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Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Marietta Heller DBA Adolph Heller - Aging A/P Legal Matters - NE 8th and Arch Sts. - 1890s




Atlantic Reporter Vol. 30, 1895

American Stationer 31 Dec 1891




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Monday, April 29, 2019

Adolph Heller's Company - 8th and Arch Sts. - Advertisement in NY Paper NY Herald 18 Jan 1891




Sunday, April 28, 2019

The Lost Art of Hanging out on a Street Corner - Philly Style



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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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N E Corner 8th and Arch Streets - 1840s - 1890s - 1915 - 1959 - 2018

Saturday, April 27, 2019

NE 8th and Arch Sts. - 138 N 8th St. - 735 Arch St. - 1903 - 1915 - 1959


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Five Alarm Fire - Fire in top floors of 733 Arch Street spreads to top floor of 735 Arch Street - Inquirer 24 July 1930


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Thursday, April 25, 2019

Evans Drug Store - Eighth and Arch Sts. - Circa 1905





Evans Drug Store - FLP Digital Collections






Bulletin of Pharmacy - Vol. 17, 1903






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George B Evans - 1106 Chestnut Street Drug Store - Bulletin of Pharmacy Vol 17, 1903


















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George B Evans 1857-1933 - Drug Store Marketing Innovator



Evans's (Iconic) Drug Store - 8th and Arch
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Bulletin of Pharmacy Vol. 17, 1903












Telephone News 1913 - Showing one of Evan's Market Street Stores.



Inquirer 28 Feb 1919





1911 - Showing Evans's 1221 Market Street Store





Printers Ink 29 June 1904



Inquirer 21 Sept 1933




Inquirer 20 Sept 1933 - Death Notice

Pharmaceutical Era, February 1914



- Of note, the death of George B. Evans Jr. in a plane crash during Training at the Naval Air Training Station in Miami in 1918 is perhaps one of the reasons why the Evans's Drug Store brand did not survive to become a 21st century brand like Walgreen's etc. 


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Sunday, April 21, 2019

Fascist Taliban American Left Purifies the Party - Tosses Kate Smith Onto The Trash Heap of History





Winston Smith in 1984 did not disappear in the middle of the night as fast as Kate Smith's statue did outside of Wells Fargo (we cheat everyone on an equal basis) Sports Arena in South Philly. Where the Flyers Hockey team used to win with her record of God Bless America. Will they win now?

The NY Jankees baseball team banned Kate's God Bless America from the seventh inning stretch. All because of some dated racist today words that she recorded on records in the early 1930s even before Hitler was a twinkle in Fred Trump's eye.

Is Frank Rizzo still downtown or did they ship him to South Philly and send him to live with the fishes off a pier at the Navy Yard.

This is bullshit.

This political correctness of the left that is begging Trump to win in 2020 after it purifies the party of all old white people who they are not throwing under the bus while they were alive but dumping their statues into the back of pickups headed to the junk yard to cash in on the current price of scrap metal.

This sucks.

Who's next in the left's witch hunt for political purity???

Kate Smith - Paul Robeson sang this song and did not find it offensive. If anyone could complain about being a political prisoner in the United States for his political point of view, it was Paul Robeson, whose was banned from traveling abroad after the State Department withdrew his passport for a couple of years in the last 1950s.

That's Why Darkies Were Born - Lyrics:


Someone had to pick the cotton,
Someone had to pick the corn,
Someone had to slave and be able to sing,
That's why darkies were born;
Someone had to laugh at trouble,
Though he was tired and worn,
Had to be contented with any old thing,
That's why darkies were born;

Sing, sing, sing when you're weary and
Sing when you're blue,
Sing, sing, that's what you taught
All the


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Schoenhut Harrowgate Toy Factory - 2046 Castor Ave - Toy Pianos and Village Buildings for Model Trains




Most of what collectors call collectible about the old Schoenhut Toys came out of the Fishtown factory at E Hagert (Adams) and Sepviva. There was a life after death so to speak in a more slimmed down operation and product line coming out of its Harrowgate Factory, run by relatives, going back to the original founder, and surviving in the marketplace at least into the 1970s after the demise of the parent entity in Fishtown in the mid 1930s.

Inquirer 3 May 1936


Playthings - June 1938


The popular toy piano survived everything and was a popular toy to receive in Philly Homes at Xmas. 

Photo Credit: John Rowe



The Model Train Village for kids lucky enough to afford $35 Lionel Trains Sets in 1940 echoes back to the Big Top backgrounds for wooden toys etc. 


Model Builder February 1940







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* Of note - top left corner railway station second photo, a close likeness of old Frankford Junction station house, located two blocks from Harrowgate factory. 

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