A bunch of old photos

[thoth]

Thanks, government planners!

(Bend in the road straightened by urban renewal.)

1930

1962 PhillyHistory - Detail View

1967

[Phillyxpat]

I ran into these other images of the Majestic Hotel.

PhillyHistory - Detail View

PhillyHistory - Detail View

PhillyHistory - Detail View

[Phillyxpat]

http://www.phillyhistory.org/PhotoAr...?mediaId=53737

[Phillyxpat]

PhillyHistory - Detail View

[Voodoo]

In honor of this weeks Dad Vail Regatta.

1906

1925

[ZARK]

This would be a March of 1951 Photo in Mayfair, Frankford and Cottman Ave..Temple University Libraries /Paley Ref

[ZARK]

Looking north at Frankford and Unity st. ca.1917..PhillyHistory - Detail View

[dcss1205]

In honor of this weeks Dad Vail Regatta.

1906

1925

That looks like the Reviewing Stand area, but that does not look like the Strawberry Mansion Bridge. OR is that the area near the Remington Statue?

[Phillyxpat]

Looking north at Frankford and Unity st. ca.1917..PhillyHistory - Detail View

1907 - A close up of St. Mark's Episcopal Church built 1907 on the site of the 1840's church. And this is a closer shot of the Phila.Reading R.R. Frankford train terminal, triangular pointed roof in front of the future Unity Frankford warehouse that would became the terminal end of those rail lines.

[Phillyxpat]

Sign: Pierce Arrow Cars PhillyHistory - Detail View

[Voodoo]

That looks like the Reviewing Stand area, but that does not look like the Strawberry Mansion Bridge. OR is that the area near the Remington Statue?

Sorry. I should have specified. But you guessed it. It is the Reviewing Stand area. And it is the Strawberry Mansion Bridge. It just looked younger back then.

[Phillyxpat]

PhillyHistory - Detail View

Can’t you just smell the produce or the dirt from Jersey?

[ZARK]

[Moonraker]

Sign: Pierce Arrow Cars PhillyHistory - Detail View

I'm going to challenge the City records of this one! 21st is southbound & there is a major dip beneath the tracks. Even if it's 22nd, the NE corner housed AFter Six Formals in a higher building. I do not know when the RR bridge was replaced, but it is now modern concrete & squared off.

[Phillyxpat]

I'm going to challenge the City records of this one! 21st is southbound & there is a major dip beneath the tracks. Even if it's 22nd, the NE corner housed AFter Six Formals in a higher building. I do not know when the RR bridge was replaced, but it is now modern concrete & squared off.

Here is another reference on the address. CONTENTdm Collection : Item Viewer

[ZARK]

From the PhillyHistory.org site. Chestnut street bridge looking east from the Schuykill River. ca.1959. You can see the old B & O railroad station.PhillyHistory - Detail View

[Phillyxpat]

Philly side of the Delaware River, New Jersey opposite. The yacht up from Bermuda. Turning around in the river?


Showtime


Independence Hall, the Assembly Chamber


Seal of George II above chair (from when the State House was built)


At the Liberty Bell – “I do believe the thing is a bit chipped” - - Duke of Edinburgh








Dedication of Bicentennial Bell Ceremony – Where did that bell end up? PhillyHistory - Detail View

[Titus]

Isn't the bell still in that minimalist tower? I didn't think they had torn down the old visitors center as yet - did they?

[Phillyxpat]

Had heard they were going to move it somewhere. Read an old Philly paper from 2009 on the Internet. Are they going to move it? Where is it going? Etc.

[jbk]

Had heard they were going to move it somewhere. Read an old Philly paper from 2009 on the Internet. Are they going to move it? Where is it going? Etc.

Philaphilia: Butt-Fugly Public Art of the Week-- April 12th