Wharton Trolley Tour

To cap off the first week of Pre-Term, we joined a couple hundred other Wharton students and significant others on a trolley tour of the noteworthy sites around central Philadelphia. We primarily rode through Center City (where we live), the museum district, Fairmount Park, and Old City. One interesting thing we learned is that the city mandates that 1% of any publicly-funded building project must be allocated to public art.



Our bus driver, shown below, was great about pointing out all of the obvious as well as hidden treasures around the city including the first prison in the country, first hospital, location of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, church where many of the Founding Fathers worshipped, a famous prohibition bar (Dirty Frank's), the first bank in America, and the first church owned by African Americans.



Here we are on a stop at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.



You may recognize the steps leading up to the museum from the movie "Rocky".



You can see the rest of the photos from our tour in our photo album here:

http://calmarty.smugmug.com/gallery/711894