Description
A LOOK INSIDE
Title: This Used to Be Philadelphia
Author: Natalie and Tricia Pompilio
Size: 6 x 9
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781681063126
Price: $22.50
Philadelphia is thick with American firsts. Some—including the first zoo, first hospital, first public library, first university, first computer—are well known. Others are not and are here to be appreciated: Girl Scout cookies were originally baked by a commercial bakery here and “American Bandstand” was born in a West Philadelphia TV studio. This Used to Be Philadelphia goes deep inside the buildings, monuments, and familiar sights of the city to uncover its rich history, layer by layer.
This book will introduce you to the city’s first residents, the Lenni Lenape, the tireless workers who made this “the Workshop of the World,” and the current residents who love all of these stories as told through the spaces they have filled. Learn how buildings from the 1876 World’s Fair, the first to be held in the U.S., are used today. Appreciate the city’s creative adaptive reuse projects, including a former technical school turned office space with a rooftop bar and the railroad headquarters that’s now artists’ studios.
Take a colorful tour of the city’s bygone days with local sisters Natalie and Tricia Pompilio. You’ll never look at an old building in Philadelphia the same way again.
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Book chronicles what Philly used to be – South Philly Review
Queen Village sisters Natalie and Tricia Pompilio enjoyed their 2017 book collaboration, Walking Philadelphia: 30 Walking Tours Featuring Art, Architecture, History and Little-Known Gems.
Book chronicles what Philly used to be – Northeast Times
Queen Village sisters Natalie and Tricia Pompilio enjoyed their 2017 book collaboration, Walking Philadelphia: 30 Walking Tours Featuring Art, Architecture, History and Little-Known Gems. “It was really, really fun. I love researching and telling these stories,” Natalie said. So, when Reedy Press —
‘This Used to be Philadelphia’ reveals the stories behind the city’s most iconic public places and spaces – The Philadelphia Inquirer
No other American city is as perfect for a “This Used to Be” book than Philadelphia.
Stellar reporter/author at Mt. Airy Zoom book event – Chestnut Hill Local
For years, every time I saw the byline Natalie Pompilio in the Philadelphia Inquirer, I would make it a point to read the story. I knew it was bound to be a compelling human-interest story. As Ezra Pound once wrote
This Is What Philadelphia Used to Be Like – NBC10
Ever wonder what the City of Brotherly Love used to be like? Philly Live’s Sheila Watko talks to author Natalie Pompilio about the book This Used to Be Philadelphia that gives you a look at some of the hidden and
