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Foto Friday

August 13, 2010

tags: modern, National Products Building, Old City, Philadelphia, recent past

And I’ll share this bickerfest from 2006 about preservation vs. replacement of the building’s facade tiles. You’ve seen it all before, complete with nothing but “anonymous” signed to the comments. (And no, as of this moment I don’t know how Tilegate was resolved.)

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liv permalink

August 13, 2010 10:54 am

Love that font. It’s fun…

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Anne Fontaine permalink

August 13, 2010 11:10 am

This reminds me of a grade school discovery: we would put a ruler along the copybook lines as we wrote and it automatically flattened the bottoms of the letters. We were junior typographers and we had no idea!

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