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We are on the 1600 block of Wakeling Street. This block is lined with neat well cared for homes which makes it hard to pick one. Our featured home is on the corner which is a bigger challenge for the homeowner because of that situation. More area to collect debris and more windows and paint to maintain. Still these folks do a great job of taking care of this house.
To view the slide show of all the homes of he week follow this link.
Update on construction at Castor and Cayuga. As you can see the houses on Cayuga are moving right along. 
Some of the houses are fully framed outside. House wrap going up as fast as possible and some roofing is finished. One pair has windows going in today.
Wingohocking Street has been closed for a few days while they do road work. The slabs are poured on that side of the project but no framing so far has started.
Views of the rear of the properties from Wingohocking shows the road work ongoing.
You can see the entire slide show here.
The Norteast Times this week has another facinating (to me anyway) story on Northeast history. The subject is the William H. Sliker Photo and Arts Studio in Bridesburg. It is more personal to me because I grew up living on the opposite side of the street from the studio and remember the comings and goings of the studio very well.
The story is authored by Dr. Harry C. Silcox and Jack McCarthy of the Frankford Historical Society. It is thanks to Sliker that we have so many views of Frankford and the Northeast surviving today. These photographs were printed on postcards and offered for sale all throuthout the Northeast. Back in that day when the telephone was rare it was at all unusual for people to send postcards the way we might call someone today. To say, hey I got home ok or I’ll be coming to see you next month. Many of them for sale on ebay still have those interesting messages
This is a Sliker image of the old police station and fire house in Frankford. The fire house is now the Police Athletic League building. They were a bit casual about the captions for their pictures and wrote them on the original negative in india ink which when printed came out white on the print.
Read the entire story here.
The Historical Society of Frankford presented an evening with the Butch Ballard Trio last night. This was a fund raiser for the benefit of the Bhilding Renovation Project.
It’s not every day we get to spend that much time with a legend but well over 100 people were there last night to enjoy the wine and cheese, the music and an opportunity to get together for a great cause.
The Butch Ballard Trio last night was Butch on the drums, Sam Dockery on the piano and Dylan Taylor on the bass. Now if we could make this a monthly event we would be on to something. 
