thespiff

thespiff t1_j2fga3c wrote

Yeah it’s a marathon of Philly campiness and debauchery. I would recommend you plan other activities such as meals and then check out the parade in between.

As another poster noted, the fancy brigades are gonna be the closest thing you get to a real parade. A lot of the other brigades are honestly just an excuse for bro’s to dress in silly outfits and get wasted in public. I’m talking about the actual parade participants not the spectators. Although they are generally drunk too.

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thespiff t1_iwg5law wrote

You’re at least partially right. I have a dream of owning a bar/venue one day but it never occurred to me until now that this could have been the spot. And I just drove by it a week ago and noted it’s still closed. (I got detoured past it due to the trolley construction on Girard.)

Where you are wrong is that if it were an active music venue now, I would go to shows there. With that and Boot & Saddle gone, last small venue we’ve got seems to be Johnny Brenda’s. And first Unitarian I guess.

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