{"id":22305,"date":"2017-05-25T06:06:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T10:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=22305"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:24:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:24:37","slug":"arco-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/05\/25\/arco-park\/","title":{"rendered":"ARCO Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Today we present a\u00a0 fairly decent view of the way things were. This is ARCO Park<\/em> 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

From the 1982-83 Philadelphia College of Art Catalog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading →<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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],"tags":[33,354,3669,137,336],"class_list":["post-22305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-philadelphia","tag-1980s","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-college-of-art","tag-vintage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5NL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22345,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/06\/06\/the-way-it-was\/","url_meta":{"origin":22305,"position":0},"title":"The Way It Was","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"June 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"This terrific map is from the 1982-83 Philadelphia College of Art catalog which I uncovered amid the clutter in my studio. 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