{"id":22345,"date":"2017-06-06T07:34:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T11:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=22345"},"modified":"2024-06-17T14:36:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T18:36:31","slug":"the-way-it-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/06\/06\/the-way-it-was\/","title":{"rendered":"The Way It Was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"22346\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/06\/06\/the-way-it-was\/pca-campus-map\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PCA-campus-map.jpg?fit=640%2C504&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,504\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Perfection 1660&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"PCA-campus-map\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PCA-campus-map.jpg?fit=640%2C504&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22346\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PCA-campus-map.jpg?resize=640%2C504&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PCA-campus-map.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PCA-campus-map.jpg?resize=300%2C236&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>This terrific map is from the 1982-83 Philadelphia College of Art catalog which I uncovered amid the clutter in my studio. I marveled at the magnificently clean graphic design done well before anybody had heard of <em>Illustrator, Freehand<\/em> or <em>CorelDraw. <\/em>This was all laid out by hand with a lot of care, a lot of patience and a lot of <em>X-Acto #11 blades.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Also of interest particularly to the members of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/arcopark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The ARCO Park Preservation Society<\/em><\/a> is the map&#8217;s legend below the graphic.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"22347\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/06\/06\/the-way-it-was\/pca-campus-map-legend\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PCA-campus-map-legend.jpg?fit=640%2C643&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,643\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Perfection 1660&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"PCA-campus-map-legend\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PCA-campus-map-legend.jpg?fit=640%2C643&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22347\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PCA-campus-map-legend.jpg?resize=640%2C643&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PCA-campus-map-legend.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PCA-campus-map-legend.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PCA-campus-map-legend.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>This turned out to be invaluable as far as settling arguments over which floor such-and-such a major was situated.<br \/>\n<a title=\"The Kimmel Center\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/6796313810\/in\/album-72157603900566867\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/8\/7180\/6796313810_2bcce73978_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Kimmel Center\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>The section of the map bordered by Delancey, 15th, Spruce and Broad Streets is <a href=\"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2010\/08\/09\/wrecking-ball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">all gone.<\/a> Sadly, our glorious ARCO Park along with a number of the buildings in the PCA map have been swallowed up by the massive <em>Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts<\/em>. The Kimmel Center is the new home of the <em>Philadelphia Orchestra<\/em> and occasionally <a href=\"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/07\/21\/gene-london\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it hosts flea markets.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This terrific map is from the 1982-83 Philadelphia College of Art catalog which I uncovered amid the clutter in my studio. I marveled at the magnificently clean graphic design done well before anybody had heard of Illustrator, Freehand or CorelDraw. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/06\/06\/the-way-it-was\/\">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_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":[31,120,104],"tags":[33,5,354,3669,137,480,336],"class_list":["post-22345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-curious-clutter","category-philadelphia","tag-1980s","tag-joe-williams","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-college-of-art","tag-usa","tag-vintage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5Op","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22351,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/06\/09\/digital-clutter\/","url_meta":{"origin":22345,"position":0},"title":"Digital Clutter","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"June 9, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a followup to my earlier post about the art school formerly known as The Philadelphia College of Art. 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The paperback is the yearbook, but it\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\/2014\/10\/ED-pic.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ED-pic.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ED-pic.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ED-pic.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":38956,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/09\/18\/black-and-white-and-read-all-over\/","url_meta":{"origin":22345,"position":3},"title":"Black and White and Read All Over","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"September 18, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Newsstand in the vicinity of 15th and Locust circa 1981. 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