{"id":20295,"date":"2016-01-20T07:44:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T12:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=20295"},"modified":"2016-01-20T07:44:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T12:44:50","slug":"walking-west-on-locust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/01\/20\/walking-west-on-locust\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking West on Locust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Walking West on Locust\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/24122788949\/in\/album-72157648601368080\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1474\/24122788949_ac6604521e_z.jpg?resize=640%2C389&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Walking West on Locust\" width=\"640\" height=\"389\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s another shot of the corner of Broad &amp; Locust shot by the fabulous <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/77967494@N08\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tina Garceau<\/a><\/em> back at the dawn of the 1980s. It seems she liked shooting at this particular corner which is about a block from where the <em>Philadelphia College of Art<\/em> was once situated.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Notice the <em>Eagle II<\/em> in the background which served food and libations 24 hours a day. (I always wondered if there was an <em>Eagle I<\/em> and where it was located.) Also notice<em> Andrew&#8217;s Discount<\/em> on the corner which has been a restaurant now for a few decades. I&#8217;ve heard that the whole corner is slated for demolition to be replaced by something considerably less interesting.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another shot of the corner of Broad &amp; Locust shot by the fabulous Tina Garceau back at the dawn of the 1980s. It seems she liked shooting at this particular corner which is about a block from where the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/01\/20\/walking-west-on-locust\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,104,2093,3340],"tags":[33,446,158,1137,354,3669,137,118,6,336],"class_list":["post-20295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-philadelphia","category-photography-2","category-the-photo-elective","tag-1980s","tag-446","tag-analog","tag-broad-street","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-college-of-art","tag-photography","tag-tina-garceau","tag-vintage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5hl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18101,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/02\/03\/an-afternoon-in-1981\/","url_meta":{"origin":20295,"position":0},"title":"An Afternoon in 1981","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"February 3, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Here\u2019s another Photo Elective shot by Tina Garceau. 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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. 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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. 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