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[fnarf at comcast.net]

Awesome find! I think you're right; This book: http://tinyurl.com/489p3k , from 1917, says that Trainer's was a hotel at S. Broad and Locust. 123 would be another block north, between Walnut and Sansom.

There's another picture of this part of Broad Street, looking south from City Hall, on page 17 of the guidebook, but it's much too low a resolution to make out any of the shops or signs.

An amusing (?) clip from the guidebook: "Philadelphia has a large foreign population, the greater part of which inhabits the section east of Broad St. and south of Locust St. [very near the Victor store]. This section, in which once the society of the city resided, has been given over almost entirely to foreigners, including Russians, Jews, Italians, Syrians, Greeks, and Hungarians. Churches and theaters here are supported exclusively by the foreign element, and a most picturesque life may be observed, particularly in the Italian section."




--
Steve.

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From: "Sam Brylawski" <goodlistening at gmail.com>
> I'd place the Victor store behind the Trainer's sign in this view
> looking north from the Academy of Music.
> 
> http://www.shorpy.com/node/4356?size=_original
> 
> Sam
> 
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:01 PM,  <fnarf at comcast.net> wrote:
> > I was able to discover on the web page of the Academy of Music (Philadelphia's 
> opera house), just up the block from here, that the street was residential when 
> it was built in 1857. Presumably the presence of the Academy drew other 
> music-related businesses nearby, including Victor. There are some tantalizing 
> catalog records for photographs from c.1914 around there in the Free Library's 
> collection, but there's something wrong with their website and they won't load.
> >
> > --
> > Steve.
> >
> >  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> > From: fnarf at comcast.net
> >> Michael Biel writes:
> >>
> >> > >> For the record, this sleeve notes The Talking Machine Co. is the
> >> > >> "exclusive showrooms for Victor" at 143 S. Broad. and the N.E. corner of
> >> > >> Broad and Columbia.  The first one is right by City Hall.  What's there
> >> > >> now?
> >> > >>
> >> > fnarf at comcast.net wrote:
> >> > > There's no such street as "South Broad" in New York anymore,
> >> >
> >> > PHILADELPHIA !!!!!   I mentioned the city earlier in the post and it's
> >> > there on the picture.  Sorry for the confusion.
> >>
> >> OK, that address in Philly is a large commercial block called the Wachovia
> >> Building. Presumably it will be called something else soon, after the courts
> >> decide who gets to buy whatever assets Wachovia has left.
> >>
> >> The building was built in 1927, and is a pretty impressive example of pre-war
> >> commercial building. It's 30 stories high. It used to be called the
> >> Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company Building, and in 1983, it was the
> >> headquarters of "Duke & Duke" in the movie Trading Places.
> >>
> >> I don't know where to look for historical photographs of Philadelphia. Would
> >> this have likely been 18th-century rowhouses before this was built?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Steve Thornton
> >
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