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Pages in category "1950s in Philadelphia" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 1950 NFL draft;
In the 1940s and 1950s, Philadelphia was an important pop music center, with many bands and singers being made or broken in the city. [7] The 20th Century Club, Ciro's and the opulent, art deco Click Club on Market St. which Frank also owned were significant elements in the music scene. [7]
Wanamaker's commissioned a Philadelphia/New Jersey artist, George Washington Nicholson (1832–1912), to paint a large landscape mural, "The Old Homestead", which was finished in March 1892. The 7-by-14-foot (2.1 by 4.3 m) mural was still owned by Wanamaker's in 1950, but has since passed into a private collection.
The 1950 NFL draft was held on January 20–21, 1950. The former AAFC teams got to pick with the NFL teams and the Detroit Lions won the lottery pick. They used it to select Leon Hart, who played end at the University of Notre Dame. With an 11–1 record in the 1949 season and Cleveland at 9–1–2, the Eagles picked last in each round.
In 1950, a U.S. Air Force jet crashed into a row of homes on the east end of the complex, on Beachhead Road near Lagoon Road. This caused the PHA to tear down several of the homes on that street. In 1953, more homes were torn down to make way for the construction of a northern extension of the main north/south runway of North Philadelphia (now ...
The 1950 Philadelphia Phillies season was the 68th season in the history of the franchise. The Phillies won the National League pennant by two games over the Brooklyn Dodgers. Nicknamed the "Whiz Kids" because of the youth of their roster, they went on to lose the World Series to the New York Yankees in four straight games.
When a new tenant was ready to take the store's place in the 1950s, the men's store was relocated to the Wanamaker Building down the street. [14] In the early 1950s, the Philadelphia National Bank (PNB) needed to expand into a larger space than it currently occupied. On November 3, 1952, the bank bought the Lincoln-Liberty Building for US$8.75 ...
Philadelphia lost five percent of its population in the 1950s, three percent in the 1960s and more than thirteen percent in the 1970s. [104] Manufacturing and other major Philadelphia businesses, which had supported middle-class lives for the working class, were moving out of the area or shutting down in industrial restructuring, including ...