The Bruno boys, left to right: A.J., Mark, Eric (and a 1958 London taxi).
“I REMEMBER
ALL THE HYPE.
THERE WAS
SOME CONCERN
IN THE AIRLINES
ABOUT ISSUES
THAT COULD
OCCUR, BUT
OF COURSE
NOTHING DID.”
Bruno family
Shopping
West Hills
Center
Moon Area High School
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“The Matrix” and “The Blair Witch Project.” The Bruno
family also included a copy of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
that featured the final “Peanuts” cartoon by Charles Schulz in
February 2000. They also selected several special editions of
newspapers that celebrated the new millennium and allayed
fears over the Y2K bug. A headline in the Washington Times
declared “Bangs Are Many; Bugs Are Few.”
The Y2K bug was a big concern that ended up being anticlimactic. Bruno flew to Washington, D.C., on Dec. 31, 1999,
and captained another flight the next day without a hitch.
“I remember all the hype,” he says. “There was some concern
in the airlines about issues that could occur, but of course,
nothing did.”
In 2007, Bruno retired as a pilot for US Airways and now
trains corporate pilots. Sheri Bruno remains a flight attendant for
American Airlines. They recently moved into an apartment in
Philadelphia and plan to relocate to Kitty Hawk, N.C., next year.
Laverna Saunders bought the house at 107 Wynview in
2003 and discovered the time capsule last year when she
was repairing some stone pavers. She retired from Duquesne
University in 2014 and plans to give the capsule to the Moon
Township Historical Society.
“The librarian inside me said this is a piece of history,”
Saunders says. “It is a snapshot of Moon history. I understand
the value of historical artifacts. If you don’t take care of your
history it disappears, and future generations won’t understand
their heritage or legacy.”
The capsule also included a number of photographs of
local schools and businesses, such as the West Hills Shopping
Center, although moisture had damaged some of them. The
shoppin