{"id":35352,"date":"2020-11-18T07:45:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T12:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=35352"},"modified":"2020-11-18T07:45:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T12:45:31","slug":"the-corner-of-11th-and-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2020\/11\/18\/the-corner-of-11th-and-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"The Corner of 11th and Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Demolition of Giunta Brothers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/50614823498\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50614823498_77cd9a93db_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Demolition of Giunta Brothers\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Sadly gone.<\/p>\n<p><em>Giunta Brothers<\/em> was a Mom-and-Pop kitchenware shop that stood at 823 S 11th Street in South Philadelphia for decades offering kitchen gadgets that could not be found anywhere else.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Demolition of Giunta Brothers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/50615674392\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50615674392_c45c089b25_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Demolition of Giunta Brothers\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Back in 2004 I detailed the demolition of this former Philadelphia landmark with the first digital camera I owned which I acquired from the late, great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/phu_loi_1969-1970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daniel Love.<\/a> I recently came across these digital captures when I was powering up a couple of old computers and searching their hard drives for anything of interest.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Demolition of Giunta Brothers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/50615564031\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50615564031_c5370323f3_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Demolition of Giunta Brothers\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>I have an album of this series at my Flickr photo stream which can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/albums\/72157716931196346\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>HERE.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly gone. Giunta Brothers was a Mom-and-Pop kitchenware shop that stood at 823 S 11th Street in South Philadelphia for decades offering kitchen gadgets that could not be found anywhere else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[829,104,2093,3809],"tags":[5018,154,5017,3669,2843],"class_list":["post-35352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italian-market","category-philadelphia","category-photography-2","category-south-philly-safari","tag-5018","tag-demolition","tag-giunta-brothers","tag-philadelphia","tag-south-philadelphia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-9cc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22297,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/05\/24\/up-on-the-roof-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":35352,"position":0},"title":"UP on the Roof","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"May 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"We have recently told you of the work on the Civil War-era train shed at Broad and Carpenter Streets in South Philadelphia. 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