The Pennsylvania Game
Architecture, Union troops & Hello, Dolly!
Season 4 Episode 13 | 27m 39sVideo has Closed Captions
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The Pennsylvania Game
Architecture, Union troops & Hello, Dolly!
Season 4 Episode 13 | 27m 39sVideo has Closed Captions
How did Thomas Kane's troops adorn themselves? Test your knowledge of Pennsylvania trivia alongside three panelists. This program is from WPSU’s archives: Information impacting answers may have changed since its original airing. Promotional offers are no longer valid.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(gentle upbeat music) - [Announcer] This is Columbia on the Susquehanna River, a center for transportation, river and canal, railroad and highway.
In the 1830s, they used a term here for the first time, a term that was later used in World War II.
Do you know that term?
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(gentle bell music) (soft upbeat electronic music) Now, let's get the game started.
Here's the host of the Pennsylvania game, Lynn Hinds.
(audience applauding) - Hello.
Hi, hi, hi.
Hey!
All right.
Got some good questions tonight.
Got a good studio audience.
We got a couple of us Boy Scout troops here.
They're Cub Scout, no Boy Scout troops 66 from Pleasant Gap.
Right?
Give yourselves a hand.
(audience and panelists applauding) And Cub Pack 44 from Pine Grove Mills.
Give yourself, all right!
(audience cheering) Let's greet our panel.
He's back in the number one seat and ready to play the game.
Bernie Asbell.
(crowd cheering and applauding) - [Crowd] Bernie!
Bernie!
- He's an architect from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
He's Greg Dovey.
(audience cheering and applauding) And back with us again, one of our favorite people.
Katie O'Toole.
Katie, nice to have you.
(crowd cheering) Down in Columbia, Pennsylvania, back in the 1830s, they started using the term that caught on and was used in World War II.
- [Announcer] Columbia, Pennsylvania, is on the Susquehanna River, midway between York and Lancaster.
Founded in 1726 as Wright's Ferry, Columbia has played an important role in transportation, river and canal, highway and railroad.
In the 1830s, a term was used, a word later to be widely used in World War II.
Was that term A, scuttlebutt?
B, underground?
C, quonset hut?
Or D, bazooka?
- I'd like to thank my friend Chuck Unger, who does outdoor Pennsylvania for WPSX for the Pennsylvania Public Television Network for that footage.
Chuck can afford a helicopter and I can't.
That's why I'm thanking him for letting me use his helicopter shots.
They coined this termed it was later picked up in World War II.
Was it scuttlebutt, underground, quonset hut, or bazooka?
Bernie, what do you say?
- There are times when I wish I was not in the first seat.
Scuttlebutt sounds like a term from a transportation town.
- [Lynn] I see.
Scuttlebutt.
- I don't know why, but that was a big world war.
- Probably the scuttlebutt was a thing they did in the railroad with the coal.
I don't know.
- Sure.
- Greg?
- Well, I hate to copycat, but I was thinking that scuttlebutt sounds like something that is in the military genre, but not as obvious as the other three.
So I'm gonna stick with number A.
- [Lynn] You're going with A, also.
Okay, Katie?
- Yes, sir.
- Well, I was thinking of it more in terms of someone's anatomy, maybe, but I'm gonna go with A, anyway.
- [Lynn] Everybody's gone with scuttlebutt.
- It better be A.
- It does seem like one of those.
- Were just talking about making up three phony answers with every question, and it's fascinating the things that they choose.
Are they right or are they wrong?
- [Announcer] The answer is B, underground.
According to popular history, the term underground was first used in this context to describe the mysterious way in which slaves escaping to freedom simply disappeared after reaching Columbia.
One pursuer remarked, "There must be an underground railroad somewhere."
In World War II, the underground referred to the elusive group that resisted the Nazis.
- [Greg] Of course.
- The first time the word underground was used in this context was the slaves who got to Columbia, Pennsylvania, and on the Underground Railroad just disappeared.
That's how the Underground Railroad actually named in Pennsylvania.
Columbia, Pennsylvania.
I don't know how scuttlebutt came from or quonset hut, but you know how the term bazooka?
It was the weapon they used in the war on their shoulders.
You know how bazooka got its name?
- The bubblegum.
- Wasn't that from the comic strip?
- Do you know?
- [Bernie] I know you're gonna tell us.
- I know I'm gonna tell you.
