Philadelphia And Vicinity, November 26-28, 2010

Victory Brewing Company in Downingtown, which is making some of the best beer in the region (including Brooklyn Brewery? Maybe!):

I read that they were starting to poke holes in the Spectrum, but when we went by there, it was just one lousy hole — one of those ceremonial jabs at a building’s facade. Not sure how much more progress they’ve made on demolishing the place:

SEPTA sold the naming rights of the Broad Street subway line station at Pattison Avenue to AT&T:

I might feel a little disappointed if I visited Philadelphia and saw Independence Hall with a trompe l’oeil top. Some enterprising artist should do something similar to a building like, say, the Chrysler Building — it’d be hilarious:

The new National Museum of American Jewish History has opened just off of Independence Mall:

Lancaster Avenue in West Philadelphia: