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Old Posted Feb 28, 2021, 9:48 AM
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I know some users really wanted this to happen. UArts took the giant banner off the facade of their building at broad and pine
Little known fact: Like its adjacent neighbor to the south — and long before it became a part of UArts as Anderson Hall — this building was a parking garage, Sley's Pennsylvania Garage, later leased to the U.S.M.C. (Universal Service Motors Company) garage chain, which also ran the now-doomed garage on the corner.

Deep dive facebook discussion with newspaper clippings:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Phil...54797688142202

Photo (zoomable), circa 1920s, by RAU Studios: https://collections.library.uarts.ed...st/id/42/rec/1
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Last edited by Jayfar; Mar 1, 2021 at 6:38 AM.