Thomas H. Caldwell » Drexel Hill PA http://thcphotography.com/blog Photographer, West Chester, PA Sat, 06 Jul 2019 04:33:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 The Llanerch Diner. http://thcphotography.com/blog/?p=1704 http://thcphotography.com/blog/?p=1704#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2014 21:15:41 +0000 http://thcphotography.com/blog/?p=1704 This Diner is where Jennifer Lawrence did a major flip-out on Bradley Cooper in the movie Silver Linings Playbook.

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The infamous booth.

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]]> http://thcphotography.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1704 0 Suzuki Boulevard http://thcphotography.com/blog/?p=1601 http://thcphotography.com/blog/?p=1601#comments Sun, 29 Dec 2013 04:49:39 +0000 http://thcphotography.com/blog/?p=1601 Nice December day for my Suzuki and me to spend some quality time together. Took Goshen/Strasburg Road home. Great mc road! Thought I would take a photo of the bike while it was illuminated by the outdoor seasonal lighting. It turned out OK, I guess.

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]]> http://thcphotography.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1601 0 Drexel Hill Update http://thcphotography.com/blog/?p=615 http://thcphotography.com/blog/?p=615#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:52:53 +0000 http://thcphotography.com/blog/?p=615 Philadelphia skyline from Archbishop Prendergast High School.

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Archbishop Prendergast and (in the distance) Monsignor Bonner High Schools. The two schools will merge and not be closed as was previously announced.

Prendergast is the high school in the movie Silver Linings Playbook where Pat Solitano (Bradley Cooper) looses his teaching job.

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Upper Darby High School. Some notable alumni: Lloyd Alexander, Jim Croce, Heather Donahue, Tina Fey, Jack Ramsey, and Marty Stern. Todd Rundgren also attended UDHS, but did not graduate.

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Drexel Hill Middle School (formerly Drexel Hill Junior High School) althletic fields. Some good memories and a couple life lessons were made and learned here. If you overlook the rusty and crooked fences, the fields still look pretty good, however the school itself  looks bad. I remember when it was brand new, but that was long ago. 

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1960 DHJHS Track Team (R.I.P. coach Cain, d. 1997)

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1960 DHJHS Football Team (R.I.P. coach Medzarentz, d. 2010)

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Drexelbrook Catering (formerly Drexelbrook Swimming and Tennis Club). What happened to that giant pool? Did I do all those watermelons and can openers for nothing? 

Dick Clark, Ed McMahon, and Lee Iacocca all at some point lived in the surrounding Drexelbrook Apartments. This complex of townhouses was built on the former site of the Aronimink Golf Club.

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Saint Bernadette’s Church and School, Drexel Hill, PA. John Facenda (the voice of NFL Films) attended Mass here.

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Aronimink Elementary School, Drexel Hill, PA.

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View from the family plot, Arlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill, PA.

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The Drexel Hill home where Jim Croce lived at the time of his graduation from Upper Darby High School in 1960.

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Drexel Hill home on Argyle Avenue where Helen Conway burned to death on November 8, 1964.  It’s a world famous alleged case of SHC (spontaneous human combustion).

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