2005.08.16 10:42
Big up your home urban conurbation
...you're probably right about the house you left now being worth a lot more. Just this past weekend my mother told me she decided to look through the real estate pages of the Sunday paper and she was amazed at the current prices of things. What scares me is that there is now a lot of Philadelphia that I can't afford anymore, so maybe I will be stuck living in the same house all my life.
...4th and South was the center of my universe exactly 20 years ago. My best friend at the time had this enormous crush on a jazz singing waitress at Copa, so rather than go there alone, he'd invite me to dinner like 5 out of 7 nights a week (and he did this for a few months), thus I got to the point where I had to begin making up my own burger combinations. Spent all of hurricane Gloria at Copa. Rita Margarita indeed!
...nice list, and thanks for including me. I'll add the Duchamp collection, Love Park, and too bad we lost the X-Games. Venturi's "latest favorite" building in Philadelphia is the church on the square close to the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge. Venturi told the friend I had pizza with this past Sunday to go see it. Venturi seems to only know it from train rides up to New York, so he told my friend it's around Allegheny Avenue. After my friend gave me Venturi's description, I told him where it really is. I myself haven't been there in 35 years years, but I'm pretty sure it's on or next to Unruh Street.
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