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Broad Way: 1912
Philadelphia circa 1912. "Broad Street and City Hall tower." William Penn presiding over a profusion of hotels and theaters. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.
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Below is the same view from October of 2013.
Open your ears
On the left, the venerable Academy of Music (1855-57), home of the Philadelphia Orchestra literally from the start to the finish of the twentieth century. There you could hear Verdi's 'Il Trovatore' (in 1857), and later Stokowski, Rachmaninoff, Marian Anderson, Ormandy, and on and on. Martin Scorsese used it as a setting for 'The Age of Innocence'. Despite its name, the Academy was never a school. It's still elegantly present (photo below courtesy of yours truly) and still used, though the orchestra's main home now is the assertively modern Kimmel Center, one block south on Broad.
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