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Old 05-04-2015, 07:04 AM
 
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Maybe someone will report on how things turned out for Birdie.
He's dead. Died a couple of years ago. Some kind of weird drowning.
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Old 05-04-2015, 07:07 AM
 
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It wouldn't be good for Philadelphia to pretend it never happened. For better or for worse, it happened and it will forever be a part of the city's history. It definitely should be remembered from a "how can we prevent this from reoccuring?" standpoint. Especially since social unrest in the news today.
There seems to be a lot of amnesia about it, though, particularly among younger people.
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Old 05-04-2015, 07:16 AM
 
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Really? When I guess that Liberty Place news was overshadowed by the Move Fire because it destroyed an entire neighborhood.
Of course we could talk a lot about the continuing mess of trying to rebuild the houses on Osage and Pine Sts with COMPLETELY sub-standard materials and the TOTAL incompetence of the Wilson Goode administration all around.
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Old 05-04-2015, 07:17 AM
 
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Yeah my mom told me about the 1978 Move situation with the Police on 32nd and Powelton.
That MOVE house was torn immediately afterward.
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Old 05-04-2015, 07:22 AM
 
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I don't remember the news spending too much time on the Move story during the 20th anniversary in 2005. Not sure how the local news covered the 10th Anniversary of Move in 1995 because I was living in Hartford, Connecticut.
There will be some mention of it I'm sure. But as it recedes into history it will simply fade. Only Ramona Africa is left from the 1985 MOVE group,afaik. I used to see her around Clark Park but I haven't seen her in years. She's got to be about 60 years old by now.
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Old 05-04-2015, 10:08 AM
 
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Can anyone tell me if Delbert might have spent some time at Penn State back around 1970-72? I was a grad student at the time and the name "Delbert Orr" seems to ring a bell, though I can't link it to anything specific. He would be about the right age.
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Old 05-04-2015, 10:15 AM
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There will be some mention of it I'm sure. But as it recedes into history it will simply fade. Only Ramona Africa is left from the 1985 MOVE group,afaik. I used to see her around Clark Park but I haven't seen her in years. She's got to be about 60 years old by now.
When did the 32nd and Powelton start to change? It's all Drexel now when you travel through that section of the city.
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Old 05-04-2015, 11:33 AM
 
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When did the 32nd and Powelton start to change? It's all Drexel now when you travel through that section of the city.
I went to college with a girl who had lived around 34th St in Powelton Village all of her life. Some of the housing in Powelton Village was subdivided into apartments for students from Drexel & U of P back then.

People in Powelton Village were distraught over what MOVE was doing to their neighborhood with good reason.
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Old 05-04-2015, 11:35 AM
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Change?

I went to college with a girl who had lived around 34th St in Powelton Village all of her life. Some of the housing in Powelton Village was subdivided into apartments for students from Drexel & U of P back then.


The area looked all black in 1978 based on what I saw in the video.
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Old 05-04-2015, 11:39 AM
 
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The area looked all black in 1978 based on what I saw in the video.
I know from visiting apartments there between 69 & 73 that Powelton Village was mixed.
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