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Savesies | Scene Through the Lens

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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.
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:

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