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100 unusual facts about Philadelphia


Albert Betz

He was the great uncle of the Author Alfred J. Betz from Philadelphia, and great nephew of Vladimir Alekseyevich Betz the discoverer of the pyramidal cell.

Alexis Gritchenko

Dr. Albert Barnes acquired seventeen Gritchenko's paintings for his collection, now The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.

Alfred Trower

Trower then transferred to London Rowing Club and in August 1876 Trower, together with Gulston, R H Labat, and J Rowell went to Philadelphia on the steam ship Wyoming to take part in the town's centennial regatta.

Animal Soup

It surfaced when Simon Townshend was in the studio in Philadelphia, and producer Andy Kravitz asked him to sing something he hated.

Arkadelphia, Alabama

Some believe it is a combination of "Ark-", the name of an early settlement in nearby Winston County, and "-adelphia", a pseudo-Greek combination meaning "brother-place," likely taken from Philadelphia.

Arthur Bisguier

After a poor performance in the U.S. Open in 1953, he entered the Philadelphia Candidates' Tournament for the U.S. Championship and came through with a first place finish and another over-2600 performance.

Arthur J. Audett

He died suddenly on March 23, 1921, at the Adelphia Hotel in Philadelphia, of "heart disease".

Bannered routes of U.S. Route 322

In 1964, the West Chester Bypass was completed around this Philadelphia suburb and the prior routing of US 322 became a business loop.

Benjamin Parkyn Richardson

He married Margaret Ethel Austin (1856–1928) of Clough Jordon, Tipperary, Ireland, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 3 October 1882.

Bernard Revel

Around this time, one of America's senior rabbis and president of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis, Rabbi Bernard Levinthal of Philadelphia, visited the yeshiva and, after discussing Talmudic topics with the new student, invited him to come to Philadelphia as the rabbi's secretary and assistant.

Boris Rosenthal

He then emigrated to America, where he played from 1913-1917 in Philadelphia, and then a year in New York's Yidishe kunst teater (Jewish art theater) and then in Boris Thomashevsky's National Theater and then Kessler's Second Avenue Theater and the Public Theater.

Boyd Robert Horsbrugh

During his tour he met, courted and married Elizabeth Mitchell of Philadelphia.

Buddhism in Kalmykia

The Šajin Lama (Supreme Lama) of the Kalmyks is Erdne Ombadykow, a Philadelphia-born man of Kalmykian origin who was brought up as a Buddhist monk in a Tibetan monastery in India from the age of seven and who was recognized by the Dalai Lama as the reincarnation of the Buddhist saint Telo Rinpoche.

Cape May Stage

In 2008, the theatre’s production of Arthur Miller’s “The Price” which starred Robert Prosky and his two sons, transferred to The Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, the nation’s oldest theatre, and then to Theatre J in Washington D.C. to be part of a national Miller celebration.

Cecil B. Moore Avenue

In West Philadelphia's Parkside community Columbia Avenue runs between North 51st and Lindenwood Streets; between North Peach and 54th Streets in Wynnefield; North 59th and 63rd Streets in Overbrook; and its final portion between Wynnewood Road and North 64th Street also in Overbrook.

Celia Logan

Celia Logan Connelly (born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 17, 1837; died New York City, New York, June 18, 1904) was an American actress, playwright, and writer, and a member of the Logan family of actors and writers.

Chris Bowers

Bowers was a member of the Pennsylvania State Democratic Committee, representing the 8th district of the Pennsylvania State Senate, and a former resident of Philadelphia.

Clarence Howard Clark, Jr.

He was an avid yachtman who was a member of the Corinthian Yacht Club of Philadelphia; the New York Yacht Club; and the Eastern Yacht Club and the Corinthian, both of Marblehead, Massachusetts.

Clarion, Utah

Brown organized the JACA in January 1910 and listed its primary office in Philadelphia's West Parkside neighborhood, with 250 members, branches in New York and Baltimore, and with the express purpose of, "Settling on farms and mutual aid".

Commonwealth Railways CB class railcar

The CB class railcar or Budd railcar are a type of diesel railcar built by Budd Company, Philadelphia for the Commonwealth Railways, Australia in 1951.

