Tag Archives: USA

Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters

Posted on June 10, 2016 by Tina Garceau

Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters was a play performed by fourth graders at GW Childs Elementary School at 16th and Wharton in South Philadelphia.

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Above South Street in 1991

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Joe_Williams

This is me gazing at Center City from the roof of an apartment on South Street I was living in at the time.

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Davy Jones’ Locker

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Joe_Williams

I came upon this fantastic memorial during a stroll through Fernwood Cemetery in Lansdowne, PA just outside of the Philadelphia city limits.

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The Edgar Allen Poe School

Posted on April 5, 2016 by Joe_Williams

I spotted this fabulous architectural ornament while on one of our South Philly Safaris.

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Deep End

Posted on April 3, 2016 by Joe_Williams
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East on Carpenter

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Joe_Williams

Walking home from the YMCA early in the morning.

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Holiday Fatigue

Posted on March 26, 2016 by Joe_Williams

Somewhere at the end of the ’80s I started dating a girl just after the holidays. I sketched out this little cartoon combining Christmas, Valentine’s Day and Easter for her as a gag greeting card.

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Gift wrap a bottle of Cutty

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Joe_Williams

Another photo of the Southeast corner of Broad and Spruce Streets shot from the building on the Northwest corner of that same intersection. The last one I posted here was in color and shot about a year after this one.

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Erin go ARRGGHH!

Posted on March 17, 2016 by Joe_Williams

On my way to Saint Rita’s on Broad Street this past Sunday I was dismayed to find what looked like the remains of a Saint Patrick’s Pub Crawl that went very badly.

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