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To the Philadelphia, PA steampunks - a question!

Jul 22, 2008 07:31

So I'm going to be going to Philly on a business trip this Thursday. I've never been there before. And after my meeting I will have quite some time to myself to explore the city. However, my problem is, I have no idea what to explore! I will have a car (is parking there hard? Mind you, I'm a New Yorker so I'm used to bad traffic) and a GPS, but I ( Read more... )

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in_remission July 22 2008, 12:54:27 UTC

Oh I love Philly :) A shame I'm not up there, we'd have lots of fun exploring ( ... )

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in_remission July 22 2008, 16:15:58 UTC

Ohhh!!! I forgot about that, damn!.

I used to go there when I visited Philly, yea its HUGE. I totally forgot last time, I'll have to check it out when I go next month.

Thats right by that mcdonalds right?

dreamshadows July 23 2008, 00:25:31 UTC

Oh thank you! I just looked it up and sounds like quite a treasure hunt! I have to say, there seem to be a lot of places around Philly to dig for some good vintage stuff that would work for steampunk.

dip_thong July 22 2008, 15:02:49 UTC

I wouldn't know - it's not a goth community.

I hear touring the mint is great fun, with lots of bits of machinery. Downtown has a network of tunnels for the subway, and there's an abandoned PATCO station for bonus points. The bridges are pretty, but avoid going to Camden if you're all gussied up.

smu July 22 2008, 17:52:59 UTC

Seconded on Camden, stay far away from Camden

bklynwebgrrl July 22 2008, 17:20:58 UTC

I have to second the antiquiarian's delight and armed and dangorous. I don't know if you like crepes but there is a place right across the street called Beau Monde - and also a hooka bar.

Crash Bang Boom is dissappointing, of course I'm used to Religious Sex (rip) and Trash and Vaudeville. It's very small.

Try instead Passional on 5th and Bainbridge. You'll know it by the corsets in the window. It's purple.

Parking stinks - worse than NY by far. If you don't have a permit you won't get more than 2 hours, max at any one place. And the parking peeps are really insane but the tickets are only 35$ which isn't all that much comparitively speaking. They like to tow. If you'll be here after school hours, there is always parking on Fitzwater between 4th and 5th without the hour limit, I think. It's about two blocks south of South Street and near everything.

smu July 22 2008, 17:56:29 UTC

Pine St has a lot of antique stores, but many of them are by appointment only. There's a fantastic, small and cramped used bookstore on Market St and 2nd called the Book Traders. It's right across from Christ Church, which is a beautiful Protestant church where George Washington and co used to worship.

Also, Philly has a ton of creepy and fascinating cemetaries peppered around everywhere, if that's your thing.

Walnut St has a lot of the mainstream stores like Lush, Urban Outfitters and a HUGE Anthropologie right across from a lovely park called Rittenhouse Square.

heresiarch July 22 2008, 19:17:04 UTC

mind you, it's been over 10 years since i moved away from philly, but apparently delicious boutique is there (http://www.deliciousboutique.com/), and they have a shop that carries brands like skingraft, wildcard and bootleg (as well as their own corsets). i have no idea what the shop is actually like, though, but i thought i'd throw the suggestion into the mix.

parking in center city is probably comparable to nyc -- there's sometimes street parking, otherwise there are various lots.