History The Gilded Mall Of Market Street: Gimbels Had It Where the great Gimbels department store once stood a parking lot sits today. With the recent rejection of a casino license for the site, it looks like it may stay that way for now. Shadowbat ...
History Tis The Season—For Wanamaker’s After years of change distorted and threatened the department store John Wanamaker perfected more than a century ago, Macy's has stabilized the store, preserving not only its success, but some of the landmarks that make ...
History Tracing The ‘Chinese Wall’ In Center City Center City's highrise corridor is, relative to Philadelphia's 17th century origins, very young. Shadowbat turns back pages and goes underground to find the Pennsylvania Railroad's "Chinese Wall" foundations between Broad Street and 30th Street ...
Photography At Broad & Arch, Views From A Still Forgotten Tower The 1929 Liberty Title & Trust tower--the only building on the block not to succumb to the wrecking ball--seems like a certain future hotel. But a year and a half after the opening of the ...
Preservation "Pantyhose Factory" School In Danger And On The Block What to do with Apex Hosiery, at Fifth and Master, the site of aggressive anti-unionism, a violent strike--and much later a protest against the School District for running a makeshift school inside? With calls for ...
Photography In The Silence Of Mt. Sinai Shadowbat takes us inside the empty corridors of Mt. Sinai Hospital, whose developers report some progress toward eventual ...
Architecture 80 Years Old, University Avenue Bridge Finds Itself At The Center Of The Action New contributor Shadowbat puts the focus on the Art Deco University Avenue Bridge, what could be a key to linking medical research facilities on both sides of the Schuylkill and with some better lighting and ...
