In the three years that we have been publishing the Frankford Gazette I have been all over the neighborhood.  I found places I had never seen and looked again at places that I had never really stopped to look at before.  We ran a series on the home of the week and we took 100 pictures of what we thought were some of the best homes in Frankford/Northwood.  It was fun to find them and enlightening at the same time.

Some of those pictures had to be cropped very carefully because it was not all that unusual to find one beautiful house among the ruins of a block.  It was great training in the powers of observation.  I learned that we will often not look beyond our perception.  If I am driving down the street and most of the houses or poorly kept, my brain will not let my eyes see the beauty that might be hidden in plain sight.

The video below is not one of those situations.  During my hunt for the house of the week, I could easily have used almost every house on this block.   For some of us, this is what Frankford looked like when we grew up.  In fact, I really don’t think it looked this good.  It’s about two and a half minutes and is silent.  There will be more about this area in future posts.

If anybody recognizes it, feel free to post a comment.

We’re still on the 1000 block of Wakeling Street this week on the West side of Frankford Avenue.  Next week we’ll be over on the East side.

This week we’re still on the West side of Frankford Avenue in the 1000 block Wakeling Street.  It was a beautiful fall day as you can see.  This is really a very nice block.

We’re over on the West side of Frankford Avenue this week in the 1200 block of Haworth Street.  We’ve been on this block before.

We’re still on the West side of Frankford Avenue, this week in the 5400 block of Large Street.  This is a nice example of how these row homes can really stand out.  Well maintained and decorated for the season.