Inquirer staff photographer Tom Gralish’s weekly visual exploration of our region
October 25, 2021: Juxtaposed signs score a bull's-eye in the shared parking lot of a national retailer and local craft brewery in Northern Liberties.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
While a popular Eagle just moved from a 2-5 team to a 7-0 one, and the Sixers not-yet-former player still isn’t playing, my favorite local athlete is finishing her professional career. Carli Lloyd will play her last game with the U.S. Women’s National Team tomorrow against South Korea. Then, she plays her last regular-season National Women’s Soccer League game on Sunday, and if her team, Gotham FC fails to advance to the playoffs, that’s it.
I never actually photographed her in a game. But I was there in a sports bar with fans in her hometown of Delran, N.J. when she scored a hat-trick in the 5—2 U.S. win over Japan in the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup Final. That third goal was the one she scored from the midfield line!
A few years before that game, I watched her practice with longtime trainer, James Galanis.
And even before that, Delran gave her a small-town send-off, on her way to the 2008 Olympics, where she would score the winning goal in the gold medal game. At the local ice cream parlor, they named a flavor for her: Carli’s Cake Batter Cookie Dough Kick. The mayor gave Lloyd a key to the community and announced that some soccer fields would be named for her.
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You would expect there would be many young girl fans lined up for Lloyd’s autograph on jerseys and soccer balls, but the Delran High School boys soccer team was also there, and a little starstruck as they posed with her for a group photo.
No player in the history of international soccer has scored more goals after her 30th birthday than Lloyd. Since turning 30, she has scored 98 goals in 179 games over a span of a little less than nine and-a-half years.
That’s a lot of bull’s-eyes.
Since 1998, a black-and-white photo has appeared every Monday in staff photographer Tom Gralish’s “Scene Through the Lens” photo column in The Inquirer’s local news section. Here are the most recent, in color:
October 18, 2021: Dan Lanzilloti walks north on South Broad Street to his home in South Philly after participating in the Broad Street Run last Sunday. He ran with a unicorn head and two portable "companions" (all in his bag) and a sweatshirt reading, “Men of quality do not fear equality.” He finished 11175th overall, with a time of 2:57:27, but entertained runners along the way saying, “Too much love is never too much.”Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
October 11, 2021: Paulo Carminati carries a keyboard into St. Paul's Church in Stone Harbor to join his choir, Coro Mundi, as it holds its first in-person rehearsal since the coronavirus pandemic.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
October 4, 2021: A 1950s Dodge Meadowbrook is parked near Front and Main Streets in Camden. The Meadowbrook was introduced in 1949 to be the mid-range car in the Dodge line. By 1952 the entry-level Wayfarer was discontinued, making the Meadowbrook the cheapest car in the Dodge line.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
September 27, 2021: Pigeons take flight along Buttonwood Street. A bird lover had just dropped some seed along the sidewalk near Broad Street.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
September 20, 2021: There is action in miniature at the Soccer 2026 Pitch at the visitors center at Independence National Historical Park. It is part of Philadelphia's bid to be chosen as one of 10 cities to host matches when the FIFA World Cup comes to the United States in 2026. Philadelphia Soccer 2026 welcomes the public to play and contribute their own memories to the exhibit (rear) and "show FIFA and U.S. Soccer the passion of the local soccer community."Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
August 13, 2021: Ophelia Santo and Nicole Nunez, 4, in downtown Coatesville. Nicole’s mother operates a hair salon on Lincoln Avenue, the main street through town. Santo is a family friend.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
September 6, 2021: The time - 9:03:02 A.M. - that United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into Tower Two (the South Tower) of the World Trade Center is embedded in the walkway at the Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville, Pa. Four time line markers chronicle the exact moment each of the four hijacked aircraft crashed on 9/11.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
August 30, 2021: Smoking, food, bikes or pets are not allowed on the hallowed grounds of the Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville, Pa. "No Photography" signs are also posted inside the Visitor Center and gift shop. But not for the reason you might expect. It's because some of the images in the permanent exhibit space where the hijacked plane crashed on Sept. 11, 2001 are copyrighted, and cannot be reproduced.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
August 23, 2021: A scene along the salt marshes and small inlets in Port Republic, Atlantic County, where the Mullica River flows into Great Bay. The area is not far from the monument marking the location of the Battle of Chestnut Neck, one of the stops along the 130-mile Pinelands National Scenic Byway designated earlier this year.Read moreTOM GRALISH / TOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
August 16, 2021: Delores and Novic - they didn’t want to give last names, saying, “What happens in AC stays in AC" - avoid the beach, preferring to sit in the shade of the casinos on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
August 9, 2021: Lill Hayes does a wheelie along the Boardwalk in Atlantic City.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
August 2, 2021: Chris Coger (left) on Shadow and Malik Divers astride Big Sunny ride in Clark Park in West Philadelphia. Divers rides out of the brand-new Concrete Cowboys stables at Bartram's Garden. (He coined the term for his horse-riding program more than a decade ago, before the Idris Elba movie that took the same title rather than use that of the book, "Ghetto Cowboy," it was based on.)Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
July 26, 2021: A relatively recent addition to the Fashion District and Center City skyline (seen from the Philadelphia Bus Terminal, in the 1000 block of Filbert Street) a large tenpin joins City Hall (right, completed in 1901) and One Liberty Place (center, completed in 1987).Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
July 19, 2021: The beach in Atlantic City on a midweek July afternoon.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
July 12, 2021: A newly installed oversized police badge is visible in the lobby of the former Inquirer and Daily News Building on North Broad Street. The 18-story Beaux-Arts-style skyscraper is being renovated to become the new headquarters of the Philadelphia Police Department. The newspapers and Inquirer.com moved into offices in the former Strawbridge & Clothier department store at Eighth and Market Streets nine years ago last week.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
