Monthly Archives: October 2012
Collapse of The South Street Bridge
When poet Beth Feldman-Brandt wrote Taking Down the South Street Bridge in 2009, she had no idea how powerfully her final line, “We are used to finding our way among ruins,” resonates in PhillyHistory. The original South Street Bridge was supposed to be a marvel of Philadelphia’s Iron Age. Giant iron columns, versions of a design [...]
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Philadelphia Phillies: the Movingest (not the Losingest) team in baseball
Citizens Bank Park from a Wikipedia photo By Yael Borofsky for PhillyHistory.org The thing about October is that the weather is like the baseball — sometimes it’s hot for most of the month, and sometimes it’s very, very cold. After quite a few years of some very “hot” Octobers for the Philadelphia Phillies, this year’s [...]
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“A building that should be treated tenderly and remain undisturbed”
“Immediately south of Independence National Historical Park,” wrote historian Louis Mumford in 1956, “down as far as Lombard Street…is a district that should not be left to time, change and the conflicting aims of real-estate operators. This district has become nondescript—a mixture of seedy residences, lunchrooms, factories, lofts, tombstone-makers’ sheds, old burial grounds and historic [...]
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“The Quintessential Object of Industrial Philadelphia”