Philly & Stuff: The Lost Art of Hanging out on a Street Corner

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This is a bit bizarre, perhaps off the wall, but I take some time to analyze some historical photos and I begin to realize what a lost art form standing on a street corner used to be before radio, TV, Highways and the Internet.

Do guys stand the same way at the mall these days?

Is it only in Philly that everyone used to hang out before air conditioning in summer and did they always have one hand on the hip in some nineteenth century body language, Philly and or European, thing?

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