Pittsburgh A To Z is a 2001 documentary created by Rick Sebak

Rick Sebak

Richard "Rick" Sebak is an American film director and producer who lives and works in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the United States.Sebak is the creator of the "scrapbook documentary" genre, many of which he has created for WQED and PBS...

 about 26 things about the City of Pittsburgh for every Letter of the Alphabet. Sebak included a larger area than just the city. In addition to the city, they include Somerset County

Somerset County, Pennsylvania

Somerset County is a county located in the state of Pennsylvania. As of 2010, the population was 77,742. Somerset County was created on April 17, 1795, from part of Bedford County and named for Somerset, United Kingdom. Its county seat is Somerset. It is part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania,...

, Fayette County

Fayette County, Pennsylvania

Fayette County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the2010 census, the population was 136,606. The county is part of the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area....

, and Lawrence County

Lawrence County, Pennsylvania

Lawrence County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. In 2010, its population was 91,108. The county was added to the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area in 2003. The county seat is New Castle....

. They had no rules about what to include. However, double usage of any letter gave it an added attraction. They skipped the letter H

H

H .) is the eighth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet.-History:The Semitic letter ⟨ח⟩ most likely represented the voiceless pharyngeal fricative . The form of the letter probably stood for a fence or posts....

 because the historic spelling of Pittsburgh did not include an H during a period of 20 years.

Letters of the alphabet

• Arrowheads
• Braddock
  Edward Braddock
  General Edward Braddock was a British soldier and commander-in-chief for the 13 colonies during the actions at the start of the French and Indian War...
  
  
• Confluences
  Confluence (geography)
  In geography, a confluence is the meeting of two or more bodies of water. It usually refers to the point where two streams flow together, merging into a single stream...
  
  
• Dormont and Daguerreotype
  Daguerreotype
  The daguerreotype was the first commercially successful photographic process. The image is a direct positive made in the camera on a silvered copper plate....
  
  
• Evergreen Hamlet
  Evergreen Hamlet
  Evergreen Hamlet is a historic district in Ross Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA. It was a planned community that was founded by William Shinn in 1851. Joseph W. Kerr designed all four of the Evergreen Hamlet houses. The community was listed on the National Register of Historic...
  
  
• Fish Sandwiches
• Grant Streets
• Islands
• Historic Spelling of Pittsburgh
• Jeeps
• Kentuck Knob
  Kentuck Knob
  Kentuck Knob, also known as the Hagan House, is a residence designed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in rural Stewart Township near the village of Chalk Hill, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA, about southeast of Pittsburgh...
  
  
• Thomas Leppinski
• Mancini's
• Night Talk
• Opera
  Opera
  Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
  
  
• Rail Trail
  Rail trail
  A rail trail is the conversion of a disused railway easement into a multi-use path, typically for walking, cycling and sometimes horse riding. The characteristics of former tracks—flat, long, frequently running through historical areas—are appealing for various development. The term sometimes also...
  
  
• Soldiers & Sailors
  Sailors
  Sailors is the plural form of Sailor, or mariner.Sailors may also refer to:*Sailors , a 1964 Swedish film*Ken Sailors , American basketball playerSports teams*Erie Sailors, baseball teams in Pennsylvania, USA...
  
  
• Tailgating
  Tailgating
  Tailgating is the practice of driving on a road too close to the vehicle in front, at a distance which does not guarantee that stopping to avoid collision is possible...
  
  
• Ushers
  Usher (occupation)
  Ushers assist visitors by formally showing the way in a large building or to their appropriate seats. This may coincide with a security role. The word comes from the French huissier, with the same meaning , ushers were servants or courtiers who showed or ushered visitors in and out of meetings in...
  
  
• Vinnie's Pizza
• Westinghouse
  Westinghouse Air Brake Company
  The railway air brake was invented by George Westinghouse of New York state in 1869. Soon after, he moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he established the Westinghouse Air Brake Company on September 28, 1869...
  
   in Wilmerding
  Wilmerding, Pennsylvania
  Wilmerding is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,190 at the 2010 census. It is located southeast of Pittsburgh. At the start of the twentieth century, it had extensive foundries and machine shops of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company. In 1900, the...
  
  
• Xitech
• Yinz
  Yinz
  Yinz is a second-person plural pronoun used mainly in southwest Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh, but it is also found throughout the Appalachians....
  
  
• Zambelli Fireworks
  Zambelli Fireworks
  Zambelli Fireworks is a fireworks company based in New Castle, Pennsylvania, part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. Zambelli has produced shows that have been televised on "MSNBC Investigates", the Odyssey Network, the Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, The National Geographic Channel and...
  
  

Bonus features on the DVD

Considering how they didn't pick a "P" in the program, they added extra stories from other WQED

WQED (TV)

WQED is a Public Broadcasting Service member Public television station based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Established April 1, 1954, it was the first community-sponsored television station in the United States as well as the fifth public TV station...

 specials:

• Penn Mac from "The Strip Show"
• Penn Brewery
  Penn Brewery
  Penn Brewery, also known as the Pennsylvania Brewing Company, is a brewery and restaurant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was founded by Tom Pastorius in 1986, and is located at 800 Vinial Street in the Troy Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, on the site of the former Eberhardt and Ober Brewery...
  
   from "North Side Story"
• The Pretzel Shop from "South Side"
• Primanti's
  Primanti's
  Primanti Brothers is a chain of sandwich shops, founded in 1933. Locations are throughout Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and its suburbs, with an additional three locations in the Fort Lauderdale, Florida area...
  
   from "The Strip Show"
• PPG Place
  PPG Place
  PPG Place is a complex in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, consisting of six buildings within three city blocks and five and a half acres. Named for its anchor tenant, PPG Industries, who initiated the project for its headquarters, the buildings are all of matching glass design consisting of...
  
   or PPG Plaza from "Downtown Pittsburgh" and "Thing's We've Made"
• Pip's Diner from "Pennsylvania Diners and Other Roadside Restaurants"