Talk:Port Richmond, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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I feel bad deleting what little content there is in this stub, but that link to InPortRichmond.com is a good candidate for deletion. The site doesn't have much content, and it doesn't seem to have been updated in more than a year.
At the very least, there should be scare quotes around the word "official" in its tag line -- Port Richmond is a neighborhood, not a political entity, so there is no entity empowered to make anything the official anything of Port Richmond. It's sort of like how M&M's were the official candy of the millenium.
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[edit] My revert
Wikipedia is not for rumors. --Davidstrauss 22:27, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Added Content
Added content and photos. I hope this helps.
However, I think a little more could be added to "Today's Port Richmond"
Maybe even a section "Port Richmond during World War II" Wikited (talk) 03:04, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Added World War II section
I added World War II section as a stub. Maybe someone can do some research and improve it.Wikited (talk) 20:21, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Collier photo
I added the collier photo to show Port Richmond was a busy place for ships between the colonial period and the 20th century. If you click on the photo of the colliers, it will direct you to a book -- published in 1875 -- about Philly that has a lot of information about Port Richmond. Unfortunately my venerable and ancient copy has some of those pages about Port Richmond missing. However, the Philadelphia Public Library should have a copy. I live down in Maryland, although I was born and grew up in Port Richmond.
There appears to be a lot of good information in those missing pages...
(Someone with a sharp pair of scissors apparently used my book for a school paste-up job... He or she is probably long gone now, but there should be a good copy at the Library.Wikited (talk) 02:14, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Added 3 photos
Added 3 photos (Music Hall, Allegheny Ave., and detail of St. Adalbert) after visiting Port Richmond today to pick up some kiebasy. I'm not too happy with the photo of Allegheny Avenue, but I'll try to get a better shot the next time I'm back in town. -- I drove to the east end of Allegheny to see if I could photograph something left of the port, but no such luck. Couldn't find anything except for the huge Tioga Terminal.Wikited (talk) 23:09, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
