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At Liberty Place, The Ghost Of Hot Jazz
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At Liberty Place, The Ghost Of Hot Jazz

Long before One Liberty Place leveled the area with sky-high apartments and upscale shopping, Ranstead Street used to belong to Billy Krechmer. His little jazz club burned with Swing and Dixieland brass for over 28 years. Music historian and archivist Jack McCarthy has the skinny on this long-lost gem

From A Corner of Center City, The Source Of Light
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From A Corner of Center City, The Source Of Light

John Vidumsky discovers the people and the places behind the birth of electric light in America–at the heart of it the inimitable John Wanamaker and a brilliant inventor named Charles Brush whose power station, the first in Philadelphia, is still in use today


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