Sunday, October 20, 2013
Gentrification
Ben and I have been on a bit of a John Landis kick lately, so we just watched Trading Places. We didn't realize it was set in Philadelphia, so we had fun identifying all the Philly landmarks in the background of various scenes. We had to laugh, though, when Dan Aykroyd goes home with the prostitute to her rough neighborhood...
...and she lives at 12th and South. That's about four blocks from where we currently live, and that corner is currently home to a Whole Foods and a Starbucks. A lot has changed in the three decades since 1983...
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that's funny. also, have you heard the Planet Money episode about Trading Places? it doesn't mention Philadelphia, but I thought it was interesting :)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/07/09/200401407/episode-471-the-eddie-murphy-rule
Woah! We just listened to it - we were also pretty confused about what happened at the end, and now we finally understand it!
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