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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania recent comments:

  • Ford Motor Company/Botany 500 Building, John (guest) wrote 14 years ago:
    It was both. Older photos from the 1940s or earlier show a Ford marquee while more recent pictures from the 1970s have the Botany 500 sign.
  • Drexel University Main Building, Curtis Hall, and Randel Hall, Guest (guest) wrote 14 years ago:
    Very hard to navigate!!
  • The Battery at Penn Treaty Park, BNSF13 (guest) wrote 14 years ago:
    The Exelon Plant here closed around 1984 and the turbines were under Demolition
  • PECO Southwark Power Station (closed), BNSF 13 (guest) wrote 14 years ago:
    the powerr station died in 1996
  • PECO Richmond Generating Station Building, BNSF 13 (guest) wrote 14 years ago:
    The Real Philadelphia Power Company was built in 1925 and abandoned in 1985 Tru Story
  • Liddonfield Housing Project, Liddonfld (guest) wrote 14 years ago:
    It was a great place growing up there in the 1960-1980's. Great people. Wonderful experience.
  • 135-151 South 18th St., guachoninja (guest) wrote 14 years ago:
    Recently converted into the a.k.a. rittenhouse hotel
  • Budd Company Red Lion Plant Rail Spur (Abandoned), RDGCrusader1938 wrote 15 years ago:
    Many famous trains built By Budd left the factory over these tracks including: - All of the early Zephyr trainsets built for the CB&Q back in the mid thirties: some of the first streamlined trains ever built - The cars for Santa Fe's 1937 streamlined Super Chief - The cars for CB&Q's California Zephyr - The cars for the Reading Company's 1938 Crusader - The cars for Canadian Pacific's 1955 transcontinental streamliner The Canadian - The cars for the Chesapeake and Ohio's never run Chessie - The cars for the Wabash's Bluebird - The Boston and Maine's 1935 Flying Yankee trainset - also an early streamliner - The famous Budd Rail Diesel Car (RDC), used by countless railroads throughout the world And many more that I cannot name off the top of my head
  • SS United States (former site), MHibbs wrote 15 years ago:
    She may have been saved from the whims of NCL, but she's by no means safe from the scrappers torch yet. Be sure to visit the Conservancy's website!
  • Hooters (Former Site), MHibbs wrote 15 years ago:
    hahaha Gump
  • First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia, Florence Ann Roberts (guest) wrote 15 years ago:
    Philadelphia's First Unitarian Church was designed by architect Frank Furness. He had more than a professional link to his client: his father, William Henry Furness, served for fifty years as the pastor of the church.
  • PSH Superintendents Complex, seafordian wrote 15 years ago:
    We be resurrected for historical layer
  • McPherson Square, northboy88 wrote 15 years ago:
    And before the library it was the Webster family home and farm, Stouton.(EdJJ)
  • 739 Earp Street, Bobak wrote 15 years ago:
    Cut out the whitewashing!
  • Cohocksink Playground, northboy88 wrote 15 years ago:
    not true ! that was Newt's in Fishtown.
  • Supreme Food Market, blf (guest) wrote 15 years ago:
    I agree. And the meats and prices are good. Clean store, good specials.
  • PRR 46th Street Yard, ACSmitty79 wrote 15 years ago:
    Now a Lowes, Shoprite, Planetfitness, AJ Wright and McDonalds
  • Luzerne Trolley Depot, GeeYoung wrote 15 years ago:
    This was also the car barn that served as the de facto strike headquarters during the 1944 transit strike.
  • Piers 3 and 5 North , sturmovik wrote 15 years ago:
    My friend remembers walking around here in the 1960's and all the crooked longshoremen would offer to sell him whatever high tech import good that had recently "fallen" out of the cargo net. The manual handling of cargo combined with organized crime imposed about a 20% shrinkage of the imported cargo. Of course when containerization came along it destroyed both the old port and the corrupt unions.
  • Reading Viaduct (Abandoned), jarmat1 wrote 15 years ago:
    The old Reading viaduct may in the future, transformed into a public recreation area.