Darcy Richardson

Although a registered Democrat and elected Montgomery County precinct committeeman at the time, Richardson was nominated to run for the position of Pennsylvania Auditor General in 1980 on the Philadelphia-based Consumer Party's ballot line.

David Shrager

After graduating from the law school, he began his legal career at what became the Philadelphia law firm of Farage & Shrager.

Del Fontaine

From this point, Fontaine attracted a better class of fighter, beginning with his first fight outside Canada, travelling to Philadelphia in a win over experienced American Bobby Marriott.

Douve

Among those landing at the Douve was the unit known as the Filthy Thirteen, later the basis of the novel and film The Dirty Dozen, loosely inspired on the exploits of PFC Jack Agnew of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Edson Fessenden Gallaudet

From 1900 to 1903 he worked at William Cramp & Sons' Ship and Engine Building Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and then, in 1903, worked at the National Cash Register Company in Dayton, Ohio.

Eliza Potter

Upon marriage she moved to Philadelphia and gave birth to two mulatto children; however, she soon gave up the married life to go "roving".

Ellen Frankel

Dr. Frankel has also written libretti for two oratorios composed by Andrea Clearfield, Women of Valor and The Golem Psalms. The first was premiered in Los Angeles in 2002; the second in Philadelphia in 2006.

Fleury Mesplet

In 1774 he emigrated to Philadelphia; it is thought that he may have been persuaded to do so by Benjamin Franklin.

Forsyth Street

On the east side of the block from East Broadway to Canal Street, a number of so-called “Chinatown buses” (operated by different companies) start their routes to cities across the East Coast of the United States, including Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C..

Fox Chase Line

The line, opened on February 2, 1878, as the Philadelphia, Newtown and New York Railroad, was built to block the construction of the parallel National Railway, later home to the Reading Railroad's (RDG) Newark, New Jersey service.

Francis Ayer

Ayer taught in district schools and spent one year studying at the University of Rochester before moving to Philadelphia.

Frank R. Stockton

Born in Philadelphia in the year 1834, Stockton was the son of a prominent Methodist minister who discouraged him from a writing career.

Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions

The idea for the song was inspired by an old train depot in Stuart's home town of Philadelphia, Mississippi.

Happy Tears

The shooting schedule was completed in 2008 and included locations in and around Philadelphia including Prospect Park, Center City and Cabrini College.

Hayloft Hoedown

The program, one of the first on ABC, was televised from Town Hall in Center City.

Henry Auchey

Henry B. Auchy (1861–1922) was a businessman famous for, along with Chester Albright, creating the Philadelphia Toboggan Company (later renamed Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 21, 1904.

Henry Eyster Jacobs

He was then appointed professor of systematic theology in The Lutheran Theological Seminary in Mount Airy, where he also assumed the office of dean in 1894.

Huntington Wilson

Wilson retired from government service in 1913 and settled in Philadelphia.

Ida Pruitt

In 1918, she came back to the United States and studied social work in Boston and Philadelphia until hired by the Rockefeller Foundation in New York as head of the Department of Social Services at the Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) where she remained until 1938.

Israeli Film Festival of Philadelphia

The Israeli Film Festival of Philadelphia is a local film festival based in Philadelphia, PA.

James Claypoole

He married Rebecca White (ca 1721-1749) on May 24, 1742 at Christ Church, Philadelphia.

James Curtis Booth

James Curtis Booth (28 July 1810 – 21 March 1888) was a United States chemist who was the melter and refiner at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia for many years.

James F. Checchio

In 2004 Checchio earned a master's degree in business administration from La Salle University in Philadelphia.

James Skillen

He received a Bachelor of Divinity from the Westminster Theological Seminary, Chestnut Hill, outside Philadelphia.

John Bachmann

The one other known painting by Bachmann, a version of one of his views of Philadelphia, hangs in the Free Library of Philadelphia.

John Christopher Moller

He was born in Germany and emigrated to the Philadelphia in 1790 after spending almost 10 years in England and some time in New York.

John William Wallace

While librarian to the Law Association of Philadelphia, he compiled three volumes of decisions of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which sat in that city.

John William Weidemeyer

In 1841 he wrote a play entitled The Vagabonds, which was produced at the Franklin Theatre in New York City and the Arch Street Theatre in Philadelphia, and at one point he was preparing Cæsar and Cleopatra, an acting drama.

