Portal:Philadelphia/Selected picture archive/2009
2009[edit]
- December
The Army–Navy Game is an annual college football game between the teams of the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, New York and the United States Naval Academy (USNA) at Annapolis, Maryland. The USMA team, "Army", and the USNA team, "Navy", each represent their services' oldest officer commissioning sources. As such, the game has come to embody the spirit of the interservice rivalry of the United States Armed Forces. Traditionally, the game is played in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, due to the historic nature of the city and the fact that it is approximately halfway between West Point and Annapolis.
- November
The Church of St. James the Less is an historic Episcopal church building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that was architecturally influential. As St. James-the-Less Episcopal Church, it is designated a National Historic Landmark. According to the National Park Service's official Statement of Significance the church "is the first example of the pure English Parish church style in America, and one of the best examples of a 19th-century American Gothic church for its coherence and authenticity of design. Its influence on the major architects of the Gothic Revival in the United States was profound."
- October
The Battle of White Marsh was a battle of the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War fought December 5–8, 1777, in the area surrounding White Marsh, Pennsylvania. The battle, which took the form of a series of skirmish actions, was the last major engagement of 1777 between British and American forces.
- September
56th Street Station is an elevated stop on the Market–Frankford Line, above the intersection of 56th Street and Market Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Haddington neighborhood lies to the north, and the Cobbs Creek neighborhood to the south. 56th Street Station was reconstructed in 2005 as part of SEPTA's reconstruction of the Market Street Elevated line.
- August
The Italian Market is the popular name for the South 9th Street Curb Market, an area of Philadelphia featuring many grocery shops, cafes, restaurants, bakeries, cheese shops, butcher shops, etc., many with an Italian influence. It is generally considered to extend along 9th Street from Fitzwater Street at the north to Wharton Street at the south. The term Italian Market is also used to describe the surrounding neighborhood that's nestled between South Street to the North and Wharton Street to the South running a few blocks to the east and west of 9th street.
- July
The First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry is a unit of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard and is the oldest continuously serving unit in the United States military. Also known as the First City Troop, it was one of the first patriotic military organizations established in the American Revolution. It was organized in 1774 as the Light Horse of the City of Philadelphia, often referred to as the Philadelphia Light Horse.
- June
The Benjamin Franklin Bridge, originally named the Delaware River Bridge, is a suspension bridge across the Delaware River connecting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Camden, New Jersey. Named for American statesman Benjamin Franklin, the bridge is owned and operated by the Delaware River Port Authority.
- May
The Electric Factory is a concert venue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The original Electric Factory venue was a converted tire warehouse at 22nd and Arch Streets, which opened in 1968. The original closed in 1973, but was resurrected circa late 1994 or early 1995 and now stands at an actual converted electric factory at 421 N. 7th Street between Willow and Spring Garden Streets. Playing in the photo is the pop punk band The Starting Line. The Starting Line formed in 1999 and is from Philadelphia.
- April
The annual Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia is a spring celebration commemorating Japan’s 1926 gift of 1,600 flowering trees to the City of Philadelphia as a gesture of goodwill. The festival is a series of events spread over two months, with the centerpiece culture fair celebration "Sakura Sunday" taking place in Fairmount Park at the site of the historic cherry blossom tree plantings.
- March
The Mummers Parade is held each New Year's Day in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Local clubs (usually called "New Years Associations") compete in one of four categories (Comics, Fancies, String Bands, and Fancy Brigades). They prepare elaborate costumes and moveable scenery, which take months to complete. This is done in clubhouses, many of which are located on or near 2nd Street (called "Two Street" by some local residents) in the Pennsport neighborhood of South Philadelphia, which also serve as social gathering places for members.
- February
Delair Bridge is a lift bridge carrying the New Jersey Transit Atlantic City Line and a Conrail line across the Delaware River between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Pennsauken Township, New Jersey. The bridge's southern track is reserved for freight traffic, and the northern track for the Atlantic City Line. The bridge is located just south of the Betsy Ross Bridge.
- January
Tun Tavern was a tavern in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania which served as a founding or early meeting place for a number of notable groups. It is traditionally regarded as the site where the United States Marine Corps held its first recruitment drive. Today the Tun Tavern no longer exists, and its original location is now occupied by Interstate 95.