Mike Suley

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Jvukela1922 1922 Pittsburgh

My wife's paternal grandparents, Frank and Mary Vukela. They lived on Josephine Street in the Sou...

Suleys 1948 Pittsburgh, Pa.

My parents, Helen and Michael Suley in 1948. They are with my sisters Karen and Elaine in our bac...

Scotchbottom_(2) 1930s Hazelwood

My wife's uncle, John Hydeck, is painting the finishing touches on the sign outside of Hydeck Caf...

Suleyman_024 1956, Christmas Carrick

My wife with the first land line phone she ever owned. She was only one year old at the time. It ...

3_suleys 1955 Pittsburgh, Pa.

My mother loved to take pictures of us when we were young. On this day she made us line up and po...

Michael_j_003 1958 Carrick

My wife, Mary, in her backyard on Poplargrove Street in Carrick in the summer of 1958.She grew up...

Michael_j_010 1988 South Park

My wife between two of our friends, Monica and Chuck. I remember the carving on the shelter, "Jim...

Mikennat 1979 Mount Lebanon

The Disco era came to Pittsburgh in the late 70s. Although I hate to admit it, I became part of i...

Mikennat_009 1993 Kennywood Park

My son was not tall enough to ride the Jack Rabbit. He climbed the fence and said, "Can I ride it...

Hydeck_1930s_(2) Late 1920s Hazelwood

My wife's Aunt Ann and Uncle John Hydeck owned businesses in Hazelwood for over 50 years. The pho...

Vuk1973 1973 Carrick

My wife with her parents on her graduation day in 1973. Mary attended Carrick High School and liv...

94_all-star 1994 Gateway Clipper

The All-Star game came to Three Rivers Stadium in 1994. All of baseball's mascots were part of a ...

Cmoa77_007 1972 Carrick

My wife, Mary was 17 years old when she was a member of the rifle squad at Carrick High School.

Cmoa99_062 1958 Pittsburgh

My wife Mary was three years old when she had lunch at her grandmother's house.

Vukela_015 1950 Pittsburgh

My wife's father, Joe. He worked in the steel mills and was part of Pittsburgh's tough working cl...

Cmoapt2_003 1973 Baldwin

My beautiful sister, Judy (in purple) with her friend Audrey in 1973. Judy died from a brain tumo...

Cmoapt2_002 1944 Pittsburgh, Pa.

My mother-in-law, Frances Skalniak, was seventeen when her high school photo was taken.

Steelersmikesuley 2011

It was a thrill for my family to meet Chuck Noll in 2011.He is signing my Terrible Towel from Sup...

Point 2013 West End Overlook

My son, Michael and his partner, Laura. That beautiful view of our city is the attraction at the ...

Greatgrandmas_(4) Pittsburgh

Four Great-Great Grandmothers from the Pittsburgh area. Using new technology on old photos we can...

June_1993_(2) 1993 Kennywood Park

The joy of the Whip in Kiddieland at Kennywood. Michael was four years old at the time.

Vukela1925j 1924 South Side

My wife's paternal grandmother Mary Vukela. She is with her sons (l-r), Joe and John and daughter...

Zoo71 1971 Pittsburgh Zoo

My brother, Ron Suley, took my nieces to the zoo in December, 1971. Left to right are Lisa, Renee...

Holy_family_1962 1962 Emsworth

My sister Karen was a resident of the Holy Family Institute in the early 60s. This photo was take...

Pictures_from_mikes_camera_128 2009 The Wall, Oakland

All that remains of Forbes Field is the center field section in Oakland. Each year, on October 13...

Fran1938 1938 Hazelwood

My mother-in-law, Frances, with her mother in 1938. The photo was taken in their backyard. They l...

Jim 1966 Pittsburgh

This prom photo was taken of my friend, Jim Augustine in May, 1966. Jim drowned a month later at ...

Sulmike65_024 1959 Pittsburgh, Pa.

My wife, Mary was four years old when she went to see Santa at the Joseph Horne Co. downtown.

Vukela_019 1942

My wife's father (right) with a friend in 1942 before he left to serve in the Philippines in Worl...

