JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for June 05, 2021

I remember PGH. Then the City decided it didn’t want to be in the hospital business anymore.

You mean, it got Rick- rolled?

Looking at the first panel, young Marcie looks like Sunny…

Marcie looked a lot like Sunny.

Sunny looks so much like her mother

Torn down back in 1977, principally because it couldn’t be economically brought up to changing fire and safety codes https://web.archive.org/web/20020603003959/http://www.phila.gov/health/history/parts/part_5.htm

Love the backstory Mr Armstrong.

Yep. I sure am! I, for one, really like to hear people’s stories. Never had a dull one yet. And some are so incredibly beautiful, heroic, stunning…or just plain awesome.

She just has no hope in poor Rick.

In 1902, the Blockley Almshouse was officially renamed the Philadelphia General Hospital (PGH). Before the First World War, its almshouse services for the indigent poor and its “lunatic asylum” were transferred to public institutions in the City’s northeast section. “PGH began to focus exclusively on providing health care,” writes the historian Lisa Levinstein. “In addition to City employees and other special cases, PGH only admitted medically indigent patients, treating one-third of all patients in the City who could not afford to pay for their care.”

For the full article, see:

https://collaborativehistory.gse.upenn.edu/stories/transforming-%E2%80%9Cold-blockley%E2%80%9D-philadelphia-general-hospital

Are Marci and Joe both only children? I don’t recall Joe having any siblings.

I was born in that hospital in 68. It was torn down not long after. My mom told me the hospital had mouse traps set up. It needed to be torn down.