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Mid-Century Philly: Broad, Ridge, Fairmount and the Divine Lorraine, 1954

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Historical Commission approves Wood Street redo; Race St. condos and Chestnut St. designations

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 Large cities began offering pensions to police officers and firefighters in the 1800s. In the photograph, police patrol marching outside Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, Pa. circa 1910. (Image courtesy of the Library of Congress)
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Romans, booty and sailors: all part of the history of pensions

Unfunded pensions have been around for thousands of years—even as far back as the Roman Republic. As we were reporting on the pr ...

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 Joe Tarsia, now retired, is shown standing at the mixing board in Philadelphia's Sigma Sound Studios in 2003. Sigma Sound, the source of the echoing, orchestral
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Sigma Sound building should have been a music history museum

Once again, Philadelphia fails to recognize its own history. When I saw the obituary in a ...

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 A Matchbox Superfast Series, '57 Chevy. It was released in 1983. (Bastiaan Slabbers/for NewsWorks)
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New Jersey’s Matchbox car museum is bigger than you might think

The Matchbox Road Museum showcases 50,000 pieces of Matchbox memorabilia, including the well-known miniature models, concept cars, one-of ...

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From Above: Franklin Square and Monument Plaza, 1926

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Rivers, industry and cars: a historian looks at river towns along lower Schuylkill

Historian and blogger Michael Tolle recently moved away from his home of 36 years near the Schuylkill River valley, but that doesn’t me ...

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Historical Commission calls for 500 Walnut design approval

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Congregation Rodeph Shalom is set to become a beacon on North Broad

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Historical Commission approves Warner Bros. building redo; 205 Race St. construction and 801 Market signage

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Spotted: Automat Americana

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I-95 archaeology exhibit in Kensington Thursday

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Historical Commission accepts Baywood Hotels plan for Warner Bros. Building

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From Above: Independence Square, 1927

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National Museum of the American Indian treaty exhibition featuring Penn Treaty Museum artifact opens in September

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