There was a comedian on the radio from Arkansas named Bob Burns- - [Greg] That's right!
- Who made a musical instrument out of plumbing from his basement and he actually played tunes on this big plumbing thing and he called it a bazooka.
And the GIS of World War II named the weapon after Bob Burns, who was a very famous comedian of the day.
Isn't it amazing what things you learned that some of which are important and some of which, well, are interesting?
Anyway, let's go to, hmm.
Oh Pittsburgh.
- [Announcer] In 1851, a retired Pittsburgh manufacturer named Colonel James Anderson loaned something to a 16-year-old boy.
That loan caused the boy to give something away when he became a man.
Was the boy A, Andrew Carnegie?
B, John D. Rockefeller?
C, Andrew Mellon?
Or D, John Wanamaker?
- Well, you got two Johns and two Andrews to choose among here.
A retired manufacturer named Colonel James Anderson, 1851, Greg loaned something to a 16-year-old boy and others, but that loan caused the boy to give something away when he became a man.
Who was that 16 year old boy?
Greg?
- Pittsburgh is one of my favorite places.
I really like it.
- [Lynn] Mine, too.
- And Andrew Carnegie gave away lots of money, specifically for libraries.
I suspect that perhaps it was for a book that was loaned to him.
- [Lynn] Okay.
- And so I'll go with number A.
- [Lynn] Interesting story to go with his answer.
Katie?
- Well, when I was a child in Pittsburgh.
- [Lynn] Yes?
- I went to the establishment of Andrew Mellon, where they gave away interest on my savings account.
- I see!
You had one of those little passbook.
Yes, Bernie?
- That man didn't let Andrew Carnegie a book.
He lent him money.
- [Lynn] Did he?
You think?
- And then Carnegie gave a lot of money away so he can have books.
- That's interesting.
Didn't Rockefeller give away dime?
- [Bernie] Dimes.
Dimes.
- Not interest, but I don't know what's the answer here.
- [Announcer] The answer is a A, Andrew Carnegie.
Young Andy was a messenger for the telegram when Colonel James Anderson began loaning books to working boys.
Carnegie never forgot and years later, had a symbolic statue erected for the man who opened the precious treasures of knowledge and imagination to him and other working boys.
The statue was outside the Allegheny Library, the first of some 2,811 libraries Carnegie would endow with more than $60 million.
(gentle music) - I fibbed a little on that.
The first library that Carnegie gave was actually in his hometown of Scotland, but the first one in the United States and the second one was right there on Allegheny Center on the north side.
Old Allegheny, where so many famous artists and writers and so forth are from.
2,811 libraries given by Carnegie.
- [Katie] Can we take that question over, since you fibbed a little?
- Sure, if you want to.
Yeah.
- One of them is in my hometown of Johnstown and it's now the flood museum in Johnstown.
- [Lynn] Oh, okay.
- And this is, well, maybe I shouldn't go any further.
- [Bernie] You said the first one was in Scotland or?
- Well, yeah, his hometown of Scotland.
- [Bernie] Scotland, Pennsylvania.
- No, Scotland.
Yeah, Scotland.
Andy was from Scotland, you know.
He came over when he was like, 10 years old.
Tell you something about his library.
He was a very smart man.
He gave the building, but with the understanding that you had to every year give 10% of what the building cost to buy books for it.
He never really bought books.
He made sure that there would be new books bought every year by this agreement.
So he was quite a man, he was.
Let's talk a little bit about.
Did you know the answer to that, Greg?
- I suspected it strongly.
- Okay.
- I didn't know it.
- [Lynn] Your story was just right.
You are an architect from Chambersburg.
- Correct.
- [Lynn] What kinds of things do you build?
- Well, I don't build anything.
I design buildings.
Residential, small commercial.
I specialize in passive solar, so I do a lot of house editions.
- Well, when I build, the guys that put the nails in, they're just carrying out what you've already planned.
So in sense, you do build it.
- I like to give them credit for what they build and I design it.
They build it.
- You mentioned Pittsburgh.
Katie O'Toole is from Pittsburgh, the south side.
It is an interesting architectural town.
Is it not?
- [Greg] Absolutely.
- Lots of European styles came over with the immigrants from all the different countries and settled right there in that basin and there are areas in Pittsburgh.
Mount Washington, for example, that look like they could be in France or Germany or Switzerland, you know?
I believe.
- Right.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- So take a visit sometime.
