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Citizens Savings & Loan-19th & South Street..Major Wright
1940’s Black Saving & Loan …..Philadelphia
Carver Savings & Loan…Berean Savings & Loan
MID 1900 CENTURY WOODEN BOAT BUILDING, THE CHANGE TO LARGER MORE STURDY VESELS THAT COULD STAND UP TO THE HARSH LAKE ENVIRONMENT.
DesignPhiladelphia, founded in 2005 by Hilary Jay and Jamer Hunt, is the oldest and first American design festival, and a model for others across the country. DesignPhiladelphia establishes Philadelphia as a hub for design excellence. The inititiative supports economic opportunities for local designers, and demonstrates to the public the impact of design on our everyday lives. For more information, contact me.
The 1918 influenza epidemic
There is a timeline of Philadelphia I just discovered. https://www.ushistory.org/Philadelphia/timeline/#google_vignette
Likely, I came to it late. Anyway, it is good in some respects but at least its earliest 17th and 18th century dates of events are woefully inadequate (not to mention the 1753 change of calendar thing).
This might be good for someone to do in a scholarly way.
I’m writing about the Quaker Exile of 1777-78, so that at least must be added.
Philadelphia labor priest and labor arbitrator Father Dennis Comey, S. J. organized a new labor school at St. Joseph’s University. Comey was active with organized labor at the city’s shipyards and docks since the mid-1930s and earned great respect for his impartiality in settling difficult labor issues. The school blended Catholic social teaching with practical classes for workers to know their rights. Eventually the school combined labor-management programs.
Old City Arts a group of artists in Old City who pioneered large site specific interdisciplinary and collaborative works and work in new performance genres, the first in Philadelphia…