A weekly visual exploration of the Philadelphia region
October 10, 2022: Pastor Jean Bellevue puts out chairs as “savesies” to hold a parking space before a state-wide political candidate arrived for a roundtable talk and evening services at Kingdom Empowerment International Ministries in Mayfair.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
I’ve been a Philadelphian for a while now. This is not my first encounter with savesies:
And you heard it here first. Winter’s coming.
(The savesies outside the Mayfair church above were for Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate Mehmet Oz.)
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 3, 2022: Alex Hiznay and Gabby Rybicki (right) play some one-on-one. Hiznay has been kicking the soccer ball on Independence Mall all summer with friends,
but this is the first time with Rybicki (they’re dating). He likes the location, with lots of nearby watering spots. “It’s great after working up a little
sweat.” They never hold large games there so they don’t disrupt tourists. Plus, he says, the small goal makes it more about ball control “and finesse.”Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
September 26, 2022: The sun sets behind Philadelphia on the Ben Franklin Bridge, entering the time of year photographers look forward to for its long shadows.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
September 19, 2022: Donna Smith pauses on South Street at Broad, just before getting on the SEPTA Route 40 bus. Asked about her outfit, she replied, “It’s called color coordinating.” Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
September 12, 2022: Jim Glatz, a retired Cherry Hill Police Department captain, joins others placing 2,977 flags to honor the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks along the intersection of Springdale and Kresson Roads in Cherry Hill.
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September 5, 2022: An eight-foot-tall roadside attraction is one of many outside outlets of the chicken-serving, Baltimore-based convenience store/gas station chain Royal Farms. It has been expanding into our region in recent years. This one is on the Black Horse Pike in Bellmawr. Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
August 29, 2022: Merchants close up their tent as a light rain begins to fall at a street fair in Collingswood.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
August 22. 2022: The remnants of a celebration remain in a University City parking garage after the participants have departed.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
August 15, 2022: And in the category, Most Creative Do-it-Yourself Side View Mirror Replacement, the award goes to… (seen along Pine Street in Society Hill)Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
August 8, 2022: The setting sun reflects off the glass of Cira Centre South, behind the trees of the rooftop urban park Cira Green.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
August 1, 2022: Workers change out a large billboard on the facade of Market Street East’s Fashion District Philadelphia.
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July 25, 2022: Friends Ari Laver (left), 9, and Sam Palley, 6, don't let a water ice break stop them from trading baseball cards at John's Water Ice. They were there with Ari's little sister, Nadia, 6, and their mothers, Julie Palley and Lauren Laver.
Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
July 18, 2022: Music lovers attending one of the summer's free concerts listen from the hill overlooking Rose Tree Park's outdoor amphitheater, a popular Delco tradition for more than four decades.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
July 11, 2022: A shade awning in Spruce Street Harbor Park hoovers near the USS Olympia on Penn’s Landing. The cruiser saw service from 1895 until 1922, and is the sole floating survivor of the U.S. Navy's Spanish–American War fleet. Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
July 4, 2022: Surrounded by reflections in the glass, a pair of red and white-striped, blue-starred boxing shorts is displayed on a Rocky mannequin in the window of the Independence Visitor Center gift shop. Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
June 27, 2022: Shafts of early-summer sunlight shine in the evening at the A.W. Christy Rec Center in West Philadelphia as youngsters play in the Eugene Broadwater 3-on-3 basketball tournament. The tourney is named for a beloved recreation leader there who died in 2019.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
