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History. Kiddie City Toy Stores were started around 1957 in Philadelphia as toy supermarkets. By the early 1970s, Lionel had purchased the chain and grew it to 150 stores, under the names Lionel Kiddie City, Lionel Playworld, and Lionel Toy Warehouse (rebranded as Lionel Kiddie City in 1990). For a time it was the second-largest toy store chain ...
Shriners Children's is a network of non-profit medical facilities across North America. Children with orthopaedic conditions, burns, spinal cord injuries, and cleft lip and palate are eligible for care and receive all services in a family-centered environment, regardless of the patients' ability to pay. Care for children is usually provided ...
Sesame Place Philadelphia. / 40.18500°N 74.87194°W / 40.18500; -74.87194. Sesame Place Philadelphia is a children's theme park and water park based on the children's educational television program Sesame Street. It is one of the twelve Sesame Place theme parks owned and operated by United Parks & Resorts under an exclusive license ...
The School District of Philadelphia ( SDP) is the school district that includes all school district-operated public schools in Philadelphia. [9] Established in 1818, it is largest school district in Pennsylvania and the eighth-largest school district in the nation, serving over 197,000 students as of 2022. [10]
Rocky Steps. Coordinates: 39°57′54″N 75°10′49″W. Video of Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa running up the front steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia in Rocky in 1976; the iconic scene gave birth to the steps' notoriety and popularity. The front entrance and steps to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Strawbridge's. Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, and housewares. Strawbridge's, formerly Strawbridge & Clothier, was a department store in the northeastern United States, with stores in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. The Center City Philadelphia flagship store was, in its day, a gracious urban emporium.
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. / 39.948; -75.194. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, also known by its acronym CHOP, is a children's hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its primary campus is located in the University City neighborhood of West Philadelphia on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia, commonly referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia is the nation's sixth-most populous city, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census and is the urban core of the larger Delaware Valley (or Philadelphia metropolitan area), the nation's seventh-largest and one of the world's largest metropolitan regions consisting of ...