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The Fairmount Park Transit Company built artful stone bridges that spanned creeks and ravines in the pathway of the trolley line. The bridge shown in this photo is below Wynnefield Heights in West Fairmount Park. The Fairmount Park Conservancy and Terra Firma Trails are now constructing a “Trolley Trail,” designed to be “a continuous trail that follows the pathway of the scenic trolley that ran through the woods of West Fairmount Park in the early 20th century.”
Robeson was born here 9 April 1898 as the youngest child of Rev. William and Maria Bustill Robeson.
The frame of a historic Woodland Avenue trolley marks the entrance to the SEPTA station at 37th and Spruce streets. The trolley was manufactured by the J.G. Brill Company. The station itself is some 40 feet below ground. Across Spruce is the Memorial Gate of Penn’s Upper Quad college houses.
Restaurants offering varieties of cuisine on Baltimore Avenue near 47th Street.
The garden “farm” was a notable UCHS project of the 2000aughts up to the high school’s closing in 2013—with resource and personnel support from Penn’s Netter Center.
Mosque Maryam, Chicago, IL, headquarters of Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam since 1981.
The New Century Guild (now the New Century Trust) was a spinoff from the New Century Club. Through programs and evening classes, its original mission was to provide vocational education and opportunities for working women. Unlike its predecessor organization, the New Century Guild/Trust has maintained continuous operation to the present day. Its mission now is to end the economic and political inequalities affecting women. The organization’s administrative home since 1906 has been the Center City building shown in the photograph.
Dick Clark was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, OH, in 1993 as a “non-performer.” Numerous black and white performers who appeared on American Bandstand during its seven-year heyday in West Philadelphia are also memorialized in this building.
The original design of the bridge is shown in this 2010 photo: roadway (left), pedestrian walk, trolley line (right). The trolleys ceased operation in 1946.
This view of Strawberry Mansion Bridge is west from Kelly Drive. Connecting East and West Fairmount Park, the bridge opened in 1897. Its main purpose was to convey trolley travelers to Woodside Park, the amusement park owned by the Fairmount Park Transportation Company. The bridge was locally known as the Park Trolley Bridge.