Coach McNic let us walk off (temporarily) with some really cool pics and mementos from McDevitt, including this program from East Falls’ Sports Association’s 5th Annual awards banquet, Sunday February 1st, 1981 — at Riverside [more…]
The lasting impression of the Creswell name on East Falls [more…]
Today, East Falls’ “commerce corridor” is Ridge and Midvale but it wasn’t that long ago when corner stores were the norm in our neighborhoods. [more…]
At a Grace Kelly brainstorming meeting today, lifelong local Carolyn Sutton showed us some really cool Hohenadel stuff and a cache of rare antique photos she’s been hunting down online. [more…]
Who hasn’t seen the Falls Bridge fishermen and winced at the thought of eating fish out of the Schuylkill? Are they even edible? Are they radioactive or full of PCBs or BPAs or WMDs or something…?? [more…]
“The repetition of serious or fatal accidents, by which men, women and children are crushed, decapitated, cut in two, or dismembered loses its effect by its frequency. The cases fall one by one, upon the public; we are told that, in the usual phrase – “the accident was inevitable and no blame is to be attached to the driver;” the survivors gather up the reeking remains of the victim – and the matter passes away and is forgotten.” [more…]
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