Originally Posted by lee

Here's a picture from the 1930s of the triangle and fountain. http://www.phillyhistory.org/PhotoAr...?ImageId=15252

You can see a beer sign on the left -- must have been Kelley's, the Grace forerunner.

I find the old pictures of the neighborhood striking for two reasons: They truely illustrate a vibrancy that I didn't quite understand before, and they show that the trash problems started many, many years ago.