The Bells of St. Ed’s: Neighborhood Life in 1950s Philadelphia
St. Peter the Apostle Roman Catholic Church 1019 North 5th Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesA personal and historical presentation of 1950's working class Philadelphia street culture. Not to be missed!What was it like--really like--to grow up Catholic in the blue collar, North Philly neighborhood of Hartranft in the 1950s? It sure wasn’t Leave it to Beaver, or Happy Days or sock hops and doo wop or any of the other cultural tropes that dominate our understanding of the decade.The neighborhood still hummed with industry; there were tanneries, machine shops and textile mills, along with the massive factory complexes of the Stetson Hat Company and the Schmidt’s Brewery. St. Edward the Confessor, at 8th and