Joseph Fort Newton

At the invitation of the Diocese of Pennsylvania Bishop Thomas J. Garland, Newton entered the ministry of the Episcopal Church in September 1925, and came to the Memorial Church of St. Paul, Overbrook, Philadelphia, PA, as special minister.

Joseph Pennell

Born in Philadelphia, and first studied there, but like his compatriot and friend, James McNeill Whistler, he afterwards went to Europe and made his home in London.

King Britt

They came together to curate an evening of music for the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia to coincide with a Sun Ra exhibit, that was touring.

Leland B. Harrison

After his death in 1951, he was buried in the cemetery of the Church of St. James the Less in Philadelphia.

Leslie Desmangles

Professor Desmangles graduated from Eastern University in 1964 with a B.A. in Music, from Palmer Seminary in Philadelphia with an M. Div.

Lil' Kim: Countdown to Lockdown

The 6-part show followed Lil' Kim's last 14 days of freedom before she entered the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for a 366 day sentence.

Manayunk

Manayunk, Philadelphia, a neighborhood in the U.S. city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Manayunk Expressway

The road would head into Philadelphia and possibly follow the path of the Manayunk Canal.

Mariah Stewart

She and her husband now reside in Chester County, Philadelphia "in a century old Victorian country home" with their daughters and Golden Retrievers.

Mark Dobies

Mark Dobies (born April 3, 1959 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actor.

Marshall Earle Reid

He was born on 31 August 1887 in Philadelphia to Betsey Holmes Marshall and David Christopher Reid.

Martin Luther Stoever

In 1862 the presidency of Girard College, Philadelphia, was offered to him, and in 1869 the professorship of Latin in Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, but he declined both.

Matthew Petersen

In 2004, Petersen played a game for the United States against Australia in an exhibition match in Philadelphia, qualifying for the American side under the parent rule.

Matthew Savoca

Matthew Savoca (born June 16, 1982) is an American novelist, poet, and short story writer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Max Rosenthal

In 1847 he went to Paris, where he studied lithography, drawing, and painting with M. Thurwanger, with whom he came to Philadelphia in 1849, and completed his studies.

Mickey Goldmill

Some time after his retirement (in 1948), he opened a boxing gym in Philadelphia, Mighty Mick's Boxing, and began to train fighters.

Noel Alumit

Alumit's play Mr. and Mrs. La Questa Go Dancing was produced by Teatro Ng Tanan in San Francisco and also in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Boston, and Philadelphia.

O Little Town of Bethlehem

The text was written by Phillips Brooks (1835–1893), an Episcopal priest, Rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia.

Pearl Van Sciver

Pearl was born in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia in 1896, the only child of parents Arnold Aiman and Emma G. Rorer.

Pete Dexter

He began writing fiction after a life-changing 1981 incident in which a mob of locals in the neighborhood of Schuylkill, armed with baseball bats and upset by a recent column about a drug deal-gone-wrong murder, beat the writer severely.

Peter Stretch

Before coming to Philadelphia, he had acquired an intimate knowledge of the art from some of the finest clockmakers in England — Thomas Tompion, George Graham, and Daniel Quare.

Joseph, the youngest son of Peter, born in Philadelphia, 1709, was a founder of the Library Company of Philadelphia which was established through the influence of Benjamin Franklin in 1741.

Phil Jasner

Philip Mark "Phil" Jasner (March 24, 1942 – December 3, 2010) was an award-winning sports journalist in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Bridge No. 1

In 1838, the PW&B built the first permanent bridge here to complete the first direct rail link from Philadelphia to Wilmington, Delaware, and Baltimore, Maryland.

Prosper de Mestre

The next record of Prosper de Mestre is not in Martinique, but in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as his parents had moved; this is where he received his schooling.

Richard Harlan

Harlan was born in Philadelphia, to Joshua Harlan, a wealthy Quaker merchant, and his wife Sarah, one of their ten children.

Richard Penn Smith

His father was a well-known minister and his grandfather had been the first provost of the College of Philadelphia.

Richard Sprague

As First Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia Sprague run up a record of 69 homicide convictions out of 70 prosecutions.

Robert Coltman

He received his medical training at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and in 1881 began the practice of medicine.

