There's this 172GB file containing microfilms from the period but not sure how helpful that might be. No color either.

Could always be integrated into a more interesting design with colors I suppose.

Depicting the Penn family coat of arms for the Philadelphia city flag and the Keystone on the State flag is my dream.

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No Altoona style pizza?

Good to hear, but I remember when PATCO introduced timers it took about a year to reach >95% accuracy. It felt like accuracy slowly climbed throughout the year as they (presumably?) were fine-tuning it.

I'll have to look into the commission more.

Meh, there's tons of surface lots in CC to be developed still. Wish we could be more like Western Europe and manage to balance both a healthy respect for historic preservation with sound planning. Obviously it can be done there while still resulting in much more livable cities. I don't really get all the preservation critiquing on here, the historic built environment it's what sets our city apart from much of the country.

Huh never had that happen to me. Where in East Falls does this happen to you usually? If you don't mind

I mean Lidl's on Main Street and just a 20 minute walk from the train station (just to use that as a marker of centrality here). It's all definitely doable depending on where OP works, if not everyone's ideal.