The period between Cubs’ World Series wins is unfathomably long.

108 years.

We looked around the Steel City to put that length of time into context.

1908 — Cubs win the World Series. (Also: Theodore Roosevelt is president! Milk costs 7 cents a quart! U.S. Steel is only 7 years old!)

1909 — The Pittsburgh Pirates win the 1909 World Series. (And then the 1925 series, too.)

1911 — Pittsburgh got its H back from the feds who tried to standardize the city’s name as Pittsburg.

1915 — The Pitt Panthers football team wins its first national championship (and then again the next year and in 1918).

1916 — The William Penn Hotel opens.

1920 — The first commercial radio signal is transmitted from KDKA (and continues today).

1926 — Workers break ground on Pitt’s Cathedral of Learning.

1933 — Primanti Brothers opens.

1935 — The Monongahela Incline gets electricity.