History marches on. Its signposts, however, have been on hiatus for nearly six months due to supply chain woes.
Stroll the streets of Center City and snippets of history seem to leap out from every block.
The site where America’s oldest surviving photograph was taken on Chestnut Street, or the former lunch counter where one of the country’s earliest LGBT sit-ins took place at 17th and Latimer; the house on Market Street where Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence or the block of North 15th Street that once housed a thriving silent movie studio.
The PHMC blames supply chain disruptions. Sewah Studios, the Ohio company that fabricates the markers, has suffered shortages that make the timely delivery of new markers unfeasible. In addition, the pandemic caused a number of marker dedications to be postponed over the last three years, leaving the PHMC with a backlog.
More than 2,500 of the aluminum markers have been installed since the program was launched in 1946, with more than 300 in the city of Philadelphia. Nominations have been stalled since December 2022, when 37 markers were approved. Eleven of those are planned for Philly, including guideposts for the
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