LOVE Philly: Beyond Electrical




Links to life-enhancing stuff that amounts to why my business and home is in Philly.

FAIRMOUNT PARKS

Fairmount Park is both a single, largest-in-the-nation city park and the name of the City of Philadelphia’s public parks system, the Fairmount Parks Commission (recently pulled into City government, rather than being semi-autonomous).

West River / MLK Drive

Philly Fun Guide’s place page for West River / Martin Luther King Drive features directions, basic description and events calendar for this beautiful avenue on the west bank of the Schulkill River. Park and picnic areas flank the avenue, which closes to auto traffic on weekends spring, summer and fall. The avenue also connects to Fairmount Park.

Forbidden Drive / Wissahickon Trail

My acupuncturist recently described a stroll here, on an unseasonably warm January day, as ‘like being on drugs’. The euphoria comes of this lush valley with gorgeous New Deal era (?) roman arched bridges overhead and quiet, greenery and pleasantly contrasting patches of deep shade and brilliant sun breaking through all around.

There is diversity of access points and a well-graded, family-friendly main trail criss-crossed by rugged single-track trails beloved of mountain-bikers (but not so busy as to be nerve-wracking for walkers).

 

 

PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART

A world-class art museum perched atop an acropolis overlooking the grand Ben Franklin Parkway, I especially like Philadelphia Museum of Art’s ‘Art After 5‘ year-round series of performing arts events staged in the grand stair hall.

 

NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD (19143)

Four Worlds Bakery, 4634 Woodland Ave.

Get the almond/cheese croissant. And check out West Philly Tool Library down the street.

 

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  • Bartram's Gardens Founded in Philadelphia’s colonial era, today the gardens continue pioneering in horticulture and agriculture with a variety of herbs, trees and other vegetation in an arboretum/gardens on the Schulkill River banks, and a new farm abutting sadly neglected
  • HiddenCity Philadelphia Surprising places it takes an adventurer to discover; events, too.
  • Philly Household Hazardous Waste Drop-off Schedule City of Philadelphia dates and places for disposing of spent batteries, CFL lamps, unused paint and cleaning products, etc. LovePhilly: don’t pour these in the drain or send them out with the trash.
  • Reading Terminal Market Purveyors of fine foods and foodie stuff, all under one roof downtown under the PA Convention Center
  • Secret Garden on the Rails Jacques-Jean Tiziou shows some dramatic natural and urban and naturalized-urban scenes along abandoned rails of Philadelphia
  • Sketch Burger, Fishtown A vegan-friendly burger joint with a #1 in Philly contender beef burger, best fries that somehow stay fresh for 1/2 hour while you tackle burger, and a vegan cafe vibe of friendly folks.
  • WXPN: Philly sings in key of love Love songs by Philly artists