Roy Allen

Roy Allen (1918–1991) was an American, born in the north Philadelphia neighborhood of Olney.

Roy Helton

He and his wife Anna Friend Watson and their sons Robert and Frank lived near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Rusty Stevens

Stevens was reported to have left the show in 1960 because his family moved from Burbank to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, although Barbara Billingsley, who played "June Cleaver" on the series, said in a TV Archive interview that Stevens was dropped because his overbearing mother caused grief for the producers of the series {TV Legends interview}

Samson Levy

Samson Levy was a prominent Jewish merchant in Philadelphia during the Colonial Period.

Sonora Ponceña

In the following years, the band also made presentations in Orlando, Jacksonville, Miami, Washington, Connecticut, Philadelphia, Chicago, New Jersey, Panamá, Perú, England, Switzerland and Italy.

Sportbike motorcycle drag racing

He has lived in the Philadelphia area since he was a child and started the love for racing when he was 13 years old.

St Patrick's Grammar School, Downpatrick

In the area of Performing Arts, the school has brought a number of productions to fruition over the years, the most recent being Philadelphia, Here I Come! and The Phantom of the Opera.

Stubbington

Details were found by Martin Wilson in the American Weekly Mercury, a Philadelphia newspaper dated 20 to 27 September 1733.

Sue Ball

Susan Gabrielle "Sue" Ball (born March 2, 1967 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actress.

Tanya Hamilton

Her first feature film was Night Catches Us, a portrayal of former Black Panthers reuniting in 1976 Philadelphia.

Taras Mychalewych

Mychalewych attended the School of Applied Arts in St. Paul, and graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

The National Society of the Colonial Dames in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

The headquarters of the NSCDA/PA is located on Latimer Street in Center City, Philadelphia.

Thomas G. Waites

Thomas G. Waites (born January 8, 1955) is an American actor and acting instructor born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Thomas R. Kline

Defendants included the City of Philadelphia and its Department of Human Services, which had sent the troubled youth to the facility.

He lives in Philadelphia and his firm, Kline & Specter, P.C., maintains offices in Philadelphia, Cherry Hill, NJ, and New York City.

Tunku Alif Hussein Saifuddin Al-Amin

He was educated at The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential (IAHP), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

U.S. Route 301

When built, the road, like Delaware Route 1 and I-95, will charge a toll to cover the costs of building the new bypass, which is heavily used by trucks between Philadelphia and the Washington, D.C. metro areas.

Variorum

(1959), The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, A Variorum Text, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

What A Summer

In January, What A Summer placed second in her first stakes race, the $25,000 Heirloom Stakes at the old Liberty Bell Race Track in Philadelphia.

William Biles

They went hence in a shallop to Upland, stopping at Takany (Tacony), a village of Swedes and Finns, where they drank good beer.

William J. Ciancaglini

Ciancaglini enrolled in Community College of Philadelphia from 1996 until 1998 before rejoining a full schedule at La Salle University for the Fall of 1998 semester.

While covering the issue for Philadelphia magazine, staff writer Jason Fagone "spoke to more than 30 sources" while preparing his article.

Wolf pack Pfadfinder

At 00:24 on 23 May, while en route from Halifax to Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, the unescorted 4,455 ton British merchant ship Zurichmoor was torpedoed and sunk by U-432 east of Philadelphia.


American Poetry Center

APC sponsored dozens of poetry readings in Philadelphia featuring personal appearances by such notable figures as Russia's Andrei Voznesensky, Noble Laureates Czeslaw Milosz and Derek Walcott and Canada’s Gaston Miron.

Angelina Weld Grimké

Both Angelina Weld Grimké and her great aunt Sarah Moore Grimké appear as main characters in Ain Gordon's 2013 play If She Stood, commissioned by the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia.

Arthur's Lady's Home Magazine

Arthur's Home Magazine (1852-ca.1898) or Ladies' Home Magazine was an American periodical published in Philadelphia by Timothy Shay Arthur.

Cadwalader Morris

After the war he had an iron furnace for several years at Birdsboro, Berks County, Pennsylvania, after which he returned to mercantile pursuits in Philadelphia.

Charles Brackett

His mother was Mary Emma Corliss, whose uncle, George Henry Corliss, built the Centennial Engine that powered the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.

