John F. Kennedy Stadium (Philadelphia)
John F. Kennedy Stadium, formerly Philadelphia Municipal Stadium and Sesquicentennial Stadium, was an open-air stadium in Philadelphia that stood from 1926 to 1992. The South Philadelphia stadium was on the east side of the far southern end of Broad Street at a location now part of the South Philadelphia Sports Complex. Designed by the architectural firm of Simon & Simon in a classic 1920s style with a horseshoe seating design that surrounded a track and football field, at its peak the facility seated in excess of 102,000 people. Bleachers were later added at the open (North) end. The shape of the stadium resembles the horseshoe configuration of Harvard Stadium built in 1903.
Philadelphia Municipal Stadium in 1927
Pennsylvania Railroad trains lined up at a temporary station outside the stadium after the 1955 Army-Navy Game
JFK Stadium holding one of Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! concerts on September 19, 1988
South Philadelphia, nicknamed South Philly, is the section of Philadelphia bounded by South Street to the north, the Delaware River to the east and south, and the Schuylkill River to the west. A diverse working-class community of many neighborhoods, South Philadelphia is well-known for its large Italian-American population, but it also contains large Asian American, Irish-American, African-American, and Latino populations.
South Philadelphia as seen from the One Liberty Observation Deck in May 2017
Gloria Dei Church
A factory converted into lofts in Lower Moyamensing
Row housing in South Philly, 2004