Posts tagged with “Seigmund Lubin”

The First Hollywood

16 April 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer

Now I’m standing at the entrance to Lubinville, where directors would make five motion pictures at one time and eager young men sweating in dinner jackets would jostle for the sidewalk view of the stars.

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The Wizard of Swampoodle

26 March 2007

Perhaps we still believe. Philadelphia, without revolution, industry, or influence lives on by invention. With no other convincing reason to inhabit the banks of our rivers, we turn to our dreams and project them — unevenly, haphazardly — onto the street.

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