Mjs42jv 1942

The soldier on the left is my wife's father, Private Joe Vukela. He served in the Philippines dur...

1962 1962 North Park

Watermelon with my sister, brother-in-law and their two girls. The McKee and Suley brothers are s...

Maz_statue_dedication_2 2010 North Shore

The dedication of the Mazeroski statue was well attended by former Pirate players and the public....

Suley_9_011 1974 Brookline

In my home in Brookline with my Sheltie, Pokey. We were enjoying the big screen TV (25 inch) with...

Mike1966 1966 Edgewood

I wore a suit when I performed with my rock band in 1966. Well,I was just seventeen and you know ...

Vukela_family Late 1940s South Side

My wife's parents enjoying a meal with his mother, Mary. Her uncle and aunt are standing in the b...

July__1992_ 1992 Dormont Pool

The Dormont Pool is one of the largest pools in Pennsylvania.It was named as a Historic Landmark ...

April_1960 1960 Carrick

My wife is playing with her dolls in the kitchen. She was five years old.

Mike49_(2) 1949 Homewood

My mother holding me shortly after I was born. My sisters look on.

Cousins2013 2013 Chalfant

Everyone is a second or third cousin except for the big guy with the beard.

1949 1949 Homewood

My parents are the second couple smiling on the left. They were in their mid-30s and seemed to be...

Johnbarone 1890s Italy

My maternal grandfather, John Barone. He came to America with his family in 1903. This is my gran...

1949 1949 Homewood

My father on the left and my mother (in white) with friends at their home. I was born the same ye...

1995kw 1995 Kennywood Park

Mascots Freddy the Flame and Kenny the Kangaroo with my son and friends at Equitable Gas day at K...

1947three 1947 Homewood

My three older sisters with my parents, Michael and Helen Suley, in 1947.

Vukela_1939 1939 South Side

My wife's father, Joe, was 17 years old when this photo was taken in 1939. The microphone is an ...

John_b 1941 Homewood

My maternal grandfather, John Barone, with my parents on their wedding day in 1941. John was the ...

1952 1949 Homewood

There are very few photos of my parents partying with friends. This one always comes to mind. The...

1941_-_4-30 1941 Homewood

My parents, Michael Suley and Helen Barone Suley on their wedding day in April, 1941.

C21_suley_88 1988 Castle Shannon

My wife and I owned Suley Real Estate on Route 88 in the 80's. We opened the business before we w...

1975_rachel_barone_and_susan_suley_w_elaine 1975 Penn Hills

My sister, Elaine on her wedding day in 1975. My maternal grandmother, Rachel, is on the left and...

Vukela_family_003 1950s South Park

A co-ed volleyball game in the mid-1950s. My wife's father is on the left in the white shirt.

1948 May, 1948 Homewood

My mother with her dog in her backyard in Homewood. There are so many pictures from that period w...

Hair 2011 Heinz Hall Stage

In the 60s I saw the broadway musical "Hair" at the Nixon Theater downtown. In my 60s....I saw Ha...

Andy67 1967 Harmarville

Our band performed at a club in Harmarville in 1967. I'm singing while our bass player, Andy Conl...

Vukela_012 1946 Hazelwood

My wife's parents, Joseph and Frances Vukela, standing at 13 Rutherglen Street in Scotch Bottom (...

Suleys50 1950 Pittsburgh, Pa.

My mother loved having photographs of her family. She had three daughters and three sons. This ph...

2007 2007 Mount Lebanon

My son with members of his rock band in high school. This photo was taken in the garage of a band...

Suleys_49 1949 Homewood

My mother sitting next to my sister, Elaine. My mom's brother, John Barone and his wife, Anna, ar...

Dad1963 1963 Wilkinsburg

This is my father with my nieces, Lori and Judy, a few weeks after the Kennedy assassination. I d...

Mikeog_(2) 1966 Edgewood

Our band provided the music on Friday nights in the gym at Edgewood High School.

Band66 1966 Pittsburgh, Pa.

We were students at Edgewood High School and we played in a band. There were times we wore suits ...

