re: #100 Feline Fearless Leader

I drove down through that area (Kensington) last week. Basically followed the SEPTA line down Kensington Ave and along Front St. as it was the first time I came down through there. So I was on a main street rather than in the warren of row houses. Still seems very working class neighborhood as compared to the gentrified areas around Rittenhouse and the Museum District.

Yes, I think it was originally where a lot of Irish immigrants settled and there were mostly older people and poor younger ones even when I was there (most of their kids had already moved to the semi-detached houses in the Northeast and elsewhere). And the politics there were pretty mixed, but you know how those old wards were—the ward workers tried to strong arm people to vote for Nixon (we campaigned for McGovern), and we even discovered there was a Nazi cell in the back of a corner store. Not everyone was like that, though, and I got to attend a couple of great block parties, too. : )