Altoona is an interesting town, too.
And there is a company in Altoona that is the last one in the United States to make this product and they may even go out of business.
Who knows?
- [Announcer] Philips E.C.G.
of Altoona is America's largest manufacturer of a vanishing product.
Although the product is an obsolete technology, there are those who argue that newer is not necessarily better.
Does Philips E.C.G.
make A, straw brooms?
B, vacuum tubes?
C, windup alarm clocks?
Or D, rotary dial telephones?
- There aren't many of these made anymore.
It is a vanishing technology, but there are those, Katie, and this is a clue, who argue that newer is not necessarily better.
What does Philips E.C.G make?
Straw brooms, vacuum tubes, windup alarm clocks, or those rotary dial telephones?
- Well, I have all of those in my home.
- [Lynn] Do you?
An old fashioned girl.
(laughs) - So I can't believe they're that obsolete.
I will go with...
I'll go with rotary dial telephones.
- Rotary dial telephones.
Okay.
I remember those very well.
- You're looking at me.
- [Lynn] I'm looking at you, sir.
Yes.
- Well, transistors are better than vacuum tubes, but I mean, they're newer than vacuum tubes.
I think Philips is an electrical company from Europe.
And if it's the same one- - [Lynn] I see.
You think vacuum tubes for things like radios and stuff.
- [Bernie] Radios, radios.
- [Lynn] Greg, what do you think?
A couple answers here.
- That sounds very good and I should know this question since it's a sister city of my hometown, but brooms are always gonna be around.
Rotary dial telephones still prominent.
Windup clocks are always gonna be needed.
I'll go with B, vacuum tubes.
- Okay.
When it comes to new is not better, I like the windup alarm clock 'cause you look over now at your clock radio and it says 12:01, 12:01.
Never just 12, about 12.
What's the answer here?
- [Announcer] The answer is B, vacuum tubes.
Philips E.C.G.
of Altoona has an output of 4 million vacuum tubes a year, with about 85% sold to the federal government.
The tubes are used for replacement parts for military equipment, such as rocket guidance and mobile communications gear.
But the audio industry still buys vacuum tubes.
Audio files argue that transistors just don't deliver the sumptuous qualities and musical detail that tubes do.
But as the government replaces tubes with transistors, the vacuum tube seems to be going the way of the buggy whip.
- Okay.
Vacuum tubes.
The people that love good sounds say that transistors just don't produce the same sound that vacuum tubes do.
So Philips E.C.G.
go on forever, if you will.
Mystery Pennsylvanian time.
We have three clues during the course of a program to the identity of a famous mystery Pennsylvanian and this Pennsylvanian is a famous one indeed.
Here's clue number one.
Born in 1921, Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania.
That's in Cambria County near Johnstown.
Greg may have a bit of an edge on that since he's from Johnstown.
A son of a Lithuanian immigrant coal miner named Buchinsky, his rough good looks would get him to Hollywood.
That's the first clue.
Born in 1921.
Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania.
Son of a Lithuanian coal miner named Buchinsky, his rough good looks would get him to Hollywood.
If you know the right answer or any answer and want to guess, on line one, panel.
Two more lines, two more clues coming up as we go through the show.
There's a famous case in journalism that everybody knows about and it was the right of people to print things and it was Peter Zinger was the guy, but there was a Philadelphia lawyer who represented him.
- [Announcer] In 1735, a Philadelphia lawyer named Andrew Hamilton went to the defense of John Peter Zinger, who had dared to print criticism of New York's governor.
The governor ironically had the same name as a famous Philadelphian of later time.
Was the governor's name, A, Eddie Fisher?
B, Bill Cosby?
C, Jack Klugman?
Or D, Al Martino?
- Now, every school boy and girl knows that the trial of John Peter Zinger for publishing these remarks about the governor was a landmark in the freedom of the press.
But what we don't realize is that it was a Philadelphia lawyer named Andrew Hamilton who went up there and defended Zinger and got him off.
And when I read the name of the New York governor, I thought, gee whizz, this will make an interesting question.
'Cause it was the same name as a famous Pennsylvanian of later times.
Eddie Fisher, Bill Cosby, Jack Klugman, or Al Martino.
- [Bernie] You're looking at me.
- [Lynn] What's your pleasure, sir?
It wasn't Bill Cosby.
It was William Cosby Esquire.
- [Lynn] Is that right?
