Comments on: Reader Submission Results In Old Photo Of Awesome Castle On Griscom Street

By: Gil

Gil — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:52:16 +0000

In reference to the house at Griscom and Dyre Sts, George Sale was a Northeast Philly real estate developer. It was his house. He also built the apartment building at Griscom and Oxford ave to be a doctor’s hospital (clinic) with all of the modern amenities. He built a car barn (I forget where) to house the B buses , the first buses to transport people to up to Byberry farms for there were no means to get there. In those days, transportation dropped people off 2 miles from Byberry Farms. This info was taken from the scrapbooks at the Historical Society of Frankford, supplied to us by Debbie Klak.

By: Gil

Gil — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:12:09 +0000

At the time of the consolidation there were about 15 different Franklin Streets throughout the newly expanded city. Our Franklin may have been the last to have the name changed in 1913.

By: Scoats

Scoats — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:34:47 +0000

Franklin was probably renamed to Griscom sometime after the city/county consolidation. With the consoliation, the city had noncontinuous streets with the same name.

By: Gil

Gil — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:15:13 +0000

Now that is really a wrap around porch. My dentist had his office there in the 1970s.