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Moviehouse Productions is proud to present its latest installment in its Philadelphia Neighborhood series, “Fred’s Frankford Stories”. Frankford is a historic lower Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood.
Our “star” is Fred Prescott, lifelong Frankford resident and board member of the Historical Society of Frankford (HSF). Special thanks to Susan Couvreur, HSF board member, for her invaluable assistance.
Fred tells stories of growing up and living in Frankford of an another time, early 1940’s through the 1960’s.
Topics covered in “Fred’s Frankford Stories” include:
Frankford Geography
The People of Frankford
Fred’s World- “Whitehall Commons”
“The Five Mile Train”
Frankford Schools and Houses of Worship
Movie Theatres and Shopping
“The Salesmen of the Frankford Streets”
Restaurants
Transportation
The Unusual Characters of Frankford and “The Elephant”
Boy Scouting
The 1943 Crash of the Congressional Limited
The Birth of “Rock and Roll” in Frankford
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