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Murder in Franford

From the Daily News today reporting on a murder on Wednesday October 17th:

Shortly after 6:10 p.m., a 68-year-old man was stabbed in the chest at a halfway house in the 4400 block of Waln Street, East Frankford. He was pronounced dead a short time later.

Police identified him this morning as Robert Kitchen, who lived at the same address.

They weren’t able to release, however, the name of the 25-year-old man who was taken into custody. Police said both men were residents in the house and got into an argument in the living room.

This version from NBC10 is slightly different:

Police said a fatal stabbing was reported Wednesday night outside a home for mentally-challenged men in the Frankford section of the Philadelphia.

It looks like this was:

Northeast Community Center For Lth-Mental Retardtn – Branches, Adult Adjustment Program Philadelphia 19102Unity Waln Sts

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Home of the week

I was driving down Darrah Street a few days ago and as I was turning down Hawarth Street this place caught my eye I had to keep going but I eventually came back around and found this property on the corner.

It is more like some of the homes you see down in Society Hill and yet here it is in the heart of Frankford.

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Dyre and Griscom then and now

On one of my walking tours around the town I took a picture of one of the big old houses on Griscom Street. Then I remembered that somewhere I had an old picture showing the same house shortly after it was built. This was it a few days ago on a nice sunny morning:

This was how it appeared in about 1910. You can see that there were not many other houses in the neighborhood yet.


Somewhere along the way it has lost its magnificent wrap around porch that must have been a maintenance headache but otherwise looks very much as it did. A lot of history must have passed over that porch step in almost 100 years of living.