- Oh, yeah.
- [Lynn] Oh, I see.
Greg?
Who was that famous New York governor?
- Oh, Lordy.
I don't have a clue.
I'm just gonna go with Eddie Fisher on this one.
- [Lynn] Okay.
All righty.
We got a Bill Cosby and an Eddie Fisher.
Down to you, Katie O'Toole.
- I think in the recesses of my journalistic past, William Cosby does ring a bell.
- Well, I'll tell you, whatever his name was, this governor of New York was not as funny as Cosby and couldn't sing as well as Eddie Fisher.
But what was the governor's name?
- [Announcer] The answer is B, Bill Cosby.
The later Bill Cosby is a native of Philadelphia and a governor of his alma mater, Temple University.
The earlier Sir William Cosby was such an unpopular governor that attorney Andrew Hamilton won with a startling defense that Zinger had published the truth.
- That's what they said.
They said, well, you published the truth and you got a right to say it in the paper.
And the governor says, I don't think they oughta be able to publish the truth about me!
It's too embarrassing.
And there've been that quarrel between governors and newspaper people ever since.
- As we take that principle so for granted.
- [Lynn] Oh, I know we do.
- Then it did have to be settled in court one day.
Yeah.
- And remember, please, it was a Philadelphia attorney.
Maybe Andy Hamilton was the first Philadelphia lawyer.
Do you suppose?
Because everybody talks about Philadelphia lawyers.
Score's getting tight over there.
We'll give you the score in a minute, but panel's doing well.
Do you like movies?
- [Greg] Yeah.
- Let's go to the movies and see a movie by Barbara Streisand and guess where she went to film that movie.
- [Announcer] When Barbara Streisand made the movie "Hello Dolly", she went to Strasburg, Lancaster County, to ride on a vehicle that dated back to the presidency of Andrew Jackson in 1832.
Did she ride on A, a railroad?
B, a steamboat?
C, a Conestoga wagon?
Or D, a stage coach?
- Barbara Streisand made the movie "Hello Dolly."
Went to Strasburg in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to ride on a vehicle that dated back to 1832 when Andy Jackson was president and that was a long time ago.
This vehicle was still there, still operating.
Was it a railroad, a steamboat, a Conestoga wagon, or a stage coach?
Greg, you're first on this one.
- Well, that name's, the towns sounds familiar and I think it was a railroad, although the steamboat was about coming online about the same time.
- [Lynn] It's true.
- I'll go with the railroad.
I know there are a lot of those.
- All right.
- Old ones still around.
- Railroad buff.
Katie O'Toole, what'd she ride on?
- The Conestoga wagon seems too obvious, so I'm gonna go with the steamboat.
- Okay.
You're not gonna go with the obvious on this question.
Okay.
Bernie?
- Almost any of those would've come to her in wherever the set was, but I think the steamboat, she might have gone to it.
- Aha!
So you think they would've brought the railroad to wherever she was and the steamboat she had to go to.
What did Barbara Streisand ride on?
- [Announcer] The answer is A, a railroad.
In 1958, Strausburg Railroad was broke when a group of Lancaster citizens bought the 126-year-old short line railroad in order to preserve a tradition.
The freight cars were replaced with passenger cars and America's oldest Shortline railroad was saved.
Since that time, thousands of stepped back into time with a nine mile round trip ride on the road to paradise on the St. Strausburg railroad.
- There were many short line railroads at one time for particular purposes and the Strausburg railroad has been there and is operating today as it has been doing since 1832.
And if you'll subtract 1832 from 1989, 1990, you get a lot of years, whatever it is.
Look at the score over there.
We have a two-way tie between Bernie and Greg.
Three a piece, right?
Let us hear it for these gentlemen.
Encourage them.
(audience applauding) We are not finished yet and the game is not over, Katie, until the last mystery Pennsylvanian clue.
This is number two clue.
After playing an ethnic tough guy in several movies, he went to Europe and stardom in 1968.
In 1971, he won a Golden Globe as the world's most popular actor.
Clue number one, you'll recall, was he was born in 1921, son of a Lithuanian coal miner named Buchinsky in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania.
And then after making several movies playing an ethnic tough guy, he went to Europe and stardom in 1968 and in '71, he won a Golden Globe as the world's most popular, the world's most popular actor.
They're thinking hard over there.
Address, write to us.