Commerce Square

To break the deadlock, Philadelphia Plaza Associates filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Doc Cheatham

Cheatham played in Albert Wynn's band (and occasionally substituted for Armstrong at the Vendome Theater), and recorded on sax with Ma Rainey before moving to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1927, where he worked with the bands of Bobby Lee and Wilbur de Paris before moving to New York City the following year.

Electric Love Muffin

Electric Love Muffin was a Philadelphia-based hard rocking quartet of the late 1980s that spiked the melodic thrash-pop of The Replacements, Soul Asylum and other indie bands of the period with touches of country/western, classic rock and prog-rock.

Elisabeth Elliot

She has lived in Franconia, New Hampshire; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Moorestown, New Jersey.

Francis Howard, 5th Baron Howard of Effingham

On 23 June 1684, Lord Howard sailed from Virginia for Albany, New York with his daughter, Philadelphia, where he and New York Governor Thomas Dongan brokered a July peace treaty with the Iroquois.

Frank Schoonover

Born in Oxford, New Jersey, Schoonover studied under Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia and became part of what would be known as the Brandywine School.

George Molchan

Molchan was hired and was based in Chicago; the other additional Wienermobiles were based in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Madison, Wisconsin, the company's home.

Gil Saunders

The album garnered three Billboard R&B chart hits including "Today's Your Lucky Day," "Don't Give Me Up," and "I Really Love You." Saunders also co-lead with Harold on the track "What We Both Need (Is Love)" which was popular on local Philadelphia radio station WDAS-FM in Philadelphia.

Gregory Michael

At a young age, Michael was active in community theater, portraying lead characters in the musicals Blood Brothers, The Music Man, and Damn Yankees, which were performed at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

James A. Leonard

In 1861, Leonard visited Philadelphia, where he played a match against William Dwight, who later became a general in the Union Army.

James Jay

He was instrumental in obtaining the endowments for Benjamin Franklin's projected college (now the University of Pennsylvania) in Philadelphia (with William Smith, 1755) and King's (now Columbia) College, New York.

Jesse Ceci

He was also concertmaster of four major ballet companies—the Pennsylvania Ballet from Philadelphia, the New York City Center Ballet, the Harkness Ballet of New York and the National Ballet of Canada in Toronto where he did all of the solo work for Rudolf Nureyev.

John Tunnicliff

At Liverpool he purchased a vessel fully manned, and with a considerable number of passengers on board (several families of which we shall have occasion to notice in this work), he sailed again for Philadelphia, where he arrived in the summer of 1758.

Joseph Johnston Muir

He served in succession: the Baptist church in Oxford, New Jersey; the East Marion Baptist Church on Long Island; First Baptist Church of Ticonderoga, New York; McDougal Street Baptist Church, New York City; the Park Baptist Church in Port Richmond, New York on Staten Island; North Street Baptist Church, Philadelphia; the E Street or Third Baptist Church of Washington, D.C. and the Temple Baptist Church also in Washington.

Juliet Cariaga

She was named, along with Alexandria Karlsen as one of several women connected with Philadelphia businessman Andrew Yao, who was convicted of bankruptcy fraud, and later plead guilty to ten counts of fraud and money laundering for lying about and concealing gambling expenditures and extravagant gifts to former Playboy and Penthouse models.

Lewis Riggs

He also attended medical lectures given by Dr. Benjamin Rush at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1812.

Louis Ritman

He took a drawing class at Hull House, then attended the Art Institute’s school, the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, and briefly the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, then in 1909 moved to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the advice of Parker to continue his studies.

Lubin Manufacturing Company

Aided by French-born writer and poet Hugh Antoine d'Arcy, who served as the studio's publicity manager, in 1910 Siegmund Lubin built a state of the art studio on the corner of Indiana avenue and Twentieth Street in Philadelphia that became known as "Lubinville."

Mary Willing Byrd

Her father, Charles Willing, was the mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1748 to 1754, and her great-grandfather, Edward Shippen, was the second mayor of Philadelphia from 1701 to 1703.

Max Holden

In 1929 Maxwell retired from the stage and with the help of fellow magician, Lewis Davenport, opened a magic shop in Manhattan with later branches in Philadelphia and Boston.

