| Jeff Abrahamson on 19 May 2005 16:18:32 -0000 |
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On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 09:51:17AM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote: > [15 lines, 115 words, 628 characters] Top characters: enaosdhi > > On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:55:46PM -0400, Eric Lucas wrote: > > I cannot confirm the Woodland part (before my time?) but it is indeed in > > the block between Chestnut and Market on 32nd... I had Physics there back > > in the 80's. > > What used to be Woodland Avenue is now the diagonal path starting at > 32nd and Chestnut and running through Drexel's quad and Penn's campus > to 38th St. just south of Spruce. It becomes a real street again > somewhere around 39th St. > > Woodland Ave. has been gone since the 70s, but you can still see > traces of it in both the path and the various oddly-shaped triangular > buildings along its route. I thought the closure was closer to 1960? Anyway, either Locust or Woodland was closed in 1959 by Penn with a one-time closing fee of $1 million paid to the city, iirc from a search a once did at the Penn archives. -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> +1 215/837-2287 GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B Attachment:
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