West Philadelphia Catholic Boys' High School

This formerly all-male, all-white Catholic high school at 49th & Chestnut streets was one of the two main sources of teen dancers for Bob Horn’s Bandstand and later Dick Clark’s American Bandstand.

This school opened in 1917 and remained in operation until it merged with West Philadelphia Catholic Girls’ High School in 1989 to form West Philadelphia Catholic Preparatory High School.

The boys’ building was subsequently purchased and reorganized asa regional headquarters by the School District of Philadelphia, which replaced it with a new building for West Philadelphia High School in 2011.