National Lacrosse League

1998 Philadelphia Wings 2–0 Baltimore Thunder (Best of 3 Games Series)

Panic of 1796–97

The largest such scheme was created by the Boston merchant James Greenleaf and Philadelphia financiers Robert Morris and John Nicholson.

Paul Deanno

Previously, Paul worked as the Chief Meteorologist for WTVJ-TV (NBC6) in Miami, FL, and also worked as a meteorologist at KOMO-TV in Seattle, KYW-TV in Philadelphia, KENS in San Antonio, KREM (TV) in Spokane, and KDRV in Medford.

Republican National Convention

It was carried by an early version of the NBC Television Network, and consisted of flagship W2XBS (now WNBC) in New York City, W3XE (now KYW-TV) in Philadelphia and W2XB (now WRGB) in Schenectady/Albany.

Rick Shiomi

As a stage director, Shiomi has directed at the Asian American Theater Company in San Francisco, InterAct Theatre in Philadelphia, The Bloomington Civic Theatre in Minnesota, St. Paul's SteppingStone Theatre for Youth, and has helmed numerous productions for Mu Performing Arts, including two by David Henry Hwang, the play Yellow Face and Hwang's revisal of Flower Drum Song by Rogers and Hammerstein.

Robert Ball Hughes

After a short stay in New York, and then Philadelphia, he settled in Boston, where he produced busts of Washington Irving (1836) and Edward Livingston, and a large bronze of mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch for Mount Auburn Cemetery (1847).

Ronald G. Beckett

Following the initial work in the Cardiopulmonary Sciences laboratory, Beckett began to apply endoscopy in concert with radiography on the Max Uhle collection of mummies from Pachacamac Peru at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Saint Mary's Church, Hamilton Village

A former rector, The Rev. John Scott, was known for having performed an exorcism of the Philadelphia campaign headquarters of Richard Nixon, and was the founder of the Philadelphia Third Order Franciscans, a worldwide lay religious community.

Samuel Rowland Fisher

Fisher's father Joshua moved the family to Philadelphia in 1746 and established a home and large mercantile business at 110 S Front St., soon after starting the first packet line of ships to sail regularly between Philadelphia and London.

Storer Communications

Although the company had success in the Top 40 rock and roll format with WJBK in Detroit and WIBG "Wibbage" in Philadelphia, most of its radio stations, including WJW and WSPD, featured more conservative music formats, typically middle-of-the-road (MOR) or beautiful music.

The Best of The Davis Sisters

The Best of the Davis Sisters is a double LP/single CD album by the famous Philadelphia gospel group, released in 1978 on LP (see 1978 in music) and in 2001 on CD (see 2001 in music).

The Blum Store

The store was comparable in quality, style, and reputation to larger chains Bonwit Teller and Lord & Taylor and was one of the premier chains headquartered in Philadelphia, selling women's clothing and accessories and children's clothing.

The Correct Use of Soap

Two songs on the album make reference to elements of works by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, namely "Philadelphia" referring to 'Raskolnikov', the main character in Crime and Punishment, and "A Song from Under the Floorboards" of which the opening sentence is a paraphrase of the opening sentence in Notes from Underground'.

The Gallery at Market East

The downtown Philadelphia Greyhound bus terminal is immediately to the north, at 10th and Filbert Streets.

The Mysteries of Paris

Ned Buntline wrote The Mysteries and Miseries of New York in 1848, but the leading American writer in the genre was George Lippard whose best seller was The Quaker City, or The Monks of Monk Hall: a Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery and Crime (1844); he went on to found the paper The Quaker City as a vehicle for more of his mysteries and miseries.

The Shubert Organization

The company was reorganized in 1973, and as of 2008 owned or operated seventeen Broadway theaters in New York City, an off-Broadway theater — the Little Shubert — and the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia.

Thomas Preston Carpenter

At the breaking out of the American Civil War, he joined the Union League of Philadelphia, and gave his entire sympathies to the Union cause.

Westmount High School

Jeffrey Khaner, Principal Flutist, Philadelphia Orchestra, Flute Professor Juilliard School and Curtis Institute

William Millward

Millward was born in the old district of Northern Liberties in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

William Milnor

He engaged in mercantile pursuits in Philadelphia, and was elected as a Federalist to the Tenth and Eleventh Congresses.