ISO: Native Philadelphian or Philadelphyte!

Factual Questions
1

What hundred block would I be at if I were standing on Vista St at Vista and Edmund?

Thanks,
Jinx

2

We prefer “Philadelphian.”

Amazingly, you picked an intersection less than 2 blocks from where I grew up, and my mother still lives!!! :eek: :smiley:

It’s in the lower Northeast, the Mayfair-Holmesburg neighborhoods.

You’d be, IIRC, on the 4100 block of Vista west of Edmund & 4300 block on the east side of the street. Owing to the generally snafued numbering and other systems of NE Philly (almost all of which is too far east to be in the orderly William Penn grid of Center City), pretty much all of the east-west streets (Vista is one) in the immediate neighborhood are missing 4200 blocks. The big weirdness is that Frankford Ave. seperates the 3500 and 4000 blocks of those same streets, 3600-3900 simply not existing!

Is this someone I know jerking me around?! Otherwise, a hell of a coincidence I can answer this!

3

Hey, I’m looking for a business near that corner, IIRC, that tests HVAC equipment to make sure it performs as claimed. But, I can’t recall the name of the company!

Thanks for your help…

  • Jinx
4

twitch

As a former Philadalpia cab driver, I want to say thank you very much. I’ll have nightmares tonight from remembering what it was like trying to find my way around Northeast.

Center City was so nice.

twitch

5

:stuck_out_tongue: True, everything from Fishtown & above - you either grew up there or you’re lost…

That corner itself is, again IIRC, all rowhomes (the whole neighborhood is) & isn’t commercially zoned. The only businesses on Edmund right near there are little converted corner delis in the basement of rowhomes; I don’t think there’s any business right on that corner, but I haven’t lived there in several yrs. The only businesses on Vista I recall are on the commercially zoned streets Frankord Ave. (2 blocks west of the intersection) or Torresdale Ave. (3-4 blocks east). Torresdale is more industrial, & seems more likely to me. I don’t recall anything that you’re describing. Is it a big place? On a corner? If it has a parking lot, or is larger than would fit in someone’ basement, it’s probably on Torresdale or Frankford. Vista & Edmund are both one-way streets, one lane. The 2 avenues I keep mentioning are much larger - two lanes in either direction. And, yknow, commercial, less residential.