{"id":37827,"date":"2022-06-12T16:38:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T20:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=37827"},"modified":"2022-06-12T16:51:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T20:51:07","slug":"19th-chestnut-30-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/06\/12\/19th-chestnut-30-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"19th &#038; Chestnut 30 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Fake Marquee and Real Marquee\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/52140447982\/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\/52140447982_b2195990f3_z.jpg?resize=640%2C467&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Fake Marquee and Real Marquee\" width=\"640\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>30 Years ago, I started working at a place at 20th and Chestnut and about a block east of that, a portion of the movie <em>Philadelphia<\/em> was being shot. The character that Denzel Washington played in the movie had a law office across the street from Sam&#8217;s Place movie theater. For the sake of the shoot and with the possibility of being visible from Denzel&#8217;s window, fake movie titles were displayed on the theater&#8217;s marquee. Real movies were playing up the street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30 Years ago, I started working at a place at 20th and Chestnut and about a block east of that, a portion of the movie Philadelphia was being shot. The character that Denzel Washington played in the movie had a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/06\/12\/19th-chestnut-30-years-ago\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[31,104,2093],"tags":[3879,5357,5358,196,3669,2228],"class_list":["post-37827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-philadelphia","category-photography-2","tag-3879","tag-19th","tag-chestnut","tag-movie","tag-philadelphia","tag-theater"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-9Q7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18008,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/01\/14\/broad-chestnut-%e2%80%a2-the-photo-elective\/","url_meta":{"origin":37827,"position":0},"title":"Broad &#038; Chestnut \u2022 The Photo Elective","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"January 14, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's another Photo Elective shot by Tina Garceau. 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