Results tagged “veterans”

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Today I will discuss what may be the smallest (and loneliest) park ever. It's Grable Post, located smack in the middle of the intersection of Moyamensing Avenue, 3rd Street, and Reed Street in South Philadelphia. As its name suggests, Grable Post is a post—a flag pole bearing the US and POW-MIA flags with a wall and small garden box built in honor of veterans. I had walked by the park countless times and never really noticed it until I saw it listed on the Department of Parks and Recreation's website as a park (there's also a much better picture there). That said, I've never seen anyone spending time by the post, unless they were waiting for the 57 bus which rolls down Moyamensing. When I went to get a closer look at it and to see what its story was, I was dismayed to find that the light blue chain link fence surrounding it was locked. Perhaps there was a problem with vandalism in the past. It was difficult to really immerse myself into the park when I had to stand by and lean over a fence, scribbling notes on a piece of paper.