Sunday, June 30, 2019

Retail Grocers Association R G A - Triangle - Northeast Grocers - Inquirer 22 Apr 1913

Travist and the Pretzel Man's Daughter - Kensington Folk

Originally Posted by travist

I was born in Episciple Hospital,Lehigh Ave 6/13/1949. I remember Phila cop cars were red,street lights were gas,milk was delivered by horse/wagon..real milk,glass bottles with paper tops and the cream would float to the top,also you could get butter milk. Rag man would go up and down the street on horse/wagon,horseradish man would go up and down the street ginding fresh horseradish,people scrubbing their steps,washing the gutters down,pushing it down to the next guy till it ended up in the coalberts. That is also where we use to dig out balls (pimple balls,star balls,smooth balls). If you lived on a block that had porches,everybody had porch awnings and would sit out in the afternoon until it got dark. Remember walking from Ella St. at the age of 13 to Lehigh Ave.,catch a bus to Connie Mack Stadium,watch a twilight double header,come home and not be scarred to walk back to your house ( I would't do that today with a m16). Cops walked the beat all over the city. Back then,cops were well respected. They wouldn't think nothing of putting their foot in your a##. Candy stores on every other corner,a bar on the next corner,ice cream parlors on the next corner. Back then ladies could not sit in the taproom they had to sit in the backroom. Taprooms had footrails with running water. Fathers,Uncles,Aunts worked in the lace factories (Bromley,Quaker Lace),others worked at Philco.

In the summertime,the taprooms served crabs. Took a ride around the old neighborhood a few years ago,looked like a war zone. How things have changed.

I am Gene the Pretzel Mans Daughter.

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Thread: If you're from Kensington,where were you born & what year..what do you remember?

Coroner's Inquest - Joseph W. Smith - Death at Sixth and Girard - Girard Hall - Inquirer 31 March 1869

1895 Bromley Map - SW N Sixth St and Girard Ave.

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Saturday, June 29, 2019

Ontario Palace - Alma Theatre - Nonpariel Theatre - Bent 374 - Kensington Ave and Ontario / J St. - April 16, 1917 - Free Library of Phila Digital Collection

SW corner Kensington Ave and Ontario / J street - Ontario Palace aka Alma Theatre aka Nonpariel Theatre.

1916 Sanborn Insurance Maps

Future site of an ACME supermarket.

Inquirer 31 Aug 1919

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Friday, June 28, 2019

Mocking German Things Mummers Philadelphia - Ach Du Lieber "Fitzheimer Band" January 1, 1909 - 246-254 N Broad Street (pictured)

Library of Congress - Bain Collection

1925

Architectural point of reference. 1925 photo identifying Hahnemann Hospital Annex on left at 238-240 N. Broad St. - S/B 234-240 N. Broad St.

Building on right seen in 1909 Library of Congress image of "Fitzheimer's Band" - 242-248 N. Broad Street.

In L.O.C. image on right is image of a building sign "Gawthrop & Wister" selling "Elmore" automobiles. Image of 1908 Elmore below. Gawthrop & Wister's official addresss in business directories is at 244 N. Broad Street in the middle of the white building on right in 1925 photo, used as garage and sales office apparently by Gawthrop & Wister at the same time in 1909 photo. A separate office down N. Broad Street from garage with the capacity of 80 automobiles per the 1916 Sanborn Insurance Maps.

1908 Elmore Automobile Model 40

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Philadelphia Squares - DeSilver's Stranger's Guide 1830

Rand McNally Philadelphia 1898

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Thursday, June 27, 2019

First German Baptist Church / Poplar Movie Theatre - N. 6th and Poplar Streets

1962

1910 Bromley City Map

Motion Picture World, Vol.17, 1913

Half and half construction on items 1 and 3 above. Repurposement.

1916 Sanborn Insurance Maps

Inquirer 31 Aug 1919

1911

On above photo, on side of front of the building, brick fill in ghosts on old larger original church windows, different color mortar, reduced to smaller size.

Building non-extant. Torn down in 2018

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Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Amber Theatre - Frankford Ave and Amber Street - Circa 1917

1916 Sanborn Insurance Maps

Inquirer 31 Aug 1919

Fined $25 by the State's Censor board for exhibiting Episode 14 of Crimson Stain Mystery.

Saturday, June 22, 2019

Bio Sketch of "Dave Mellow" Frankford Yellow Jackets Program - 1926

"Dave" Mellow, F.A.A.
Director and Former Star
FORMER HALFBACK GOING STRONG AS DIRECTOR

Dave Mellow is serving his second year as a member of the Board. He is one of the old guards inasmuch as he was a member of the Yellow Jackets form 1912 to 1923. He missed being on the 1899 squad. Dave started as a lineman, but was later converted into a halfback. He was able to take plenty of punishment and held his own with the best of them. Last year Mellow was a member of the Managing Committee and this year his advise is sought many times when the question of plays and players arises. Dave's working line is coal, he being connected with the old established firm of William B. Horrocks and Company.

( Above from a 1926 season program, courtesy of Mike Moran, author of the

Hap Moran and the Early Years of the National Football League web page. )

Mike is the son of Hap Moran btw.

Many thanks for sending this in response to this Philly and Stuff blog article.