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Anderson Yards: The Neighborhood Name With An Added Dose Of Righteous Indignation
Anyone who’s worked at a newspaper knows the importance of putting out an honest product. Usually this means just doing good reporting and considering all the facts. In some cases, this means adding “balance” to the paper by letting one op-ed columnist attack another or printing right- and/or left-wing bullshit. And then there’s yesterday in the Inquirer, where the biz section ran a story on Will Do fave Brad Maule and his website, Phillyskyline. Perhaps nodding to Maule’s part in the popularization of G-Ho, the Inky also ran this op-ed piece from someone who really hates the name G-Ho. Jeremiah Scalia wants to call the neighborhood Anderson Yards, after Marian Anderson, the famous singer born in the neighborhood. He says nobody has a name for the neighborhood, even though he later writes many people are familiar with G-Ho. Anderson Yards is also the name of the ballfield on Fitzwater. It’s actually a pretty good name, and it was made in exactly the same way as G-Ho: Scalia and his friends came up with it! (They even have, uhm, a Friendster page.)
Ahh, I see that stupid people are moving into the neighborhood, ones who somehow don’t know who Marian Anderson is. But, hey, you know what sounds better than G-Ho? Gentrification Ho! Aw, man, that’d be a great name for the neighborhood. Gentrification Hoooooooo! Eyes on the city’s skyline [Inquirer] |
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G-ho is three distinct neighborhoods that are already named… including OMG GRAYS FERRY–but the carpet baggers heard of grays ferry so the real estate people call it g-ho.
I do agree though.. it might as well stand for gentrification. I hope the people moving in all get shot by their “off the beaten path and quaint” neighborhood’s crack dealers at 23rd and Christian.
I like gentrification whores… they’re the artsy suburban types trying to pay the rent, right?
Although Gentrification Ho! is a great name for any trendy Philly neighborhood, a major problem with the name G-Ho is that the hospital is no longer Graduate Hospital since Penn bought it earlier this year. Currently, Penn is calling it the “18th street campus” for lack of a better name. Also, clearly all neighborhoods need their own friendster pages.
Chrissmari brings up a good point. I’ve never been clear about where “G-Ho” ends and Grays Ferry begins. Or is it one and the same? Did new people just move in and get rid of the name because of its reputation? I don’t get it.
And also, why is G-Ho popular? It just smacks of laziness, the kind of laziness that gave us nicknames like “T-Mac,” “J-Roll” and “A-Rod.” Can’t we come up with something better than just shortening a couple of words?
“Can’t we come up with something better than just shortening a couple of words?”
Clearly, no.
Sincerely,
D-Mac
hey geniuses, just because grays ferry avenue passes through the neighborhood, it doesn’t make the neighborhood grays ferry, just like northern liberties isn’t called fairmount even though fairmount ave runs right through it.
the neighborhood called grays ferry is south and west of g-ho, bound by grays ferry ave on the north, the schuylkill expressway on the west and south, and the 25th street viaduct on the east.
every time some new round of people hears of g-ho for the first time, there are always the few who clearly don’t GET g-ho, or satire, or that it was NOT carpetbaggers but people who already lived there, or the fact that hey, if you don’t like g-ho, maybe you should have thought of something better before g-ho became the success it did.
oh, and chrissmari: hoping that someone gets shot sounds like something you should write about on your livejournal.
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Satire. Ha. “G-Ho” is the worst piece of satire I’ve ever seen. It’s just a stupid joke that caught on with a bunch of people who couldn’t think of anything better. And Graduate Hospital doesn’t even exist anymore. Anderson Yards is starting to sound better and better.
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