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Just searching Frankford on ebay let to this interesting treasure. It’s a 1 lb coffee tin can from our own Unity-Frankford Grocers. Here’s the link, it’s for sale for 30 bucks. This thing is just dieing to be used for change on my desk at work, but 30 is a little steep for me. Somebody buy and bring it home to Frankford.
[link] http://cgi.ebay.com/VIN-FRANKFORD-UNITY-1-LB-COFFEE-TIN-CAN-PHILA-PA-1950
Got an email from a reader who got photos of two separate incidents in an afternoon’s time span.
At 11:30 AM
This pic shows more than a half dozen cops brought by as many as eight cop cars at 11:30 a.m. They pulled up and began an argument with some men who were seated outside about getting a ticket for “it” being parked outside. The cops seemed to want the search whichever vehicle it was, but the men asked for a warrant which the cops didn’t produce. They hung around a while, while one cop asked one of the men if he had any “rock” on him, because the cop didn’t “want to arrest” the man again.
At 4:30 PM
The next two attached photos I took of another roundup at 4640 Penn Street at 4:30 today. One woman screamed at the group of six or more cops who eventually returned to their panel van — save for two who walked the premises before leaving — and drove off in less than 10 minutes.
I thought it so strange that two big rollouts of cops would come to different homes on the same block and, well, do absolutely nothing except get screamed at climb back into their vehicles and leave. Perhaps setting the stage? Feeling these people out? …Or just mistakes?
This is good stuff. If you have any pics of anything, send em in and I’ll post em: jim@frankfordgazette.com. Where are my citizen reporters of Frankford? I don’t want to be the only one.
They’ve begun posting on Craigslist pretty regularly.
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… …. …Raw space and studios in varied degrees of finish available from $0.50/ft
[link] http://globedyeworks.com
[link] http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/search/hhh?query=www.globedyeworks.com
Between the Frankford Creek and Cheltenham Ave, Roosevelt Boulevard and I95, there’s like 38 thousand residents. How hard can it be to get a couple hundred people together to yell at some politicians? That’s one half of one percent of our residents. I can’t believe I haven’t brought this up before, but I’m gonna start blogging on what happens elsewhere in the city when residents band together and challenge everything they see that has a negative impact on their neighborhoods. They’re called NIMBYs. Not In My Back Yard. And they can be very effective. The problem with that is, WE DON’T HAVE ANY. So when the city goes searching for places to dump problems, they come to us because we don’t put up a fight.
Such was the case in East Falls last night where the community met with Deleware Valley High School to discuss the new “kiddie prison” setting up shop in their neighborhood. Here’s some video. Brian Hickey reports in today’s metro that City Counsilman Curtis Jones Jr. is withdrawing his support for the school.
I’ll follow this one, and let you know how it turns out. Maybe we can take a clue from the East Falls community. Because if we can’t find 200 people in a neighborhood this big to show up for town hall meetings or civic association meetings or to even show they care, then we deserve every thing that gets dumped here.
Jason Roberts sent us some pics on his continued work down at the Globe Dye Works on the metal work for Silk City‘s Beer Garden.
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