RETREAT
TO GOODISVILLE 2012
Tour by Lou Boxer and Duane Swierczynski
Dock Street: Cassidy’s
apartment (“He lived near the Delaware, in a three-room flat that overlooked
Dock Street and the piers on the river.”) Now the Society Hill Towers, except
for the Man Full of Trouble Tavern (125-127 Spruce Street, Philadelphia)[N39° 56.6632', W075° 8.6356'], all of it is gone. Many references throughout Goodis novels to Dock
Street/River Street slums; looking for traces of anything left from his
day remains a dautning task that we love to do.
Man Full of Trouble Tavern: one of the few buildings still standing from
the skid row days.
127 Spruce and Mattis Street
(1950s) Courtesy of Department of Records, Hot Ham Sandwiches, Hot Sausages sign behind car in foreground.
1960, Hot Ham Sandwiches, Hot Sausage sign at 127 Spruce and Mattis Streets
127 Spruce (1961) Courtesy
of Department of Records
TODAY
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