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Philadelphia Top 10 Lists. Dalessandro's, 600 Wendover Avenue. Jim's Steaks, 400 South Street. Rick's Philly Steaks, Reading Terminal Market. Cosmi's Deli, 1501 South 8th Street. Swann Lounge at Four Seasons, 1 Logan Place. Tony Luke's, 39 East Oregon Avenue. Dolce Carini, 1929 Chestnut Street. Lazaro's, 1743 South Street. Talk of the Town, 3020 S. Broad Street. Sonny's, 228 Market Street. Top 10 Philly Songs. EXPRESSWAY TO YOUR HEART, Soul Survivors. SHE'S GONE, Hall and Oates. LOVE TRAIN, O'Jays. Top 1...

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Looking for the Heart. Personally, it helped clear up a few things. I always thought you fucked up my life because you were raised in an orphanage. Now I know it's because the orphanage was in Philadelphia. - Marin Buschel, author's son. Like the Phillies,. Will give you great joy and then break your heart. - Steven Levy, Newsweek writer. Is a 13-mile journey filled with personal insights, a joyous overview, and a Marx Brothers attitude. - Robert Downey, filmmaker. Interviews with quirky Philadelphia cha...

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ONE HALF OF THE SIMON and SCHUSTER PUBLICITY QUESTIONNAIRE. 1) Author’s full name: BRUCE BUSCHEL. 2) Author’s name as it should appear on the book: NORMAN MAILER. 3) Title of Book; WALKING BROAD (LOOKING FOR THE HEART OF BROTHERLY LOVE). 4) Name of agent: FLIP BROPHY, LORD LITERISTIC INC. 5) Place and Date of birth: PHILADELPHIA, USA, 4-17-47. 6) Please indicate the name(s) of your spouse and children if applicable: IF APPLICABLE TO WHAT? 11) Do you have any connections in Canada? 13) List your previousl...

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Broad Street is the longest straight street in America. At least that's what Philadelphians tell their children. That's what they told Bruce Buschel after he was born on Broad Street and his father died. On Broad Street and his mother worked at a nightclub on Broad Street. But it is the sagging spine of his dear Philadelphia. Then came 9/11, and Americans were magically drawn to Philly's authenticity and history. The city is in flux. Happily depressed locals are trying to adjust to Funkydelphia.

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I love and hate Philadelphia more than any place I know, which is the basis of a meaningful relationship, I suppose, Bruce Buschel writes. I don’t love it because I lived here. I love it because it lives in me. That sentiment propelled Mr. Buschel to return to the city of his youth to walk the 13 miles of its Broad Street, taking the measure of everything and everyone in his path. Why Broad? Mr Buschel calls Philly the Taint ’tain’t the Big Apple, ’tain’t the nation’s capital, is rather an overgrown no w...

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Looking for the Heart. Personally, it helped clear up a few things. I always thought you fucked up my life because you were raised in an orphanage. Now I know it's because the orphanage was in Philadelphia. - Marin Buschel, author's son. Like the Phillies,. Will give you great joy and then break your heart. - Steven Levy, Newsweek writer. Is a 13-mile journey filled with personal insights, a joyous overview, and a Marx Brothers attitude. - Robert Downey, filmmaker. Interviews with quirky Philadelphia cha...

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AT THE CORNER OF BROAD AND CHESTNUT. A couple is looking up at the street sign, and then at each other, and then back at the street sign and then back at each other. Bewildered, they look around the intersection until one turns to the other and asks, What the hell happened to 14th Street? This is it, I interject. This is 14th Street. This is Broad Street, says the missus. Broad Street is 14th Street, I say. Then the Schuylkill River. We call it center city. It's 10 blocks by 25 blocks. Cozy, huh? My cous...