Just spent three and a half hours snapping pictures all the way from the Naval Yard (alas, not inside it) to Center City. This weather is glorious. I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. Preferably after I finish my Sekrit Photographic Projekt.

Mary ministers to the Naval Yard. At the Stella Maris Convent. Bigler Street between Ninth and Tenth Streets, South Philadelphia.

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( Seventh Street, South Philly. Below Snyder Avenue, it's Little Phnom Penh. Above Snyder, it's Italian... only it's never that simple. )
(*) I haven't found any examples of this or any other name being applied to Seventh below Snyder, but Little Phnom Penh is a name used with pride for similar neighborhoods in other cities.

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( Photos east and west of Broad Street, South Philadelphia. Welcome to Broad Street Beautyland. )

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( All manner of roadside shrines. If one doesn't jump your engine, try another. )

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( Sacred, profane, what's the difference? )

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( Covered with stucco for decades, the Grand Theatre emerges into the light. )

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( Places of worship, Sixth and Seventh Streets, Philadelphia. )

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