A bunch of old photos

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The original Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, opened in 1855 at 408 and 410 Blight Street, now S. Watts Street, east of Broad and south from Pine.
Great photo! But they should have left the name of the street as Blight St., given the condition of it now!
See 408 Watts Street, Philadelphia, PA - Google Maps - and it looks like the photo was taken on a particularly GOOD day!

Look at the top of the building in the middle of the block east side a Broad St subway sub station. A deco gem stuffed up that little street .

I walk up this street just to see it.

400 S Watts St - Google Maps

Hidden Power Station | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

[nanyika]

Are you saying they moved it? I think the 200 blk of North Darien is gone.

Yes, unfortunately, neither Mrs. Lyster's house nor that section of Darien St. are still with us. Pitt was referring to another old house, two blocks away, on the north side of Vine St., with still stands alone and abandoned. Probably some one was unable to obtain the title to the building in order to knock it down for a parking lot, like the rest of the block.

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This photo may have been taken at the corner of 3rd Street and Bainbridge.

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900 block of N Marshall St, 1925, showing corner market.

[ZARK]

A 1915 photo of Front and Poplar sts., just before the EL construction began. this would be the northwest corner looking west.

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Northeast Corner - 9th Street and Washington Avenue - Looking North on 9th Street. 5/21/1938



Northeast Corner of 9th and Washington Avenue. 9/29/1954

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Broadway Theatre - Broad and Snyder Avenue 8/31/1931



Crowd at Dedication of Broad Street Subway - Snyder Avenue. 9/16/1938



Newsstand - Northwest Corner Broad Street and Snyder Avenue

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On Aug 17, 1894, murderer H.H. Holmes and his partner Ben Pitezel set up a phony patent office at 1316 Callowhill St. There's now a parking lot that stretches the length of the block. Across the street, where the sturdy North American Building resides, there used to be a station for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad.

I wonder if it was taken on purpose or did they just capture a creepy moment in time by chance?



You can see the sign for the phony patent office.

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Two 1912 photos of the Shunk Public School located at 807 N New Market st. Erected in 1852 north of Brown st. and a 1959 Photo of the same building and as I remember it in the sixties as the Beth Eden Community House before being demolished for I-95.http://libwww.freelibrary.org/hip/HI...emID=pdce01143

[Sean]

I've seen pictures of this overhead gas line before. It amazes me that they would hang a large, unprotected gas main over a major road using a suspension bridge.

[Mr Morley]

I've seen pictures of this overhead gas line before. It amazes me that they would hang a large, unprotected gas main over a major road using a suspension bridge.

I'm betting it was done temporarily, in preparation for the construction of the southern part of the Broad St Line. The Snyder Ave station didn't open until 1938, and that photo is dated 1931.

[Mr Morley]

The statue in the middle of the street is of Mattias Baldwin, patriarch of the Bladwin locomotive works, which were on (of course) the other side of Broad St. I have some pictures from the dedication ceremony somewhere.

The statue is now in front of City Hall.

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A 1915 photo of Front and Poplar sts., just before the EL construction began. this would be the northwest corner looking west.

How funny! I just saw another old picture of this bar (in roughly the same era) come up at auction up in Port Richmond. I knew it had to be from that area, but I'd never seen the bar before. Now i wish I'd bid on it!

Before Prohibition, there was no limit on breweries owning bars. I'm guessing that what we're seeing here is a Schmidt-owned bar?

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The statue in the middle of the street is of Mattias Baldwin, patriarch of the Bladwin locomotive works, which were on (of course) the other side of Broad St. I have some pictures from the dedication ceremony somewhere.

The statue is now in front of City Hall.

Good eye Mr Morley I didn't notice the statue kinda blends in with the LuLu arches.
The building on the left with the dome is pretty cool too .

A link about the LuLu Temple.
Shrine_LuLu_Temple_1903_Photo_Album

[Mr Morley]

Good eye Mr Morley I didn't notice the statue kinda blends in with the LuLu arches.
The building on the left with the dome is pretty cool too .

Funny, somewhere along the line, I did some research on that building (it might have been while I was working on the Baldwin photos). It was the Spring Garden Institute, not unlike the Drexel Institute or Franklin Institute at the time: Spring Garden College » History

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10/10/1913

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