{"id":260,"date":"2010-03-05T06:48:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T14:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/?p=260"},"modified":"2010-03-05T06:52:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T14:52:34","slug":"philadelphia_and_vicinity_fall-winter_2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/2010\/03\/05\/philadelphia_and_vicinity_fall-winter_2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia And Vicinity, Fall-Winter 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Catching up on various Philadelphia-area stuff from the end of 2009 . . .<\/p>\n

After shooing away skateboarders at LOVE Park<\/a>, the City gave them free reign under I-95 in FDR Park<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"FDR<\/p>\n

\"FDR<\/p>\n

The Dream Garden mosaic at the Curtis Center<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in Center City, the I.M. Pei-designed Society Hill Towers<\/a> (what’s with this guy anyway, getting props for these hulking monstrosities in the middle of low-slung neighborhoods? He’s also responsible for the Silver Towers in Greenwich Village, which was recently landmarked and similarly absurd . . .). The intriguing Rohm and Haas Building<\/a>. Foglietta Plaza<\/a>, somewhat forgotten between Society Hill and Penn’s Landing. Welcome Park<\/a>. Great meal at Jose Garces’ Amada Restaurant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In South Philadelphia, the Holiday Inn Stadium<\/a>, which is actually a lot bigger than it looks from the baseball stadium:<\/p>\n

\"Holiday<\/p>\n

(The Holiday Inn was featured on an episode of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Driving through Frankford<\/a> and Kensington<\/a> to visit Philadelphia Brewing Company<\/a> (they have tours on Saturday and the beer is highly recommended!). In Frankford, Womrath Park<\/a>, which Jen said was the site of various punk shows in the late 1990s (and which was also known as “Hooker Park” back then).<\/p>\n

In Port Richmond, Byrne’s Tavern<\/a> and Green Rock Tavern<\/a>, which has a JFA paisley skateboard (check out those rail and tail guards!) that must be 25 years old . . . wow:<\/p>\n

\"Green<\/p>\n

Jim’s Steaks<\/a> in Northeast Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

Main Street<\/a> and Dekalb Street<\/a> in Norristown over in Montgomery County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Catching up on various Philadelphia-area stuff from the end of 2009 . . . After shooing away skateboarders at LOVE Park, the City gave them free reign under I-95 in FDR Park: The Dream Garden mosaic at the Curtis Center: Elsewhere in Center City, the I.M. Pei-designed Society Hill Towers (what’s with this guy anyway, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out_of_town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}