nine other inductees. <\/p>\n

The plaques will be officially unveiled at the induction ceremony, which will take place next Tuesday, Oct. 13, at 10 a.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 class includes broadcaster Myron Cope, entrepreneur H.J. Heinz, and Penguins player\/owner and philanthropist Mario Lemieux PITTSBURGH…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2358,5916,93057,104526,104527,41495,53367,54137,7501,44467,28596,104530,104531,73,75,74,18899,7494,9054,2731,56958],"class_list":["post-300300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-2358","tag-charles","tag-fame-inductee","tag-george-westinghouse","tag-h-j-heinz","tag-harris","tag-heinz","tag-honoree","tag-induction-ceremony","tag-installation","tag-mario-lemieux","tag-martha-graham","tag-myron-cope","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-walk","tag-pittsburgh-walk-of-fame","tag-plaque","tag-strip-district","tag-teenie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300300","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=300300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}