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Remembering Buck, One Year Later
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Remembering Buck, One Year Later

After a year of coping with the loss of the Buck Hosiery mill and two firefighters who died trying to put out the fire that brought it down, the city’s would was ripped open again over the weekend in Fabric Row. Theresa Stigale remembers Buck with these photos taken in that fire’s cleanup

When Rising Sun Caught Fire
History

When Rising Sun Caught Fire

With tomorrow’s grand opening of Hawthorne Community Park, we return there again, this time with Harry K, as he takes us on a personal journey to Rising Sun Baptist Church, reminding us of the church’s Greek roots, and of the 1994 disastrous fire

Jack of All Trades
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Jack of All Trades

This handsome and useful Fishtown fellow has done a little of everything: fire house, Grand Army of the Republic meeting hall, post office, Army-Navy surplus store–perhaps even a speakeasy and brothel–and home to Ampere Electric for the last 62 years

Not Your Ordinary Fire Plugs
History

Not Your Ordinary Fire Plugs

Harry K dips into one of his favorite subjects–Philadelphia’s high pressure fire system–and finds the iconic red fire plugs–emblem of innovation–disappearing


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