{"id":18587,"date":"2015-04-21T07:13:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T11:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=18587"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:13:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:13:24","slug":"a-piece-of-musical-history-bites-the-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/04\/21\/a-piece-of-musical-history-bites-the-dust\/","title":{"rendered":"A Piece of Musical History Bites the Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/04\/21\/a-piece-of-musical-history-bites-the-dust\/img_6445\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18591\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18591\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/04\/21\/a-piece-of-musical-history-bites-the-dust\/img_6445\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_6445.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_6445\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_6445.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18591\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_6445.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"IMG_6445\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_6445.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_6445.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>A place familiar to people who attended the Philadelphia College of Art is gone as well.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"jetpack-slideshow-noscript robots-nocontent\">This slideshow requires JavaScript.<\/p><div id=\"gallery-18587-1-slideshow\" class=\"jetpack-slideshow-window jetpack-slideshow jetpack-slideshow-black\" data-trans=\"fade\" data-autostart=\"1\" data-gallery=\"[{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/willceau.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/04\\\/IMG_64391.jpg?fit=640%2C480\\u0026ssl=1&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;18593&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;IMG_6439&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Broad and Spruce Streets&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/willceau.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/04\\\/IMG_6448.jpg?fit=640%2C480\\u0026ssl=1&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;18592&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;IMG_6448&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Broad and Spruce Streets&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/willceau.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/04\\\/IMG_6445.jpg?fit=640%2C480\\u0026ssl=1&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;18591&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;IMG_6445&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;debris&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/willceau.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/04\\\/IMG_6444.jpg?fit=640%2C480\\u0026ssl=1&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;18590&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;IMG_6444&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Broad and Spruce Streets&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/willceau.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/04\\\/IMG_6441.jpg?fit=640%2C480\\u0026ssl=1&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;18589&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;IMG_6441&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Broad and Spruce Streets&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}]\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\"><\/div>\n<p>Demolition has started on the building at Broad and Spruce Streets that once housed <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philadelphia_International_Records\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philadelphia International Records<\/a> and, before that, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cameo-Parkway_Records\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cameo Parkway Records<\/a>. The locale was fairly important to the history of popular music so one would assume that some sort of preservation would have been attempted.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nxYIgGB8o7w?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Not a chance apparently. In it&#8217;s place will go another glass tower with luxury apartments stacked to the sky. Rumor has it that the building erected there will be the tallest in the state of Pennsylvania. I guess another skyscraper may be considered progress to the eternal underdog mentality of the city of Philadelphia, but I think <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/R._Lee_Ermey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">R Lee Ermey<\/a> put it best.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DPIU6UNgO_Y?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As far as PCA people are concerned, the building was diagonal from <em>Anderson Hall<\/em> or what is now known as <em>The Atlantic Building<\/em>. Utrecht was set up on the ground floor for years until it was absorbed by Dick Blick.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A place familiar to people who attended the Philadelphia College of Art is gone as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[104],"tags":[1137,56,354,3669,137,503,3513,3514],"class_list":["post-18587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philadelphia","tag-broad-street","tag-music","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-college-of-art","tag-rock","tag-soul","tag-tsop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-4PN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20447,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/03\/14\/above-broad-spruce-in-1983\/","url_meta":{"origin":18587,"position":0},"title":"Above Broad &#038; Spruce in 1983","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"March 14, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a photograph I shot from what was once Anderson Hall on the Northwest corner of Broad and Spruce which once housed The Philadelphia College of Art. This is probably the 7th floor where the illustration majors were situated. It was an old office building and the windows could\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blast from the Past&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blast from the Past","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/blast-from-the-past\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Above Broad & Spruce in 1983","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1453\/25136026644_78cdc4c9ce_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1453\/25136026644_78cdc4c9ce_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1453\/25136026644_78cdc4c9ce_z.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":20455,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/03\/16\/looking-west-from-broad-and-spruce\/","url_meta":{"origin":18587,"position":1},"title":"Looking West from Broad and Spruce","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"March 16, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Looking out the back or West side of the Atlantic Building which was known as Anderson Hall at the time and housed the Philadelphia College of Art. The 20 story skyscraper that once was a business office for the Atlantic Richfield Oil Company became The Philadelphia College of Art when\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blast from the Past&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blast from the Past","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/blast-from-the-past\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/schoolcatalog198081phil_bw-10.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/schoolcatalog198081phil_bw-10.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/schoolcatalog198081phil_bw-10.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":18305,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/03\/07\/broad-pine\/","url_meta":{"origin":18587,"position":2},"title":"Broad &#038; Pine","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"March 7, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Philadelphia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Philadelphia","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/philadelphia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Broad and Pine","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8626\/16117384033_6111c64fa3_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8626\/16117384033_6111c64fa3_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8626\/16117384033_6111c64fa3_z.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":18008,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/01\/14\/broad-chestnut-%e2%80%a2-the-photo-elective\/","url_meta":{"origin":18587,"position":3},"title":"Broad &#038; Chestnut \u2022 The Photo Elective","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"January 14, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's another Photo Elective shot by Tina Garceau. As I've said before, all sophomore students majoring in illustration at The Philadelphia College of Art were required to take a minor course in photography where the students would take and process black and white, 35mm images. I lived in South Jersey\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blast from the Past&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blast from the Past","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/blast-from-the-past\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Broad and Chestnut","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7574\/16266554231_482cc5a001_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7574\/16266554231_482cc5a001_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7574\/16266554231_482cc5a001_z.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":19504,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/08\/25\/across-the-street-from-philadelphia-national-bank\/","url_meta":{"origin":18587,"position":4},"title":"Across the street from Philadelphia National Bank","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"August 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Here\u2019s another Photo Elective shot by Tina Garceau. As I\u2019ve said before, all sophomore students majoring in illustration at The Philadelphia College of Art were required to take a minor course in photography where the students would take and process black and white, 35mm images. I lived in South Jersey\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Philadelphia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Philadelphia","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/philadelphia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Across the street from The Philadelphia National Bank","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/606\/20235838903_73bc18d73c_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/606\/20235838903_73bc18d73c_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/606\/20235838903_73bc18d73c_z.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":22305,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/05\/25\/arco-park\/","url_meta":{"origin":18587,"position":5},"title":"ARCO Park","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"May 25, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Today we present a\u00a0 fairly decent view of the way things were. This is ARCO Park circa late 1970s\/early 1980s. It sat on Broad Street between Spruce and Pine. It's all gone now -- swallowed up by the massive Kimmel Center for Performing Arts. 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