{"id":392,"date":"2011-04-08T08:05:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T16:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/?p=392"},"modified":"2011-04-08T08:05:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T16:05:39","slug":"philadelphia-and-vicinity-november-26-28-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/2011\/04\/08\/philadelphia-and-vicinity-november-26-28-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia And Vicinity, November 26-28, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/pennsylvania\/chestercounty\/downingtown\/victory\/index.htm\">Victory Brewing Company<\/a> in Downingtown, which is making some of the best beer in the region (including Brooklyn Brewery? Maybe!):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/pennsylvania\/chestercounty\/downingtown\/victory\/0111-26-10.jpg\" alt=\"Victory Brewing Company, 420 Acorn Lane, Downingtown, Pennsylvania\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I read that they were starting to poke holes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/pennsylvania\/philadelphia\/south\/spectrum\/index.htm\">the Spectrum<\/a>, but when we went by there, it was just one lousy hole &#8212; one of those ceremonial jabs at a building&#8217;s facade. Not sure how much more progress they&#8217;ve made on demolishing the place:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/pennsylvania\/philadelphia\/south\/spectrum\/0711-27-10.jpg\" alt=\"The Spectrum, Sports Complex Parking Lot, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 27, 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/pennsylvania\/philadelphia\/south\/spectrum\/1011-27-10.jpg\" alt=\"The Spectrum, Sports Complex Parking Lot, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 27, 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>SEPTA sold the naming rights of the Broad Street subway line station at Pattison Avenue to AT&#038;T:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/pennsylvania\/philadelphia\/south\/attstation\/0111-27-10.jpg\" alt=\"AT&amp;T SEPTA Station, 3600 South Broad Street, South Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I might feel a little disappointed if I visited Philadelphia and saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/pennsylvania\/philadelphia\/centercity\/independencehall\/index.htm\">Independence Hall<\/a> with a trompe l&#8217;oeil top. Some enterprising artist should do something similar to a building like, say, the Chrysler Building &#8212; it&#8217;d be hilarious:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/pennsylvania\/philadelphia\/centercity\/independencehall\/0211-27-10.jpg\" alt=\"Independence Hall, Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 27, 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new National Museum of American Jewish History has opened just off of Independence Mall:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/pennsylvania\/philadelphia\/centercity\/nationalmuseumofamericanjewishhistory\/0411-27-10.jpg\" alt=\"National Museum of American Jewish History, 55 North 5th Street, Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 27, 2009\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/pennsylvania\/philadelphia\/west\/lancasteravenue\/index.htm\">Lancaster Avenue<\/a> in West Philadelphia:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/pennsylvania\/philadelphia\/west\/lancasteravenue\/0311-27-10.jpg\" alt=\"Lancaster Avenue at Spring Garden Street, West Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victory Brewing Company in Downingtown, which is making some of the best beer in the region (including Brooklyn Brewery? Maybe!): I read that they were starting to poke holes in the Spectrum, but when we went by there, it was just one lousy hole &#8212; one of those ceremonial jabs at a building&#8217;s facade. Not [&hellip;]<\/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-392","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\/392","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=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}