Posted inCRIME TRANSPORTATION WORK
Hustled at Philly gas station
"I grew up in Philadelphia and when I came back- the differences between there and here – people are more friendly here even though that’s the city of brotherly love.…
Posted inCARS AND VEHICLES WORK
Shuttle from auto service shop
At 8:00 am sharp two courtesy shuttle vans, divide up Conicelli Auto customers who've driven their cars to the Conshohocken shop for service and shuttle them to their destinations which…
Posted inBUSINESS ROXBOROUGH MANAYUNK STORES
Statue of Liberty (Tax Services) dances ballet
Allison Allen knows how to make her own the dreary job luring in customers, costumed as the statue of Liberty outside the Liberty Tax Service on Ridge Avenue in Roxborough.…
Posted inCHESTNUT HILL ENVIRONMENT FASHION
Valentines Day roses – does love hurt?
[Alexandra Serfass, Robertson's Flowers greenhouse employee] In the 2004 movie, “Maria Full of Grace,” a pregnant young woman trades the harsh conditions of a flower packing operation in Colombia to…
Posted inANIMALS ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL
Vancouver librarian volunteers in Galapagos
Sally Taylor, a university reference librarian from Vancouver, Canada is finishing up an 8-month stint as a volunteer librarian at the Charles Darwin Research Station in the Galapagos. She spoke…
Personalizing grave monuments
Gallagher Memorials has been at the corner of Ivy Hill Road and Cheltenham Avenue, across from Holy Sepulcher Cemetery for more than 100 years. In that time, the use of…
Upholsterer makes house calls
Bruce Levin, whose grandfather’s company, “Perfect Rubber Seat Cushion,” began manufacturing cushions in Tacony in 1935, continues the family tradition with his retail shop in Chestnut Hill, “The Perfect Stitch,”…
Kilian Hardware’s Goudy holds court
Russell Goudy, after a little setback, nevertheless tends to customers and business seated by the lightbulb section near the store entrance while son Russ tends to the store's burgeoning Internet…
Med student preps for exam
Divya Arun, of Roxborough, a 3rd year medical student at Drexel University, studies the clinical manifestations of diseases at Chestnut Hill Coffee cafe in preparation for an oral exam. I…
Navy SEAL reservist encountered on sledding slope
"Tracker" Dan is a reservist with the United States Navy SEALS and has served on active duty in Iraq where he had a months-long assignment guarding former Iraqi Prime Minister…