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Philadelphia Hodgepodge Wall

10th and Vine Streets.

City Wall

15th and Carlton Streets.

Sorry!

A giant Sorry game piece in the Municipal Services Building Plaza at 15th Street and JFK Boulevard.

The Best Ballpark in Baseball

Citizens Bank Park, home of the Phillies, was recently rated the best ballpark in the country by the people at Sports Travel and Tours.

30th Street Station, Philadelphia’s Travel Hub

The interior of 30th Street Station, the busiest train station in Philadelphia.

Nathan Trotter

Old warehouse of Nathan Trotter & Company on North Front Street in Philadelphia. Trotter was a metals merchant who set up shop on the banks of the Delaware River in 1789, the year George Washington was elected to his first term as President.

Elfreth’s Alley in Old City Philadelphia

Elfreth’s Alley, our nation’s oldest residential street, dates back to the first days of the eighteenth century.

What makes the street special is not just that it preserves 32 examples of Georgian and Federal architecture, but that it maintains working-class housing stock of colonial Philadelphia, as opposed to most residential historic preservation, which is focused on wealthier homes or neighborhoods.

According to Wikipedia, in the decade that gave birth to the United States one-third of the houses in the alley were headed by women. Were the men at war? Or living at the nearby Man Full of Trouble tavern?

Big Summer Sky and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge

The Benjamin Franklin Bridge spanning the Delaware River on a beautiful day.

Suspension bridge lengths are measured from span to span, not by measuring the length of the road deck. When it opened on July 1, 1926 the Ben Franklin – then named the Delaware River Bridge – was the longest suspension bridge in the world, with a span length of 1,750 feet, topping the Bear Mountain Bridge in New York’s Hudson Highlands by 132 feet. Three years later the Ambassador Bridge connecting Detroit and Ontario took over the honors, which in turn was eclipsed by the George Washington Bridge in New York, a mammoth construction almost twice the length of any bridge that came before it.

According to Wikipedia the Ben Franklin, which connects downtown Philadelphia with Camden and the New Jersey suburbs beyond, is now the 64th-longest suspension bridge in the world, though was in the top 10 until 1957, the year the Walt Whitman Bridge was built, 250 feet longer and just a few miles to the south.

Here’s more information about the bridge.

Photo: Little Wagon

Seen on 3rd Street, between Elbow Lane and Chestnut Street.

Philadelphia’s Franklin Square

A beautiful morning for a walk through Franklin Square.

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