Hard Rock Cafe Pittsburgh

Horizontal guitar with incline car moving from sound board to headstock. City skyline in the background and the word "Anniversary" on a ribbon at the bottom of the guitar. HRC logo on the left and "10th" on the headstock. Released at the 10th Anniversary collectors' breakfast on June 24, 2012.

This version has a blue sky, black guitar neck and a red ribbon.

Style: painted

Back print: 5 lines - Hard Rock®, hardrock.com, limited edition 300, Pin USA, China

Back pattern: crossed guitars and logos

Orginal distribution: retail and/or online

Base material: gold appearance

Horizontal guitar with incline car moving from sound board to headstock. City skyline in the background and the word "Anniversary" on a ribbon at the bottom of the guitar. HRC logo on the left and "10th" on the headstock. The word "Staff" is on the neck. Released to STAFF only at the 10th Anniversary collectors' breakfast on June 24, 2012.

This version has a gold sky, grey guitar neck and a black ribbon.

Style: painted

Back print: 5 lines - Hard Rock®, hardrock.com, limited edition 100, Pin USA, China

Back pattern: crossed guitars and logos

Original distribution: to staff members only

Base material: silver appearance

Scantily clad woman standing beside a steel number 12. She is riveting the rivets with a guitar head wrench. She is wearing a white bikini top and yellow construction hat. She has one foot propped on the HRC Logo with 2014 on the top banner and Pittsburgh on the bottom banner. The word "Anniversary" is at the bottom of the number 12.

Style: painted

Back print: 5 lines print - Hard Rock®, hardrock.com, limited edition 300, Pin USA, China

Back pattern: guitar pics with the HRC logo on them

Original distribution: retail and/or online

Base material: silver appearance

Original retail price: $12.00

This pin is two girls sitting on top of a purple bat. The bat's body is a 3-D number 13. The girls are sitting on a banner that says "Anniversary".

The girl on the left is a red head construction worker wearing a yellow hard hat and holding a hammer. The girl on the right is a blonde welder wearing a welder's face shield and holding a butane welding tank. Both girls are wearing red stilettos.

Dangling from the body of the bat is the HRC logo with the city name on the lower banner.

The bat represents the movie 'The Dark Knight Rises" which was the third and final installment of the Batman trilogy. The movie was filmed in Pittsburgh.

Style: painted

Back print: 4 lines - Hard Rock®, hardrock.com, limited edition 300, made in China

Back pattern: opposing diagonal guitars and logos

Original distribution: retail and/or online

Base material: antique silver (Blued)(Black appearance)

Original retail price: 16 USD

Silver vertical Flying V guitar with the Roman numerals XIV across the middle on a wing banner. The center of XIV is on a black circle.

The HRC logo is at the bottom of the headstock with the word "Anniversary" on the top banner and the city name Pittsburgh on the lower banner. The year 2016 appears on the guitar neck. Holographic security badge in the form of a guitar pick on the back of the pin.

Style: unpainted mostly, painted in one section

Back print: 4 lines - limited edition 300, Hard Rock®, hardrock.com, made in China

Back pattern: diagional guitars and logos

Original distribution method: retail and/or online

Base material: silver appearance

Original retail price: $14.00 USD

Sexy redhead sitting on top of steel girders. The girders are built on a horizontal guitar. The HRC logo sits within a molten steel cauldron above the guitar and between the girders. The top girder has the words "15th Anniversary". The guitar has the city name Pittsburgh and the year 2017. The holographic security guitar is on the back of the pin. LE300. $12 released on 24 July 2017 Painted style. 4 Lines print. Logo - Musical Theme - Guitars Drums Logos etc Pattern. This pin was sold through retail. Base Material is Silver Appearance

Same as #95386, except the word "Staff" appears in white lettering on the vertical line of the capital "P" in the city name. The design, although the same as #95386, is crisper and more defined. Released to staff on July 28, 2017. LE150. Painted style. 4 lines print. Logo - Musical Theme - Guitars Drums Logos etc Pattern. This pin was only distributed to staff members. Base Material is Antique Silver (Blued)(Black appearance).

This pin is a guitar with a stylized body representing the outline of Fort Pitt behind the Pittsburgh Coat of Arms (two horses on either side of a crown with a bald eagle above the crown).  The Hard Rock Cafe logo appears near the headstock on the neck of the guitar.  The city name PITTSBURGH appears on the lower arc of the logo.  Below the logo is a horizontal banner with the words "17th Anniversary" on the banner.  The pin sold in retail for $14.00 USD.  The back of the pin has the holographic guitar pick security badge and a 4-line box.

