Walnut Street

When I see one, I see someone kicking it.

I see someone I've many times have been on Walnut Street and people will purposely stand in front of it.

So I think this woman is part of a larger trend.

And what does it say? I mean, I think what she just said is probably what a lot of people feel when they see these one.

We were a city built for like horse carriages and like short sidewalks.

So like, Most of our public space is for cars now, right? We have multiple lanes of cars and parking.

Okay, we have small sidewalks, even in Center City, Walnut Street.

If you've ever tried to walk up and down Walnut Street, you're either walking slow behind someone or speedily trying to go around them.

What?

Australia was ordered Saturday to close its Walnut Street location until it passes re-inspection.

All right.

That is really rough to hear because today our friends were talking about our street names in Australia.

Yeah

And Walnut Street may as well have been one of them.

Yes.

They were making fun of us for having, uh, stupid cutesy little names.

Expense account item one, 2250, air transportation and miscellaneous, Hartford to New York to Philadelphia.

For a change, I decided to stay at the Benjamin Franklin, not only because it was convenient to Harry Branson's office on Walnut Street, that is the office of Philly Mutual Liability and Casualty, but because I'd heard it was a nice hotel.

It was.

And it was convenient to everything else in the center of town.

Uh, by the way, a tradition not quite like those that we started, uh, hmm, I'd have to go back how many years ago it was.

I remember the first one was at Broad and Walnut.

The cardinal was blessing.

I wanted a pope, but we only had a cardinal.

I took the train because Harry Branson didn't seem to be in any particular hurry, and I kinda like a slow look at the countryside this time of year.

When I got to Philadelphia, I checked into the Bellevue Stratford, shaved and showered, then went over to Harry Branson's office in the Security First building on Walnut Street.

You deceived me, John.

I thought when we talked long distance that you'd be here right away.

Second, and just as important, the name of the beneficiary of Amerigo's policies.

Item two on expense account, $1 even.

Taxi to the Harnell Building, also on Walnut Street, and the office of Peter Corbin, Amerigo's booking agent.

The building was plush, but Corbin's office was about as bare as I'd ever seen.

The new Ironsides lies at one of the wharves, elephantine in bulk and color, her sides narrowing as they rise, like the walls of a hawk-glass.

I went straight to the house in Walnut Street, where the captain would be heard of, if anywhere in this region.

His lieutenant-colonel was there, gravely wounded.

His college friend and comrade-in-arms, a son of the house, was there, injured in a similar way.

"'Captain H. here?' Oh, no, sir, left yesterday morning for Hagerstown in a milk cart.

The Kitzmiller is a beady-eyed, cheery-looking ancient woman, answers questions with a rising inflection, and gives a good account of the captain, who got into the vehicle without assistance and was in excellent spirits.

Of course, he had struck for Hagerstown as the terminus of the Cumberland Valley Railroad, and was on his way to Philadelphia via Chambersburg and Harrisburg, if he were not already in the hospitable home of Walnut Street where his friends were expecting him.

I might follow on his track, or return upon my own.

What are you doing this weekend?

weekend?Sunday, I'll be at Open Streets on Walnut Street.

That's right.

We'll have a table there.

Come say hi.

Have a great time.

Don't, don't DM me, like, like after the fact and like, "Oh, I saw you on Walnut Street." Just come and say hi.

Yeah.

Spaces, shout out.

And I was at about 22nd, 23rd and Walnut.

Yep.

Great office.

So for like a year, year and a half, my last year, year and a half at U.S.

Spaces, we had a second office in Roxborough, and then they had a third office at like a co-working space in the city.

So they had co-working, they had Walnut, they had Roxborough.

So thank you.

That's right.

And if you don't know, this is when eight blocks of West Walnut Street goes car-free, bus-free.

You can walk and frolic-

[laughs]

Just experience that.

Yeah.

And there's gonna be entertainment, um, throughout the programming, and it runs until 5:00 PM, but they're gonna close the streets starting at 7:00 AM until 6:00 PM along Walnut Streets from Broad to 19th Streets, and along 18th Street from Chestnut to Locust.

Mm-hmm.

Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse were on hand for this event, providing free eye care.

Wills Eye Hospital hosted its annual Give Kids Sight Day at its location right there on Walnut Street.

Kids who need glasses after receiving an exam receive two free frames.

The event has helped more than 14,000 kids across the Delaware Valley get free eye care services.