Visiting the Liberty Bell
by mccalpin
When you visit the Liberty Bell, first know that you might want to go to the Liberty Bell Center on Market between 5th and 6th. The Bell itself is in a separate building a block or two away.
The Center has all the information, videos, and presentations about the Bell. The actual location of the Bell has only...the Bell - and metal detectors and security...
You must stand in line to see the Bell itself, as access is limited (because of the size of the space or lack thereof). Therefore, you will want to go see the Bell real early in the day, before the tour buses arrive. When you see the Bell, you are only a few feet away - despite the crowd in the picture, you can get close to the Bell with a little effort (it helps if you want to hear the Park Ranger speak, anyway).
Go to the Art Museum (the big...
by Celestian
Go to the Art Museum (the big one), the Academy of Art, and the Rodin Museum. Walking, don't waste time with a car, you will sit in traffic. There is good mass transit and Center City is very well suited to pedestrians. I miss the feel of the city, this is an old city and has a much more relaxing atmosphere than other American towns.
Center City by Districts: Rittenhouse District
by ringleader
If you plan to stay in the city to sight-see, perhaps I can acquaint you with the layout of the city. There are a number of center city districts:
Moving west toward the Schuylkill River, you have the Parkway/Museum District and the Rittenhouse Square District.
South of the Parkway/Museum District is the Rittenhouse Square District which is the home of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts (Philadelphia Orchestra), Academy of Music, Merriam Theater, University of the Arts, Peirce College, Prince Music Theater, The Shops at Liberty, The Shops at Bellevue, Curtis Institute of Music, and the Academy of Vocal Arts. Hotels in this district include The Ritz-Carlton, The Rittenhouse, La Reserve, Radisson Plaza, Sheraton, Westin, Latham, Park Hyatt.
Founding Fathers
by acemj
Study up on your history before you visit Philadelphia and you'll be rewarded with a more satisfying visit. It's great to walk the same streets as George Washington, Ben Franklin, John Penn, Robert Morris and many other icons of American history.
Here's a shot of the interior of Christ Church, where all of the above mentioned men worshipped at one time or the other.
Got to get my ACT together,...
by billus
Got to get my ACT together, man! Got to scan in everything and digitize it, for the future. Need to migrate to latest compressed format, hard drive saturated with czechlesovakian jpegs and burn all mp3s dwgs and EPSs to disc, convert archives to DVD buy 20 gigs, DSL accelerator, ramjac heliowatt amplifier more physical memory a crunchier computer. Programs need replacing gave away the discs-who knew? Photoshop to California schizochick, Autocad to dysfunctional former colleague; besides stocking the larder with Skoda parts, smoked meat, sterilized water, peanut butter, black market Cipro.
Is this the craziest east coast autumn in living memory or what? At least that bright, yellow irritating object has finally gone away. Now its 70 F and we're suffering a plague of mosquitoes, interrupting my beauty sleep. No wonder I have been so touchy in the office. By the way, did you get my memo? Use the new cover sheets on your TPS reports in the future. Thaaanks. About those blighters I got a can of environmentally friendly deep-woods off and the problem has gone away...Thanks, Monsanto. Because without chemicals, life itself would be impossible.*
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