12th and Bainbridge - homicide

[BornAndRaised]

Just curious where you got the links / how you know? Most I've seen is the victim was Robert McKee (Metro).

I grew up around there.

[OKT3]

Ahhh, yes, Bacchanal with that creepy bas relief sculpted sign out front.

Sunday nights were free admission with the Lords of something or another just murdering the reggae.

Sons of Ace!

I swear that place had a dirt floor, or was I just loaded....

[Eastcoast]

Sons of Ace!

I swear that place had a dirt floor, or was I just loaded....

Sons of Ace! Holy Hell, that's right!

"After years of touring, Sons of Ace was asked by recording company Emerald Records to relocate to Philadelphia. Ace and sons moved to the Philadelphia in 1981 and became a staple on the music scene almost immediately upon their arrival."

Gully Ranks - Reggae / Hip-Hop / Indie Artist


Between the facade of Bacchanal and the stuffed chimp that was in the front window of Harry's it was a surreal little slice of South Street.

Any of you ever venture into the basement of Lincoln Beer Dist on the other side of Broad?

[NipseyRussell]

when did bacchanal close? i was never there, i think that was a bit before my time...

[MarketStEl]

when did bacchanal close? i was never there, i think that was a bit before my time...

Bacchanal - or, as a secretary I knew in Penn's Chemistry Department in the late 1980s always called it, "the Back Channel" - has been gone for nearly 20 years. I think it closed not long before the MLK Plaza towers were imploded; that took place in the mid-1990s.

[Eastcoast]

when did bacchanal close? i was never there, i think that was a bit before my time...

Must have closed around 1990 or so...perhaps someone with a clearer memory of that time will chime in.

However you did cause me to do a quick search and through this article I found out about a Phila artist I never knew about.

Ellen Powell Tiberino

West Philadelphia: Artistic Views

Bachanal had a very distinctive mural/bas relief piece adorning the outside and I always wondered who created it...

[EdMundo]

Must have closed around 1990 or so...perhaps someone with a clearer memory of that time will chime in.

However you did cause me to do a quick search and through this article I found out about a Phila artist I never knew about.

Ellen Powell Tiberino

West Philadelphia: Artistic Views

Bachanal had a very distinctive mural/bas relief piece adorning the outside and I always wondered who created it...

I think that was the owner's wife or something, but I could be wrong. I knocked my self unconscious on a brass door closer loading music gear out of there and and forget much about the place