Boxing Out Terrorists At Independence Hall

As you may have heard by now, the geniuses at the National Park Service are planning on putting a seven-foot wrought iron fence around Independence Hall. This idea has been condemned by everyone from Arlen Specter to John Street to the editorial boards of both the Inky and Daily News to neighbors in Society Hill. Charlie Manuel probably hates it, too.

But, in case you haven’t gotten the idea as to what a giant, seven-foot fence surrounding Independence Hall would look like, Philly Skyline’s Brad Maule has given us a nice visual aid with the help of a certain overpaid 6-foot-11 center:

And, really, would that ever work? Samuel Dalembert couldn’t even guard Manute Bol. What’s he gonna do to a terrorist?

Hometown Improvement [PW]
The Independence Experience [phillyskyline]

Surely, They’ll Build Real Hotels On The Liberty Bell One Day, Anyway

Yesterday, I wrote about the awful, awful plan for a new Monopoly board game. You, however, can vote on what landmarks will be on the new “Here & Now Edition” board. I’m not quite sure how you can put houses and hotels on, say, the Empire State Building, but I suppose you could say the same thing about Park Place.

Philadelphia is included among the cities that will have landmarks on the new Monopoly edition, and here are the three that you can vote on:

Independence Hall, the Libery Bell and… the Parkway? That’s it? That’s our third biggest landmark? Wait, what? Why not the Art Museum? Uh, City Hall? The late, great Shibe Park?

Naturally, I voted for the Parkway, though. Gotta root for the underdog.

Monopoly Here & Now [Hasbro]
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