18th anniversary pin resembling Pennsylvania state driver's license. Pin is a near rectangle with rounded corners, divided vertically into three sections. At center is a large white rectangle, at left is a glittering blue strip, and at right is a yellow strip.

On blue strip, written sideways in gold script, is the word "Pennsylvania." At far left of white rectangle, written sideways in gold capital letters, are the words "License to Rock."

At top of pin is a Hard Rock Cafe logo with city name in gold. At right of logo are the words "18th Anniversary" in two rows of gold text. At center is the street address for Hard Rock Cafe Pittsburgh in two rows of gold text. At bottom center is a 3D horizontal guitar in glittering blue. At bottom right is a Pennsylvania state map in glittering blue. Year (2020) appears horizontally on map in gold.

Back of pin says "Limited Edition 300."

Base material: Gold appearance

Style: Painted

Back print: 4 lines

Back pattern: Hard Rock logos and diagonal guitars

Distribution method: Retail

Release date: September 2020

Original retail price: 14 USD

Error version of 18th anniversary pin resembling Pennyslvania state driver's license. This pin differs from the retail version (#619175) in two ways:

1. City name in street address at center is misspelled "Pittsburg."
2. Glittering portions are purple, not blue.

Spelling error was discovered after delivery at Hard Rock Cafe Pittsburgh. Nearly all misspelled units were returned and replaced.

Pin is a near rectangle with rounded corners, divided vertically into three sections. At center is a large white rectangle, at left is a glittering purple strip, and at right is a yellow strip.

On purple strip, written sideways in gold script, is the word "Pennsylvania." At far left of white rectangle, written sideways in gold capital letters, are the words "License to Rock."

At top of pin is a Hard Rock Cafe logo with city name in gold. At right of logo are the words "18th Anniversary" in two rows of gold text. At center is the street address for Hard Rock Cafe Pittsburgh in two rows of gold text. At bottom center is a 3D horizontal guitar in glittering purple. At bottom right is a Pennsylvania state map in glittering purple. Year (2020) appears horizontally on map in gold.

Back of pin says "Limited Edition 300."

Base material: Gold appearance

Style: Painted

Back print: 4 lines

Back pattern: Hard Rock logos and diagonal guitars

Distribution method: Not released

Release date: None

Original retail price: None

The 19th Anniversary pin is a square with a banner at the top and bottom, and four smaller squares in the middle.

It is designed to look like a Andy Warhol painting where he did variations on a theme. In this case it is the HRC logo. The logo and background change color in each of the four frames. 

Andy Warhol is an artist born in Pittsburgh. He famously did a varations painting of Marylin Monroe and the Campbells Soup can.

In the top banner it says "Pittsburgh 2021" and the bottom says "19th Anniversary."

Style: painted

Back print: 4 lines - limited edition 200, Hard Rock, hardrock.com, made in China

Back pattern: logos and crossed guitars

Distribution method: Retail

Original retail price: 14 USD

Pittsburgh's 1st anniversary - female steelworker sitting on guitar shaped I-beam suspended from a hook attached to Pittsburgh HRC logo.  At the top of the logo is a banner with "Pittsburgh" on it.

This version uses the older style logo with a blue background and red font for "Hard Rock." The female is caucasian with brown hair, wearing a white top and blue shorts.

Style: painted

Back print: 5 lines - ©Hard Rock Cafe, hardrock.com, limited edition 2300, Pincraft Inc, made in China

Back pattern: HRC logos

Original distribution: Retail

Base material: Gold appearance

Pittsburgh's 1st anniversary - female steelworker sitting on guitar shaped I-beam suspended from a hook attached to Pittsburgh HRC logo.  At the top of the logo is a banner with "Pittsburgh" on it. "Staff" is written on the left support cable.

This version uses the newer style logo with a yellow background and red font for "Hard Rock." The female is a person of color with black hair, wearing a peach top and white shorts.

The quantity still says 2300 on the back, however I assume 130 is the acctual number, since that is what was previously entered.

Style: painted

Back print: 5 lines - ©Hard Rock Cafe, hardrock.com, limited edition 2300, Pincraft Inc, made in China

Back pattern: HRC logos

Original distribution: Only to Staff

Base material: Gold appearance

This 1st city scene vertical guitar shaped bottle opener magnet features a steel intertwined geometric pattern.

The city  location is written vertically in the guitar neck in dark grey letters and the Hard Rock logo is above the opener in dark yellow with burgundy letters, 'Cafe' in white. 

Retsil price: $9.99 USD

This pin is Pre-Production Pin #1 of the 2002 Car Series. The pin has a black based material while the produced pin #14567 has a silver based material. Painted style. 4 Lines print. Logo - Hard Rock Pattern. Base Material is Antique Silver (Blued)(Black appearance)