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I have legalised robbery. Called it a belief
I have run with the money. And hid like a theif
I have re-written history. With my armies and my crooks
Invented memories. I did burn all the books
M. Knopfler

SOUTH PHILADELPHIA

© John Mayer, Workshop of the World (Oliver Evans Press, 1990).


South Philadelphia comprises all of the city below South Street and is bounded by the Delaware River on the east and south and by the Schuylkill River on the west. The industrial development of South Philadelphia has been strongly tied to the waterfront from the earliest settlement period and later, the rail transportation networks that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century.

The South Philadelphia neighborhoods of Southwark, Moyamensing and Passyunk are some of the oldest districts of Philadelphia County, having been settled by Swedes in the seventeenth century. 1 These districts developed slowly along both the riverfront and early post roads but remained sparsely settled until the mid-1800s.

South Philadelphia's sparse population and marshy areas made it an appropriate site for slaughterhouses, leather works, and fertilizer and chemical companies whose noxious fumes were unwelcome in the center of the city. The natural clay in the soil also attracted brickyards to the area. Six of the nine brickmakers listed in McElroy's 1859 city directory were located in South Philadelphia, primarily along Grays Ferry Road. 2 Along the waterfront shipyards, ropewalks, and wharves spread southward along both rivers. The Federal Street Navy Yard, with two large ship building sheds, became one of the most familiar landmarks in the district. 3

The introduction of steam power in the early decades of the nineteenth-century stimulated the development of factories through out the district. With the emergence of railroads, Washington Avenue became a major east-west rail connection giving South Philadelphia manufacturers an efficient means of obtaining supplies and shipping their products. 4

Today, large scale operations dominate the waterfront, including the Philadelphia Naval Ship Yard, the Atlantic Refining Company, the Schuylkill and Delaware River Power Stations, and the Packer Avenue Terminal to name a few. The South Philadelphia Food Distribution Center on Pattison Avenue, built beginning in 1950, replaced the Dock Street Market and today plays a vital role in wholesale distribution of food for the region.

Although industry has declined dramatically in the district, the scale of South Philadelphia's industrial past is evident in the existing landscape. The abandoned factories that line Washington Avenue and the few remaining warehouses and piers along Delaware Avenue are reminders of South Philadelphia's important place in the industrial development of the city.

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I have legalised robbery. Called it a belief
I have run with the money. And hid like a theif
I have re-written history. With my armies and my crooks
Invented memories. I did burn all the books
M. Knopfler

Looks like Penn State moved the original link to the lecture. Could you post its title again so I can find it on the psu.edu site?

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"Jazz and blogging are both intimate, improvisational, and individual -- but also inherently collective. And the audience talks over both." --Andrew Sullivan, "Why I Blog," The Atlantic, November 2008

I think they killed it. The title was Old Towns and Districts Of Philadelphia by WILLIAM BUCKE CAMPBELL, A.M,. Why would they drop a link like that?

http://64.233.169.104/custom?q=cache...50352548224446

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I have legalised robbery. Called it a belief
I have run with the money. And hid like a theif
I have re-written history. With my armies and my crooks
Invented memories. I did burn all the books
M. Knopfler

It looks like the google-cached html copy is truncated. I've got the full pdf on my desktop. If anyone would like a copy, send me a PM w/ your email address.

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Old Towns and Districts Of Philadelphia

http://www.libraries.psu.edu/do/dbwh...2484_whole.pdf

THEY CHANGED THE LOCATION OF THIS FILE 3 TIMES IN THE LAST MONTH

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I have legalised robbery. Called it a belief
I have run with the money. And hid like a theif
I have re-written history. With my armies and my crooks
Invented memories. I did burn all the books
M. Knopfler

I may have asked on another thread but I don't know if I ever got an answer or if anyone knew, what is the name of the neighborhood between 11th and Broad and Market and Vine? Chinatown ends at 11th Street, but I've always just called it Chinatown-lite. I thought it was historically the Tenderloin, but the list says that was roughly around 9th and Race.

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Ban the Bans. It's a slippery slope between Idealism and Fascism.

I remember the Salvation Army soup kitchen at 6th and Vine.

I just wanted to put this somewhere on phillyblog.

Description of the Geology of
Philadelphia County
Pennsylvania


Philadelphia. - Area, 130 square miles; population in 1880, 847,170. A special map of the Philadelphia belt of the older and younger gneiss formations, first appearing at the surface at Morrisville, opposite to Trenton, N.J., and widening westward so as to cover most of Delaware county, will be found in this Hand Atlas, in the place of a map of Philadelphia alone. (See the description of Delaware and Montgomery counties already given.) The special feature of the geology of the city is its brick-clay and gravel beds, deposited at various levels; the oldest (Bryn Mawr gravel) at 400` A.T. a patch of which remains about Chestnut Hill; the less ancient sands and brick-clay of Nicetown and the terrace west of the Schuylkill on which the railroad to Media and West Chester is built, at 200` A.T.; the more recent gravel, sand, and brick-clay encountered in laying the foundations of the city houses, from 80 to 100` A.T. to below the river mud of the Neck. The abundance and excellence of the Delaware valley clay has conduced to the celebrity of the Philadelphia house-brick, and its almost universal use in the construction of its houses, a comparatively small number of public and private edifices being built of marble, New Red brownstone, or Delaware county serpentine. The red color of the brick, due to a constant particular percentage of iron in the clay, contrasts strongly with the yellow bricks manufactured from the Drift clay in other parts of America. As a curiosity it may deserve mention that the Assayers of the U.S. Mint found by calculation that there was enough disseminated gold in the bricks of the houses of the city to pay off the National debt; and they calculated that it would cost $10 to extract one dollar’s worth of the metal from the clay at the brick-yard.

http://www.libraries.psu.edu/emsl/gu...iladelphia.htm

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I have legalised robbery. Called it a belief
I have run with the money. And hid like a theif
I have re-written history. With my armies and my crooks
Invented memories. I did burn all the books
M. Knopfler

Hate to bump this but they changed the address to the report again.

THAT MAKES 4 TIMES THEY MOVED IT!


http://collection1.libraries.psu.edu...TR=19978&REC=1

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I have legalised robbery. Called it a belief
I have run with the money. And hid like a theif
I have re-written history. With my armies and my crooks
Invented memories. I did burn all the books
M. Knopfler