1966_our_gang 1966 Edgewood

Our rock band performing at the Edgewood High School Rec Hall dance in 1966.

3boys1951 1951 Homewood

My mother loved this picture of my twin brothers and me in 1951. I wasn't crazy about it. The bik...

Joe__vukela_(3) 1924 South Side Flats

I never met my father-in-law, Joseph Vukela. He was born and raised in the South Side of Pittsbur...

1962 1962 Penn Hills

In front of my grandmother's home on Beulah Road in Penn Hills. My mother , sister and brother af...

Heinz1959 1959 H.J. Heinz Company

My wife's paternal grandfather, Frank Vukela, is the fifth person from the left. He was Croation ...

Dad_(3) 1929 California

My father was born in Pittsburgh and ran away from home as a teenager. My uncle went to the west ...

Grandma_barone_1974 1974 Oakland

My mother's family came here from southern Italy in 1903. Here is my grandmother, Rachel Barone, ...

Ourgang1966 1966 Edgewood

We were in a rock band in 1966. This photo was taken in front of Edgewood High School on Maple Av...

New_picture_(1) 1974

My Italian grandmother, Rachel Barone, dancing the Tarantella at my brother's wedding. My brother...

Suleys_048 1943 Homewood

My mother and father with their first child, Judy. My mother was 28 years old.

G8 2009 Downtown

I worked in the County Office Building during the G-20 Summit in 2009. It was very quiet downtown...

Cmoa77 1966 Edgewood

Eddie was the only guy with a convertible when I was in high school in the 60s. It gave me the op...

Brothers1963 1963 Wilkinsburg

I took this photo of some friends who went to St. James School with me in 1963 .We were all fourt...

1966central 1966

We formed a rock and roll band in 1966. We were influenced from the Beatles appearance on TV two ...

May1949 1949 Homewood

It was the first communion for my late sister, Judy. It is also the first photo of me in my mothe...

1941 1941 Homewood

My mother before she married my father. She is sitting next to her mother, Rachel. The three wome...

1945_may May 1945 Homewood

My mother, Helen, with my two older sisters. My parents lived on Upland Street in Homewood.

1963_w 1963 Wilkinsburg

That's me riding shotgun in a Wilkinsburg Paddy Wagon. For some reason I had my mother's Instamat...

Skalniak1911sb 1913 Hazelwood

My wife's mother, Frances, was raised in an area known as Scotch Bottom. We know that area today ...

1960_-_feb._22jpg 1960 Wilkinsburg

My Cub Scout group was part of St. James School. My brothers were also scouts. My brother Don is ...

1977_brookline Brookline

I'm probably enjoying "Bell Bottom Blues" with my headphones. That's my loyal Sheltie, Pokey, enj...

1974_rachel__helen_and_six_children December 14, 1974

My parents had three girls and three boys in that order. This photo was taken at the wedding rece...

Hunky_90 1990 Station Square

The statue was called, Hunky Steelworker." It was a feature of the Three Rivers Arts Festival in ...

1978 1978 Brookline

I'm washing my first new car. It was a 1978 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. I became a Realtor the ye...

1977 April, 1977 Brookline

No digital downloads here. I am either playing vinyl or reel-to-reel tape through my headphones. ...

1259_upland 1946 Homewood

My father with my two sisters on the steps of our house on Upland Street.

Mom_37 1937 Pittsburgh, Pa.

My mother, on the left, with friends. She was 22 years old at the time. The woman on the right is...

1997 July 23, 1997 Bellevue

The night that the County Commisioners appointed me to a six-year term on the county appeals boar...

1941_auntmary April 30, 1941 Homewood

My mother, Helen, with her sister Mary Barone. This is one of the few color photos from that period.

Elvis73mikesuley June, 1973 Civic Arena

We saw Elvis live at the Civic Arena. He did two shows. He was still thin at the time.He introduc...

1930_-kennywood_w-_helen_and_rachel Summer,1930 Kennywood

My mother, Helen Barone, with her parents and relatives at Kennywood Park in 1930. My mother was ...