Category: Miscellaneous

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Weekly spotlight on homes

A new feature this week is our spotlight on a particular house in Frankford. As you walk around the town you cannot help but be impressed by the huge houses you see on some of our streets. Many of them have been converted to various uses and some have unfortunately fallen into disrepair.
However Frankford is filled with well kept houses of modest size and that is what this feature is about.

So today the spotlight is on this house in the 1600 block of Wakeling Street. It catches your eye because of the neat, well kept little garden in front of the porch but it is clearly cared for and is still being undergoing some painting.
Every week for the next year or so we will put the spotlight on a new house. No houses that are for sale will be featured.

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Friends of Womrath park

The Friends of Womrath Park still needs a leader to keep the Friends group going and growing! The Philly Water Dept (PWD) has funding in the works to do a project in Womrath Park as part of the Frankford Creek Greenway project, and they need to have the group functioning so they can channel local input.

If you are interested in coming out for meetings, cleanups etc as soon as possible, they need you!

Please contact:
Janet Berstein at jamberstone@aol.com
or
Tracy ODrain at frankfordmainstmgr@yahoo.com

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Frankford 1901

I started this out by trying to find what the boundaries of Frankford really are. A news report this week identified the 2300 block of Orthodox Street as Frankford. When I grew up in Bridesburg in the 50s we considered that part of Bridesburg. So I started looking around and found that there are no official boundaries of Frankford because there is no official Frankford.

Frankford may be a zip code or a census tract or an idea in somebody’s mind but that is as close as we can get. Which brings us to this map. It is from the Gopsill’s 1901 map of Philadelphia. I like this map because it shows Frankford in the period before the development that changed the original town.

Most important thing to know is that the street lines that are shown as dashes are proposed. they were not built in 1901. Five points was what we now call Oxford Circle. Dark Run Lane is now Cheltenham Avenue. The intersection of Orthodox and Ditman (my great grandfather’s grocery) is there but Torresdale Avenue did not exist.

Click on the map to get a larger image. The Historical Society of Frankford has many others of much better quality. A new season of programs will begin in September.

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Mozaic tonight

The Victor North Trio will be performing tonight, August 25th., from 7PM – 11PM.

mozaic will be closed for vacation – 8/27 – 9/6

Happy Labor Day. Hail to the worker!

Come celebrate mozaic’s 1st. Anniversary on Saturday, September 8th.
The Butch Ballard Trio will be there from 7PM – 11PM. Mr. Ballard will be performing a very special drum solo to honor the recent passing of his dear friend Max Roach. It’s gonna be a blast.