Post from Pittsburgh Today

  The television ad that launched the Levi’s jeans “Go forth” campaign starred Braddock as a bleak example of post-industrial decline. It opened with shots of an empty warehouse boarded with plywood and ghostly abandoned houses, windowless and strangled by brush, while a girl’s voice intoned: “A long time ago, things got broken here. People got sad and left.” The ad, which portrayed the economically distressed A ...