If you want to send us an idea for a question or just your comment, we'd love to hear from you.
Our address is simply The Pennsylvania Game, Wagner Annex, University Park, Pennsylvania, 16802, I think.
That's right.
16802.
It's right there on your screen.
Okay.
Thank you very much and let's go on for... Oh, I love this question.
This guy was a musician in Pittsburgh and a newspaper reporter and he invented something that you may have heard of.
- [Announcer] Arthur Wynne played with a Pittsburgh orchestra and boasted that he had been fired from every newspaper in Pittsburgh.
While living in New York, he created something.
The year was 1913.
Did Arthur Wynne create A, the crossword puzzle?
B, the model airplane?
C the harmonica?
Or D, a visit from St. Nicholas?
- Okay, Katie O'Toole, what did Arthur Wynne create in 1913?
Crossword puzzle, model airplane, the harmonica, or that famous poem, "Twas the Night Before Christmas when all through the house," etc., a visit from St. Nicholas?
What do you say?
- Well, I have no hunches except that I'm a big crossword puzzle buff and I'm gonna go with that for no better reason.
- Pittsburgh Orchestra, by the way, when he played for it, was directed for a while by a guy named Victor Herbert, who wrote some pretty fine, impressive music in this country.
But what did Arthur Wynne create, invent, or whatever, Bernie?
No, not that card.
That's the Mystery Pennsylvanian.
You need one of those letters.
Yes.
- Musicians are notoriously mathematical.
Did you know that?
- [Lynn] I didn't know that.
No.
- [Bernie] Yeah and so are crossword puzzled people.
- [Lynn] You both say crossword puzzle Arthur Wynne created.
- Yes, we both do.
- [Lynn] Okay, Greg, what do you say?
- Boy, I hate to be a conformist, but that's what I think it is, too.
Although model airplanes were coming around at the same time, but.
- But let me tell you that what Arthur Wynne created was not called the crossword puzzle.
What was it called?
- [Announcer] The answer is A, the crossword puzzle.
The first modern crossword puzzle appeared in the New York World on December 21st, 1913.
Wynne called it a word cross, but a type setter transposed the words.
Although the New York Times dismissed the crossword puzzle as a primitive sort of mental exercise that would soon fade, today, some 27 million people work one every day.
- Probably sitting around doing crossword puzzles while you got five in every newspaper in Pittsburgh.
Interesting guy.
The word cross puzzle.
Up to McKean County and a fellow named General Thomas Kane, who responded to the call of his nation.
Here's the question.
All right?
- [Announcer] When Fort Sumter was fired on, General Thomas Kane raised 300 men from McKean, Elk and Cameron counties to serve the union cause.
They were known for the distinctive symbol that they wore.
Was that symbol A, turkey feather?
B, raccoon hat?
C, squirrel tail?
Or D, deer tail?
- Okay.
They responded from up in McKean, Elk, and Cameron counties to serve the union for the Civil War and they were known for their distinctive symbol.
Bernie, turkey feather, raccoon hat, squirrel tail, or deer tail?
You're gonna say raccoon's spelled wrong, aren't you?
- No.
No.
Is it?
- Well, it only has.
It can be spelled either way.
- [Bernie] Either way.
Sure.
- With two C's or with one.
- No, I'm just wondering whether there are enough deers around for them to all wear deer tails.
- You think?
I don't know.
- I think... Do you know that he had a relative named Amber?
Amber Kane.
- [Lynn] Amber Kane.
Really?
- Very famous relative.
- [Lynn] I didn't know that.
- Squirrel tail.
- [Lynn] Squirrel tail.
Greg?
- When in doubt, my wife says to follow Bernie.
However, and I should be shot for not knowing this since I lived in Bradford for a while in Port Allegheny.
- [Lynn] Yeah.
- I'm gonna go with A because I know there's a lot of turkey hunting up there.
- [Lynn] Turkey feather.
Okay.
- And it's a tough deal to shoot a turkey.
- Katie?
- Well, by that same logic, I'm gonna go with D because it seems to me there's more deer than people in McKean County.
- There are more deer than people up there, especially the last couple of years.
There have been more.
I don't know if that's the answer, though.
What is the answer?
- [Announcer] The answer is D, deer tail.
Each of the 300 men in the sharp shooting bucktail regiment proudly display the white tail of a buck deer.
Kane's advertisement said, "Marksman wanted.
