Philadelphia - Dreay day with lousy photographic equipment. Please enjoy.

Cro Burnham · #1 Posted **Mar 3, 2010, 5:00 AM**

xzmattzx · #2 Posted **Mar 3, 2010, 5:56 AM**

Nice pictures. Does anyone know what building is in the 5th and 6th pictures?

Cro Burnham · #3 Posted **Mar 3, 2010, 6:28 AM**

That's the Wanamaker Building. It's enormous. Over 1,000,000 s.f.

WEMO · #4 Posted **Mar 3, 2010, 7:57 PM**

nice

Moorlands · #5 Posted **Mar 3, 2010, 10:27 PM**

gorgeous building in pic 3. Is that city hall?

It reminds me of the Old Post Office in St. Louis
http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/manag...louispo_sm.jpg

Cro Burnham · #6 Posted **Mar 3, 2010, 11:20 PM**

Yes, that is City Hall. Philadelphia once had an old post office that looked alot like the one in St. Louis:

volguus zildrohar · #7 Posted **Mar 4, 2010, 1:18 AM**

City Hall and the post offices mentioned are all Second Empire French, a very distinctive style which masks the actual number of floors in a building. The base of City Hall is 7 floors.

The Wanamaker Building is an old favorite of mine. Built in 1909 on the site of the previous Wanamakers (John Wanamaker coined the phrase "the customer is always right), it's Philadelphia's only Burnham building and the largest single building downtown by a margin, occupying its entire block.

Way to get out there, Cro.

William of Waco · #8 Posted **Mar 4, 2010, 2:48 AM**

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...with lousy photographic equipment.

I've seen worse here.
Actually, I just pretended they were taken with a polaroid in the 1970s.

You didn't do too bad of a job with what you had.

Centropolis · #9 Posted **Mar 4, 2010, 3:17 AM**

Nostalgic for my rainy summer trip to Philly 3 years ago.