Re: [UC] FYI, West Philly = Sarajevo, According to the AP

[Mark Krull]

Face it the local news is crap!!

-Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Feb 18, 2005 9:04 PM
To: univcity@list.purple.com
Subject: Re: [UC] FYI, West Philly = Sarajevo, According to the AP

Cobbs Creek, the neighborhood (as opposed to Cobbs Creek, the waterway) lies between 52nd Street and the city limits at the creek of that ilk. It is University City's immediate neighbor to the west. Its northern boundary is Market Street and its southern boundary is Baltimore Avenue. It contains some beat-up blocks, lots of perfectly decent petty-bourgeois Philly rowhouse blocks, and a few nicer houses alongside the park. There isn't a speck of it that's as bad as Mantua, say, or North Central, or large strips of canonically cutesy South Philly. Wilson Goode lived in Cobbs Creek while he was mayor, and he could have afforded to live anywhere.

 

Cobbs Creek became almost entirely Black around the '50s, which I suspect was the SOLE reason the AP twit "found the living conditions there appalling." Invariably -- you can win bets in bars with this one -- inexperienced suburban whites perceive any urban streetscape with Black faces as appalling. And they are entirely unaware that is what they are reacting to.

 

Cobbs Creek (the neighborhood) is part of West Philly. West Philly includes everything between Cobbs Creek (the creek), City Line Ave., the Schuylkill River, the VA Hospital, and Baltimore Ave.

 

Print journalists may be better at neighborhood-defining. Broadcast journalists, and some photojournalists too, tend to be image-obsessed airheads with zero sense of social geography. Most of them couldn't tell St. Mark's Square, West Philly from St. Mark's Square, Venice, and they rely on their van driver to tell them where they are while they adjust their makeup. (Their producers, of course, are entirely different!) It is quite comical to watch the roving action newsreaders on local newscasts try to apply neighborhood names to the intersections they have been dispatched to. Oftentimes they're off by miles.

 

-- Tony West

 I'm not sure where Cobbs
Creek is,

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