A company will be formed to support the Constitution of the United States and defend the commonwealth of Pennsylvania."
Kane added, "I will accept any man who will bring with him a rifle, which he knows how to use."
Pennsylvania's bucktail regimen served with distinction during many battles of the Civil War.
- And the pictures you're seeing are of the modern bucktail regimen that keep this tradition going.
Those are really, really neat guys and it's just, you know, we appreciate so much they're coming out for us.
Let's go back to the father of American architectures.
Just for you, Greg.
Let's put the question here.
- [Announcer] Benjamin Henry Latrobe is known as the father of American architecture.
He built the Bank of Pennsylvania, the first monument of the Greek revival in America.
Which of these facts is not true of Benjamin Latrobe?
That he A, helped build the Capitol in DC?
B, built the first city water system?
C, finish the White House for Jefferson?
Or D, founded Latrobe, Pennsylvania?
- Greg, three of those are true.
One is not.
Which one is not true of him?
- Oh, my.
Oh, my, my.
I'm gonna go with A, helped build the Capitol.
- [Lynn] Okay, that he did not help build the Capitol.
Katie, what did he not do?
- I am a sucker for the obvious.
I'm gonna say founded Latrobe.
- [Lynn] Oh, he did not found Latrobe.
All right.
Bernie, what do you say?
- I think he did all those things and that's why they named Latrobe after him, but I don't think he found it.
- [Lynn] You don't think he founded Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
Okay.
Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the father of American architecture.
What did he do?
- [Announcer] The answer is D. Latrobe, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1851, a named for a railroad engineer.
Benjamin Latrobe did help design and build part of the Capitol.
He did finish the White House for President Jefferson and in 1801, Benjamin Latrobe's water system powered by a steam pump made Philadelphia the nation's first big city to have a water supply.
- Now, Benjamin Henley Latrobe did found Latrobe, Pennsylvania, but it was a railroad engineer about 50 years later, not the same guy.
Last clue.
We need an an answer here.
He returned to Hollywood where his 1974 movie role earned 150 million bucks at the box office.
Katie, do you have any idea who we're talking about for our mystery Pennsylvanian?
Just tell us, if you will.
- I have Jimmy Stewart.
- Jimmy Stewart.
- But I know he's not ethnic.
- [Lynn] Greg, what do you have?
- Charles Bronson.
- [Lynn] On the first line.
Bernie, what do you got here?
- Well, he must know.
- You've got Brando and Brando.
We got Charles Bronson on the first line.
Who is son of Lithuanian Buchinsky, our mystery Pennsylvanian?
- [Announcer] Charles Bronson's hard life and tough looks prepared him well for his acting career.
Born in 1921, the ninth child of 15 children born to a Lithuanian immigrant.
He went from mining coal in Cambria County to handling a tail gun on a B29 during World War II.
Charles Bronson studied acting in Philadelphia, then landed several character roles in Hollywood movies, usually playing a tough guy.
1968, he moved to Europe in instant stardom, winning a Golden Globe Award as the world's most popular actor in 1971.
A five foot, 10 inch, 160 pound Bronson returned to Hollywood, playing the leading man to various stars, often starring with Jill Ireland, his wife.
His best known role was in "Death Wish", a movie that grossed $150 million at the box office.
Charles Bronson, a famous Pennsylvanian.
- He was born like, one of like, the ninth child out of what, 15?
And his name was Buchinsky.
His father never learned to speak English.
He came to this country from Lithuania and worked near Johnstown, Cambria County, Ehrendfeld.
- [Greg] And mined, I believe.
- Yeah, and if it hadn't been for, I think he got into a fight or there was a strike or something and he went off to Philadelphia and got in acting, Buchinsky would still be mining coal, probably in Cambria County instead of being Charles Bronson, the great movie actor.
- Lynn, you had a great bunch of questions tonight.
- Well, thank you, sir.
- You know, everybody give credit to the people on the panel, but it's really the questions that really make the- - It's the phony answers and ever since grade school, I've been good at wrong answers.
All I can tell you.
Five foot ten, 160 pounds.
He looks bigger than that, doesn't he?
- [Bernie] Acts bigger than that.
- Famous Pennsylvanians to be proud of and Charles Bronson is one of them.
Thanks for joining us so much, panel.
Thanks to you.
Thanks to our studio audience and see you next time when we all gather right here to play nothing else but The Pennsylvania Game.
See you then.
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