We’re on a roll finding movies filmed in Frankford. Not only was “Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of Woman” filmed in Frankford, Ginger Rogers repeatedly reminds her man friend “You’re the main line and I’m Griscom Street.” From IMDB:
Ginger Rogers, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her.
Not only is she from Philly, SHE’S FROM GRISCOM STREET! Unlike Pride of the Marines, we don’t really get any great shots of Frankford save for her going in to her father’s house in one shot below:
I went through Google’s Street View of Griscom Street and can’t find the exact house, but up and down it there are quite a few houses that look similar, especially down around Church Street. So I dunno, I’m thinking it’s the real Griscom Street but you never know with those Hollywood types.
Update: Via our facebook feed, we got a comment from Heather that said:
It was between Sellers and Unity… my Gram lived at 4442 Griscom. They probably only used the last 2 numbers for the houses back then. My Mom said it was diagonal from her house next to St Marks church lot, behind Bill’s meat market. It would have be one of the houses by where Dan Stoneback lived. Across from Cotter Co where the train came through…
This is what I knew about my family’s history in Frankford. My grandmother at one time lived on Plum Street and went to Saint Joachims, then to Frankford High School. My grandfather lived somewhere in East Frankford before he got married and my father grew up in Bridesburg. That’s it. So having been driving through East Frankford a lot to go see what’s going on in the factories, it got me thinking where my grandfather might have lived. If the house still stood it might be a cool pic, and something to share. So I emailed my father and said “Give me the addresses for all our relatives in Frankford”. Took him forever to get back to me, and when he finally did I realized why. My ancestors have lived in like 20 houses here! And it runs back 5 generations. Now in a perfect world I would take all the stuff I come across and sort it out and do a lot of digging and then turn it all into a perfectly edited narrative. But I have a day job and new wife so right now I’m just throwing up on the blog what he sent me back and we’ll call it a journey of discovery as time goes by and hopefully we find out more. Now when he says “my father”, he means his father and my grandfather. So when he says “my great grandfather” that makes the guy my great great grandfather. That’s five generations right?
