It was the gap after grading the exams and before giving the grades, so I decided that it was time to spend a day in Philadelphia with DrLen.
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whose neighbor had a good bumper sticker and license plate
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as DrLen got in his car
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and we drove to South Philadelphia where we parked in front of the cigar store that had this Indian (whoops!! Native American)
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in front of it so that we could eat at Marra's.
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where they had good pizzas
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on their menu
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It was even better when it came
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Afterwards, we stopped in the facilities
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to work off the diet cokes we'd had in preparation for our trip to Italiano's
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where they serve water ice and invented the gelati
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I had the out of towners version
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while DrLen's was more traditional
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Next we went to visit Joel
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and Diane
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who took these pictures of her garden
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and we headed off to South Philly where they put
McDonald's
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in front of painted murals on walls. We stopped at this park
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because it was opposite the original Levis building
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while this gentleman obliged for the obligatory phone booth picture
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at the plaque
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for W. E. B. DuBois. He kept talking
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even as I took the piercing pictures
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and pondered getting one as DrLen met his former helper
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whose name I forgot.
On we went towards the tattoo parlor
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and met the chef people.
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and then the police
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who didn't seem to mind me taking their picture but DrLen ducked in here
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Gentle viewer, perhaps you remember why I took this picture...
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as we headed to Rodeo Kidz
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by the stop sign
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while DrLen checked out the windows
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and I shot a picture of another mural
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by Adler's Fabrics
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and the whole street scene
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at the corner with the nicely painted facade
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looking out at the Stop Sign
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not to mention the beautiful pottery
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Then we met an old friend
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Again the street scene was very colorful
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as Larry
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watched over the next corner
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with the Haagen Dazs emblem
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hanging down as we saw another pioneer
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food establishment and a great cigar sign
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with boxes
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and seltzer bottles
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at gargoyles
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The sparkplug
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inspired DrLen
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and the trucks
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and this inspirational message
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led us to Isaiah Zaigar's work
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and we headed further down the street
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past the narrow street
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the directional sign
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and the natives
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to the car. On the way home, we saw this bus sign
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that reminded us that Judy was working, Our very last stop was to admire Wilt's mural
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and take a picture of these guys
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