{"id":2918,"date":"2012-08-02T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phillyhistory.wpengine.com\/?p=2918"},"modified":"2014-05-01T17:24:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T21:24:39","slug":"photo-gallery-dilworth-plaza-through-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/2012\/08\/photo-gallery-dilworth-plaza-through-the-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Gallery: Dilworth Plaza through the years"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a> Former Mayor Richardson Dilworth (1956-1962) in 1957. Dilworth died
\nin 1974, three years before Dilworth Plaza was completed.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Dilworth Plaza is currently a hollowed-out pit of fenced-in concrete on the west side of City Hall, but soon it should be so much more. Center City District’s plans for the new plaza<\/a> are modern, chic and supposedly practical in a way that the original construction, which took more than a decade and spurned plenty of controversy<\/a>, was not.<\/p>\n

You can see an EarthCam photo of Dilworth Plaza’s progress here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But even before Dilworth Plaza was named for the man on the left, former Mayor Richardson Dilworth, the location had served a wide range of purposes throughout the years. Until construction began earlier this year, the plaza was most recently made nationally famous as the site for Philadelphia’s Occupy Protests.<\/p>\n

While we anticipate what the new Plaza will do for Center City, let’s take a brief photo tour of the purposes the space has served in the past.<\/p>\n

Dilworth Plaza Photo Tour<\/h2>\n

2002<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A pre-event for Take our Daughters to Work Day in Dilworth Plaza.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

1981<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A show of Christmas festivity on Dilworth Plaza in 1981.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

1971<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nRedevelopment of Market Street including a view of the construction at Dilworth Plaza.<\/span><\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>A second view of the redevelopment and construction progress.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

1960<\/p>\n

\"\" <\/a>Two photos (above and below) of a 1961 car crash that occurred right on the spot that would become Dilworth Plaza.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n

1959<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A shot of the Department of Streets booth during Employees Week in 1959 on what would become Dilworth Plaza.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>A shot of the Fairmount Parks Commission booth during Employees Week in 1959 the eventual Dilworth Plaza.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>A look at the City Commissioners Employee Week booth.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

1938<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>An indirect view of the western side of City Hall which would one day be Dilworth Plaza.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

1903<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A 1903 view from the west side of City Hall, which would eventually become Dilworth Plaza.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Mayor Richardson Dilworth (1956-1962) in 1957. Dilworth died in 1974, three years before Dilworth Plaza was completed. Dilworth Plaza is currently a hollowed-out pit of fenced-in concrete on the west side of City Hall, but soon it should be so much more. Center City District’s plans for the new plaza are modern, chic and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snapshots-of-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}