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Friday, July 21, 2017

2nd and Market - SW - 1952



2nd and Market Streets - SE - 1952


2nd Street Market - Pine St to South St. - April 6, 1927 - 182nd Anniversary Celebration


528 S 2nd Street - 1960


Crowley Butcher Stall - 2nd Street Market - 2nd and Pine - 1914 - 1927






2nd Street Market Interior - 1914



Market House - 2nd Street above Brown Street - 1914


Market House - 2nd Street above Fairmount Ave - 1914



2nd Street Market - s 2nd and Bainbridge - Meat stall - 1935



Monday, July 17, 2017

5700 Tacony Street - 1951







This photo of a post-civil war house circa 1870s with a Mansard Roof reminds me of my uncle's house, and my grandparents before that, that used to exist on the 5300 block of Tacony St. across from the old arsenal, before it was condemned, torn down around 1961 and is now under the elevated road of I-95. 

My uncle's house was of the same design and approximate size with the whole structure but being half of a double with this design in the photo. A lot of houses in those days got built by the same craftsmen in same neighborhoods etc. Not all the houses in the 5300 block were the same but mostly simple wooden frame houses and also doubles. My uncle's may or may not have been brick covered as it was covered in those horrible old light brown faux brick design asbestos singles siding btw. 

Wonder if they carted away the houses or just used the debris as part of land fill under the highway?


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S 12th Street and Fitzwater - 1908





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Surfacing Broad Street Bridge at Callowhill - 1898





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