{"id":3151,"date":"2011-06-16T03:33:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T08:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=3151"},"modified":"2022-09-20T07:59:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T11:59:26","slug":"ghosts-of-philadelphias-past-bellevue-health-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/06\/16\/ghosts-of-philadelphias-past-bellevue-health-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghosts of Philadelphia’s Past – Bellevue Health Baths"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple years ago I was wandering around what’s known as Center City in Philadelphia when I took this picture.<\/p>\n

\"Drucker's<\/a>This sign is on the corner of Sansom and Juniper between 13th and Broad. I’ve been up and down this street and this area a million times, but I never noticed this sign.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It looks brand new, but I had a feeling it wasn’t. It was just really well made.<\/p>\n

Recently, Tina and I were going through our old art school negatives and she found this shot of 100 South Juniper Street.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I threw it on the scanner and did what I could with it. The negative had quite a curl to it which didn’t lend itself to scanning. If I had an oil mount setup and a fancier scanner, it would be a lot more crisp, but blown up, I could make out the lettering on the door.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It’s the health club, and it may have still been in operation back in 1981-82 when Tina shot this picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple years ago I was wandering around what’s known as Center City in Philadelphia when I took this picture. This sign is on the corner of Sansom and Juniper between 13th and Broad. 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