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Loop History
Topic Started: Dec 29 2008, 08:43 PM (684 Views)
idpated
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Friend of mine called me tonight about Gregg Loop up off Frankford ave. He also sent me a picture of the loop from long ago showing a trolley entering the loop.

Thing that is confusing him is that he cannot find a Gregg Street on a current Philadelphia Map. Was there a Greg street there or was Gregg the name of a local business or other attraction?

Thanks,

Ted
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TheOneCalledA1
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http://www.septa.com/service/sched/pdfs/bus_41_80/066.pdf
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=Frankford+Transportation+Center,+Philadelphia+PA&daddr=40.053877,+-75.005660&hl=en&geocode=&mra=ls&sll=40.053905,-75.005725&sspn=0.001413,0.002414&ie=UTF8&ll=40.039181,-75.033274&spn=0.04521,0.077248&t=h&z=14

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Gregg+Street+Philadelphia+PA&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title

There is Gregg Street.
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idpated
Dec 29 2008, 08:43 PM
Friend of mine called me tonight about Gregg Loop up off Frankford ave. He also sent me a picture of the loop from long ago showing a trolley entering the loop.

Thing that is confusing him is that he cannot find a Gregg Street on a current Philadelphia Map. Was there a Greg street there or was Gregg the name of a local business or other attraction?

Thanks,

Ted
There are many 'paper' streets in the city. They do not exist physically but are on the city's maps as rights-of-way that are controlled by the city and could be constructed as physical streets at some point. Gregg St might have been the planned street at this point when the loop was originally built but the street itself was never constructed or even taken off the plan for some reason.
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The area around & above the Gregg Street loop was sparsely populated up until the early 1950s(1950-1952), when housing went up in set sections of the Torresdale section of Northeast Philadelphia(the part of the 66 running from Linden to Grant, from the golf course to the Delaware River). Some of the houses in the Torresdale section have been up since the 18th century.

The outer end of the 66(along Frankford, from Holy Family College to Hegerman Street) & all up in there is also labeled as the Torresdale section.
These homes along these set blocks(Brook, Avner, Stevenson, Constance, Carteret, Rowena, Hegerman, Lyman, Lorry, Garvey, Lackland, St Denis) went up either in the mid 1960s or early 1970s. Up until then, this was mainly land & field.

The area to the west of Frankford Avenue along Morrell Avenue is known as the Morrell Park section of Northest Philadelphia(served by the current 20 via Academy, Morrell, East Keswick & the current 84 via Frankford, Morrell, East Keswick). This area went up in the late 1950s through the middle 1960s.

The 20 & 67 pass through a community called Modena(Red Lion, East Keswick & Chalfont) & this community went up in the mid 1960s.

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