Blogging is not as easy as it used to be, so apologies in advance for this inaugural post. The above photo is the view from our friend Debra's 18th floor apartment today with normal Phila weather. The closer building with the pillars is the back of 30th Street station where you can get trains to all points, including the airport which is only a few stops away. The bottom photo is the grand interior that also still has an ancient luggage carousel - the ancestor of airport baggage areas - with beautiful brass embellishments, long abandoned but still standing along a wall in a lonely dark hallway. A kind of time travel, like so much of this place where I was born but am now a tourist.
from a park bench in Rittenhouse Square.
the old Automat building
another park bench view from Rittenhouse with wacky juxtapositions of archtectural eras
an entrance to Washington Square near my grandparents' apartment at the Hopkinson House and around the corner from their watch shop
30th Street Station
Actually that’s not really normal Philly weather , it just seems like it should be … we have plenty of sunny days , I think memories of the past tend to take on a different palate than reality … I swear the world was sepia toned before my birth
ReplyDeleteI totally remember every day felt like a rainy sunday and sundays always featured howard cosell yelling at someone who was playing football in the rain and or snow
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