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John F. Betz & Sons, Philadelphia, founded in 1775 as the Robert Hare & J. Warren Peter Brewery, closed in 1939 Point Brewery, Fort Pitt , founded by James O'Hara in 1803 on the site of a smaller, pre-existing brewery that had been in existence since at least 1795; [ 7 ] [ 8 ] closed in 1860 [ 9 ]
Philly Beer Week is the largest beer celebration in the United States, and its successful model has been copied by over 100 other cities worldwide. [2] The organization was founded in 2007 by a group of local beer enthusiasts, bar owners, brewers, distributors and others.
Schaefer, a regional brewer that was based in New York, had expanded into the Philadelphia area in the mid-1960s and by 1978 was the top-selling beer in the Philadelphia market. [46] In the early 1970s, Schaefer spent $70 million in three stages to build a five million barrel brewery in Fogelsville, Pennsylvania , that was considered to be the ...
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Bassett's Ice Cream at Reading Terminal Market Harry Ochs Original Harry Ochs meat stand. Open-air markets have flourished in Philadelphia since its founding. Growth of the city demanded more markets, and the string of open-air markets extending from the Delaware River ran for six blocks, or one full mile, prompting the main street (then called 'High Street') to be renamed 'Market Street' in ...
Philadelphia Brewing was founded in July 2007 by William Barton, Nancy Barton and James McBride. It is located in the original 1885 building of the Weisbrod & Hess Oriental Brewing Company, which operated on the site until 1939.
At its peak, 700 breweries operated across Philadelphia, several in a ten-block area of Brewerytown. With the collapse of local industry later in the 20th century, originally started by the implementation of Prohibition in the United States , and later beer production moving primarily to the Midwest , no brewer was operating in that ...
The Strawbridge & Clothier "Seal of Quality" logo sign from the Market Street Store - Presented to McGillin's by Peter Strawbridge, the founder's great-grandson. [3] Lit Brothers Department Store tiled subway sign; F.W. Woolworth's tiled subway sign indicating the defunct Market Street store; A Corestates Financial Group sign; A Le Bec Fin sign