The Maridon
opened on May 8th, 2004. It is the only museum in the Western Pennsylvania
region with a specific focus on Asian Art and Culture coupled with German
Meissen porcelain. The museum — both the objects and the buildings that house
them — is the gift of Mary Hulton Phillips. Patricia Lowry, writing in the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, pronounced the Maridon a "gleaming little gem of
a museum."
The former YMCA now CUBS Hall was the site of Friday night "Tumble Inn" dances in the gym from the 50's to 60's +. Not sure when they ended. As a teenager, it was "Be there or be square." DeWayne Johnston