Greetings from the Queen City

Bacon's Castle Rendered in Lego

William Penn Annex

Money Well Spent

Love(s) Train(s)

Please move away from here

"I'll Get Right On It"

Bottles

Indian and Soldier and Tour Guide

A Maynard Dixon mural outside the headquarters of the Bureau of Indian Affairs at the United States Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C..

A Lunch Supreme

Franklin's nominee for national bird

Fall Line

Home is Where the Stuff Is

The Hand that Built America

Plenty (Second)

Almonds from Heaven

Give My Regards to Broad Street

Spartan Beauty

The Trashman Cometh

On the Waterfront

Public Works

On the Rocks

Happily Married

There Will Be Brahms

Lunch hour cultural experience

You Can't Go Home Again (Part II)

But some things never change

Plenty

The Philly I Know

Bright, chic, studio convenient to all the action of Market East, literally on top of 8th & Market transit hub, sleeps two, dirt cheap.

Prison Bus

Subterranean Museum of Philadelphia History

To walk through Center City Philadelphia's extensive underground pedestrian concourse is to walk through a living museum of the great city that was. Here are some highlights:


Under South Broad. Renamed First Union Building, then Wachovia Building...

PNB was absorbed into CoreStates, which later became First Union, which was bought by Wachovia, which in 2008, was acquired by Wells Fargo.

Under 12th & Market Streets, PSFS signage remains underground and atop its legendary tower, which itself is now home to a hotel. Elsewhere in the concourse, signage for a PSFS branch office remains, and newer tiling evidences the location of its long-gone underground entrance.

No smoking, folks. Presumably, this sign has not yet been removed because SEPTA's employees are too busy sitting in token booths refusing to make change.

The venerable Strawbridge & Clothier chain shuddered, it's former flagship location is now proposed as a home to Center City's first slots parlor.

Beneath 8th Street at Market. Closed and the large building demolished, Gimbels' former site is now occupied by surface parking.

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Feathers

Gothic revival chair

Lunch assembly line

Crosswalk to Nowhere

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Good fances make good neighbors