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Prim and proper Philadelphia has been rocked by the clash between
excessive vice and social virtue since its citizens burned the
city's biggest brothel in 1800. With tales of grave robbers in
South Philadelphia and and harlots in Franklin Square, "Wicked
Philadelphia"; reveals the shocking underbelly of the City of
Brotherly Love. In one notorious scam, a washerwoman masqueraded as
the fictional Spanish countess Anita de Bettencourt for two
decades, bilking millions from victims and even fooling the
government of Spain. From the 1843 media frenzy that ensued after
an aristocrat abducted a young girl to a churchyard transformed
into a brothel (complete with a carousel), local author Thomas H.
Keels unearths Philadelphia's most scintillating scandals and
corrupt characters in his rollicking history.
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Chestnut Hill (Hardcover)
Thomas H Keels, Elizabeth Farmer Jarvis, Chestnut Hill Historical Society
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How does a landmark become, after just a few generations, a
landfill? In Forgotten Philadelphia, Thomas Keels takes the reader
through a lavishly illustrated journey through three centuries of
Philadelphia's architecture: what was built; how the public
perceived the value of certain buildings; and why those buildings
were eventually demolished? Keels does not simply lament the loss
of buildings. Instead, he argues that in some cases there were good
reasons to demolish places like the Broad Street Station; while
some people today see this as a loss on par with the destruction of
New York's Penn Station, at the time its demolition was to many a
symbolic liberation from political corruption. In writing that
celebrates Philadelphia past without ever being sentimental, Keels
describes a city that was always reinventing itself, filled with
people who always had a very measured view of the worth and beauty
of its public architecture.
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