1952 Accident at Frankford Creek Project
Flashback 1952: Accident in Frankford Creek Project
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Next Week in Frankford
- Baseball and Softball Registration
When-Tue, March 10, 6:00pm – 7:30pmWhere-St. Joachim Church’s Pope John Paul II Room (map)Description-The Deni Playground Advisory Council will be holding Baseball and Softball Registration on Friday, March 7th and Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at St. Joachim Church’s Pope John Paul II Room from 6 – 7:30 pm. The in-house coed baseball league for ages 8-10 and the in-house coed t-ball team for ages 5-8 will cost $15. The 11-12 girl’s softball traveling team and an 11-12 and 13-14 boys baseball team will cost $30 a child. The 3rd child in a family will be free. The travel teams will be playing in the Northeast Peanut League. The cut-off date for the child’s age for traveling baseball is May 1st; girl’s softball is January 1st. All travel players are required to have a copy of their birth certificate. The Deni Baseball/Softball season will start at the end of March and run till the end of June.
- Historical Society of Frankford program
When-Tue, March 10, 7:30pm – 9:00pmWhere-1507 Orthodox St., Philadelphia, PA 19124 (map)Description-The Women’s Club of Frankford: 100 Year Legacy” presented by Patricia G. Coyne and Betty S. Coyne.
Frankford – Direction of a Greater Philadelphia
Joe Menkevich has found us a prize this time. For me, this beats the very cool Google Map overlay of old Frankford maps I posted a while back. Frankford – Direction of a Greater Philadelphia(be patient it’s a big pdf) tells the tale of Frankford in 1922 when the El was new. It’s subtitle says it all: Souvenir Booklet and Program published to commemorate the opening of the Frankford Elevated Railway. Inside it’s pages, besides the story of how the el came to be, are the ads for banks, printers, news papers, factories, stores etc. The story in these pages is so hard for me to imagine. It’s a story where Frankford(and Philadelphia) is filled with promise and the arguments among its citizens speak to how they want to spend their bright future, not how to defend a battered city. Check out the story on how the El came into being. It reads as a soap opera.
Browse through the pages, if you see anything noteworthy, leave us a comment pointing it out.
And check out page 31.
Although we are the Frankford Gazette, we are not THE Frankford Gazette. We think some corporate entity has rights to it , we’re just cyber squatting on the name. We’re just keeping the fire lit so to speak. And look at that slogan, “For a New Frankford and a Greater Northeast”. DAAAAMMN. I think I’m gonna have to steal that slogan.
[PDF] Frankford – Direction of a Greater Philadelphia (6.78 MB)
Photo Essay: I Used to Walk to School
A few weeks ago it was so warm I retraced my walk to high school from Penn and Harrison to North Catholic at Torresdale and Hunting Park.
below: Frankford Creek looking north on Frankford Ave
below: Frankford Creek looking south on Frankford Ave
below: Frankford Creek looking south on Kensington Ave
below: shopping cart in Frankford Creek at Kensington Ave
below: Steven is a wiener at the KFC/Taco Bell, corner of Hunting Park and Kensington Ave
Black History in Historic Frankford
This week in the Northeast Times is the second part in a 3 part series byDr. Harry C. Silcox and Jack McCarthy. It still reads like a good novel. Because it is an regular column, you have to scroll down the page to find it. This is the link.
Also this week is a feature story on Harry Silcox to go along with the series. Read that one here.
