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The Way We Were: Dock Street, 1908

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It would be safe to assume that the Brain Drain was not going on at this point in time, Stephen Girard be damned. Image via Shorpy, but at the risk of stating the obvious, you could do this kind of thing all day at PhillyHistory.org.

This entry was posted on Friday, October 23rd, 2009 at 2:44 pm.

4 Responses to “The Way We Were: Dock Street, 1908”

  1. jrpettit Says:
    October 23rd, 2009 at 4:11 pm

    I kinda wish this festering mess was still there.

  2. ResIpsaLoquitur Says:
    October 23rd, 2009 at 4:30 pm

    Weird. I just spent about an hour searching for old Philly photos on Shorpy the other night. Those high-rez images are amazing.

    Check out this amazing shot of the 1925 Drexel Institute’s Girls’ Rifle Team taken down in DC: http://www.shorpy.com/node/5392?size=_original

  3. expat attack Says:
    October 23rd, 2009 at 5:21 pm

    @ResIpsaLoquitur

    Yikes!

  4. jburnside Says:
    October 24th, 2009 at 8:22 am

    beautiful images of Philadelphia when it was a city not a cesspool

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