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Noontime Nuggetz: Scenes From Kensington, 1982

This, then, is the Kensington we grew up with: A sweaty, humid place where it’s always overcast; where one mom is yelling at two dozen kids; where casual racism and sexism meets up with disdain for the police and everything else; where the hoagiemouth has more than a passing trace of the menacing; where pills are currency; where even the wisecracking-est wisecracker is hopelessly, miserably stuck in a place that is actually even more blown out than it knows. This is Kensington. And guess what: This will always be Kensington.

This entry was posted on Friday, October 26th, 2012 at 11:59 am.

  • Marty Funkhauser

    Am I the only person that finds this video incredible? I am grateful for the influx of transplants with new ideas that Philly has received in recent years, there is still a part of me that longs for the Philly of yesteryear. I don’t know what it is exactly, but as we continue to receive a swarms of transplants to our incredible city (something of which I am grateful for), I think we lose a little something along the way in our collective identity as Philadelphians. There are some things that newcomers will NEVER understand about this city and that’s not necessarily their fault. It just is.

    This video evoked some emotion within. Like you stated, there is something that has always been entirely F’ed about Philly, and perhaps it always will be. However, I wouldn’t have wanted to grow up anywhere else.