Philadelphia
Been living here for about three years now. Anyone else out there living in Philly now?
Wasn't sure where to post this... but I figured this would be the best place. I'm working on a longer peice, a novel of sorts, that takes place in Philadelphia and was wondering if anyone had any interesting anedotes about the Philadelphia Water system, like the pipes and the way they work, the drainage system, water sheds, sewage, etc (the characters travel underground).
Or, if you have interesting stories in general about Philadelphia. The novel is very dark and I'm just interested in some of the horror stories any of you have survived.
I myself was jumped and beaten while biking home one night in South Philly. They didn't take anything, just beat me up a little and then let me go. I had a hundred dollars on me and my laptop (which had all of my stories on it) and I had just gotten the bike. They asked me if they could have it while one of them punched me in the face and I said "No" while spitting blood. It was surreal because I knew I couldn't fight back (I would've gotten killed). It was like a casual conversational kind of beating that I was getting.
Days later I got doored while biking down a different route (presumably safer) and ended up fracturing my pelvis and had to use crutches for three months.
Feel free to also post something nice about Philadelphia, or something just strange and weird, since it's gotten a pretty bad rap lately as the country's bloodiest city. Allegedly Poe wrote a lot of stuff while here, and David Lynch spent a lot of his younger years in the city.
Beer, beer, beer, bed, bed, bed.
I've always wondered, is it always sunny there?
[QUOTE=chad lott;1088359]The main reason I've always wanted to go to Philadelphia is the Mutter Museum. Living there, you probably know about it, but in the off chance you haven't heard about it, it is a museum dedicated to medical curiosities and abnormally formed humans. I have the coffee table book they put out a few years ago and it's awesome.
What a great setting for a story.[/QUOTE]
The Mutter Museum is AWESOME!!! i went last summer, after years of saying "i really want to go to the mutter museum"
anyhow:
about philly
i think there was a big bank heist there years ago which involved people breaking into a bank vault through the sewer. thats all i got that is even kind of relevent to this topic.
also, there's a cultie called Yalla Yalla who lives in philly.
Been to the Mutter twice. A good first date. If they still want to hang out afterwards, you know you've found a keeper.
Happy Hooker: a bank heist with people breaking in through the sewers is a HUGE help. If you have any info on that, or find an article, I definetly want to check it out. I've read a few articles here and there about the Philadelphia water system, namely a short article written by a guy that was given a tour of it. It's kind of interesting. Like you can tell how high the water rises due to where you see toilet paper on the ladder down. Also it's a bad idea to go down there around 7-8 o'clock because that's when people are hitting the toilets after dinner.
Mutter is pretty cool. Not as weird as you'd think, and if anyone here DOES go, make sure you give yourself plenty of time to go through it all. There's more reading than you'd see at other museams. Especially the section of conjoined twins.
Beer, beer, beer, bed, bed, bed.
does this help:
DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI is the author of six non-fiction books about vice and crime, including THIS HERE’S A STICK-UP: THE BIG BAD BOOK OF AMERICAN BANK ROBBERY (Alpha, 2002) and THE PERFECT DRINK FOR EVERY OCCASION (Quirk, 2003). He’s worked as an editor at Men’s Health, Details and Philadelphia magazines, and is now editor in chief of the Philadelphia City Paper. Swierczynski is such a crime fiction junkie, he named his first-born son “Parker” in honor of the Richard Stark character. Duane's first crime novel SECRET DEAD MEN will be published later this year by PointBlank Press. Next year sees the publication of his second novel, SMELL THE ROSES, from St Martin's Press. He welcomes all comments; his literary agent is David Hale Smith.
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The main reason I've always wanted to go to Philadelphia is the Mutter Museum. Living there, you probably know about it, but in the off chance you haven't heard about it, it is a museum dedicated to medical curiosities and abnormally formed humans. I have the coffee table book they put out a few years ago and it's awesome.
What a great setting for a story.