Yes, Old Nelson is a grocery store (that also prepares sandwiches) that I visited this morning as I was in that area. Outside, there's a sign with an emblem of a horse's head. Inside the store, there's a panel on the wall that explains the horse has something to do with Mt. Vernon in the late 18th Century.

There's also a locksmith store in the building.

Ironically it was also last month's "guess this picture" by the Preservation Alliance of Philadelphia. This morning after reading the email, it reminded me of the post. Here is what the alliance added below the picture.

JUNE'S MYSTERY PHOTO
Binder Building
29-41 S. 13th Street
Former home of the Binder Company hairdressers and makers of wigs, toupees and soaps. According to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places, Richard Binder, who commissioned the building in 1887, was one of the most successful hairdressers in 19th- and early 20th-century Philadelphia.

Wow, so the Gayborhood goes back that far ?




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