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Junction of Arch Street and N. 12th. Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1978
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English: The junction of Arch Street and N. 12th. Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1978. This image shows the junction before demolition for the Pennsylvania Convention Center, built from 1993. The current redeveloped junction is shown here on Google Street View from August 2021. Syd Kushner, a store at 1204 Arch Street, was a seller of ladies shoes, who also distributed by mail order. Also shown at the corner is the R. Page café and food outlet, and between Page and Kushner, the Denmark Book Shop, purveyor of adult and X-rated print and peep show movies. To the left of the camera and out of shot is Reading Terminal station. An observational piece in the Chicago Tribune in 1986, described a nun's walk through the Arch Street 1200 neighborhood that had traditionally attracted "doctors and lawyers and a lot of city officials". The nun was on the way to Kilner's Church Goods (est. 1888) at 1218 Arch Street and "a listing ship with a cargo of moral fiber, anchored in a sea of lust", a supplier of Catholic vestments, candles, holy cards, rosary beads, brass holders, and dashboard statues. This was a time of flux between a mid-1960's respectable neighborhood to a 1980s "squeezed by porn and pinched by crime" that "scares some people away", that included Doc's Leisure Time Therapeutic Sex Aid Products (the Home of Doc Johnson`s Love Potions), the Denmark Book Shop, "where two bits buys a peep show", helping to turn the area into a "cornucopia of cheap thrills, enticing creatures who even the Denmark Book Shop could do without", with "derelicts and bums", and "where you can have your fortune told, sell your blood and buy an inflatable mate". This is a darker rendered version of two available. Camera: Kodak Retinette 1B 135mm film viewfinder camera, using Kodak film stock. Software: optimized, perhaps cropped, with DxO PhotoLab 6 Elite, and possibly further optimized with Adobe Photoshop CS2, from an 88mm x 139mm commercially printed photograph scanned with Epson Perfection V800. Wikimedia at time of upload makes it difficult to immediately view the helpful category links where you can find images related to this one in a variety of ways; for these go to the bottom of the page. |
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Author | Acabashi |
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Credit/Provider | Acabashi |
Headline | Arch Street Philadelphia |
Source | own |
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City shown | Philadelphia |
Orientation | Normal |
Horizontal resolution | 1,200 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 1,200 dpi |
Software used | DxO PhotoLab 6.1 |
File change date and time | 09:35, 11 December 2022 |
Color space | sRGB |
Date metadata was last modified | 09:35, 11 December 2022 |
Rating (out of 5) | 0 |
Category | street photography |
Supplemental categories | Philadelphia |
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Type of item | street photography |
Country shown | USA |
Province or state shown | Pennsylvania |
Sublocation of city shown | Arch Street |
Categories:
- People of Philadelphia
- Black and white photographs of Philadelphia
- 20th-century photographs of Pennsylvania
- 1978 in Philadelphia
- Sidewalks in Pennsylvania
- Walking people in Pennsylvania
- Arch Street (Philadelphia)
- Street photography in Philadelphia
- 12th Street (Philadelphia)
- Shops in the United States photographed in 1978
- Road junctions in Pennsylvania
- Streetcorners in the United States
- Corner buildings in the United States