philly

I have no idea what in the hell "pankin" is, but I'm pretty sure I wasn't doing it in this person's driveway. On the same day as the adventure to FDR Skatepark with Andi, we were in South Philly for the afternoon. According to her wrapup, we were between Moore and Snyder and 12th and 18th. I'm loosely defining South Philly as the area below Washington Ave. There is so much to explore down there; this is only a small slice of what's there on any given day.

Here's a shot of a very colorful house with a very colorful blue sky behind it on McKean and South Hicks Sts.

This is a look at the abandoned Francis Drexel Public School (est. 1888) at 16th and Moore Sts. The brickwork is very much intact, but the interior is gutted from what we could see through the large open windows of the upper floors. No idea what the fate of this building is.

That, no joke, is a Mummers doll. I've never seen one before. My mouth dropped as we walked by it on the 18xx block of Passyunk Ave. At first, I thought it was a doll with something behind it, but when I got closer, it was very much a Mummers doll in the storefront.

And to round it out, this shot of a religious statue with a nice shadow in the late afternoon sunlight. I took a bunch of photos and put 55 of them up in this flickr set.

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