Last week when I revealed the answers, I feel like I buried the lede and relegated our contest winners to the bottom of a long post that most folks probably lost interest in about 200 words in. So without further ado, the first person to email Masashi with the correct answers to this week’s contest was:

Greg Heller

Congratulations to Greg for, well, looking at stuff as he walks around the city. Other folks who apparently take notice of the urban environment around them include:

George Matysik
Christopher Reber
Jim Smiley
Michelle Atherton
Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg
Benjamin Ditzler
Ray Murphy

You get “centered” treatment but not the larger font reserved for our overall winner.  One of the above people gave us additional information about one of our objects. I’ll pass that along below with the answers.  Honorable mention for getting two of three goes to Anne Lynn.  Several others got at least one correct so we thank them for playing our game.

Answers, larger photos, more information and the map are below.

Anyone who prefers a little controversy with their cheesesteak should recognize this fast food homage to electricity consumption:

So what do you think the carbon footprint of this place is?

One of Philadelphia’s most popular cheesesteak places, at least for tourists, Geno’s at 9th and Passyunk was founded in 1966 by the Joey Vento. Vento is best known for injecting himself into several controversial issues including being in the vanguard of the English as the official language movement and allegedly taking on cyclists. Vento is also a common target of Philebrity’s sharpest barbs.

Geno’s was voted “Best of Philly” for Best Takeout in 2000 by some magazine that doesn’t seem to taste the food they select.

Next:

This is the one that I thought was going to give people some trouble and judging from the number of entries we got that left this one blank, it appears that it was even a difficult picture to supply a joke answer for.

Most people drive a little too fast on Spring Garden to notice this one.

“Cubus Assemblage” by Theodore Miller (1972) at 5th and Spring Garden.

Destination: Maternity Corporation, formerly known as Mothers Work, Inc., is a Philadelphia based company for maternity apparels. The company has several maternity brands such as A Pea in the Pod, Motherhood Maternity, Future Trust, and Destination Maternity along with one exclusive brand Oh Baby by Motherhood. It also has opened Edamame Maternity Spas in the states of NY, NJ, MA, AZ, and NC.

Reader George Matysik says that cubes represent 9 months of maternity. Thanks for the tip!

Finally:

This face haunted my nightmares in high school since I was never particularly fond of the five and eight mile runs that I had to do for rowing.

Slowest rower ever! But without oar blades, can you blame him?

“John B Kelly” by Harry Rosin (1965) on Kelly Drive just above the Columbia Avenue railroad bridge.

The mighty river Schuylkill is where Kelly learned his sport and is now the site of The Dad Vail Regatta, the biggest intercollegiate rowing contest in the USA, which takes place annually, the Stotesbury Regatta, North America’s largest high school rowing regatta and the Bayada Regatta, featuring disabled rowers from around the world.  Most famously, Kelly’s application to the prestigious Henley Royal Regatta was rejected in part because he had done manual labor as a bricklayer. This was despite Kelly’s status as one of the giants of the sport who had won six national titles to that point and was working on a 126-race winning streak. (Wikipedia)

Kelly bounced back from the snub by going on to win three Olympic golds in the 1920 and 1924 Games. To show just how important Henley was compared to the relatively novel Olympic games, it seems that Kelly was planning on rowing Henley and skipping the Olympics until his application was rejected.

Of course, his daughter was Grace Kelly, who would go on to be the Princess of Monaco.  The Kelly house is in East Falls and Kelly Drive bears the name of Philadelphia’s most famous rower. (Edited to add: Clarification from reader George Birds: “…[Kelly Drive] was actually named for John Kelly’s son, John Kelly, Jr., a Philadelphia councilman and former Olympic rower who died of a heart attack while on an exercise run in 1985.” My apologies for the misleading and incomplete language and thanks to George for the clarification.)

Congrats and thanks to all of our participants.  Tune in Monday for our final set of pictures for this round of the game.