36 episodes
There's a Sign Shane O'Connor
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5.0 • 10 Ratings
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Shane O'Connor tells you the stories behind blue historical marker signs located all around the city of Philadelphia. Learn some new facts to impress your friends with at cocktail parties! Store some fun facts in your brain to use during those awkward early minutes of Zoom calls!
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Thomas Ustick Walter
Back with a new episode looking at a great Philadelphia architect, Thomas Ustick Walter. He helped bring Greek revivalism to America and built the friggin' U.S. Capitol dome!! Shoutot Flop Soup podcast for being the first ever human being to ask to be plugged on my humble program.
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ECW Arena with Trent Mabry
Oh my lanta it is another guest episode! Indiana's finest Trent Mabry joins me as we take a look at ECW Arena - the birthplace of American hardcore wrestling. I knew very, very little about wrestling so was fun to learn more about a slice of American culture so popular with balding men in their mid-30s.
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Miracle on South 13th Street
Hoo boy, my laptop froze and I thought that this episode would be lost to the grains of time forever but thank you Lenovo thank you Bill Gates thank you Tom Cruise, it has been saved!
Behold, The Christmas Episode, featuring the greatest stretch of Christmas Decorations in the Whole Wide World - The Miracle on South 13th Street.
Please rate, review, subscribe and have a holly jolly Christmas.
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Sarah Josepha Hale
We are back and finally taking a look at a sign that I walk by nearly ever day - Sarah Josepha Hale! This lady not only edited magazines for 40 years, she also wrote a poem that nearly every one in the whole wide world knows - powerful.
Please review, subscribe and put a winter hat on it's cold out there!
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The Barnes Foundation
There's a Sign's first LIVE episode!! Featuring the artist extraoidrinaire Teddy Hanson, we discuss the Barnes Foundation and it's sordid tale of ending up at it's current location. Thanks to Space 1026 and our lovely audience for a nice, fun, lil' episode.
Please rate, review, subscribe and eat some mashed potaters!
Thanks, as always, for listening.
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The Philadelphia Zoo
We're back! Season 2 of the pod kicks off with my second favorite place to look at wild animals in the city - The Philadelphia Zoo. From being first in zoodom to being at the forefront of breeding rare critters, this zoo has it all.
Please rate, review, subscribe and go look at the giant river otters.
I made a Patreon if you want to tell me signs to do or go on a walking tour feel free to subscribe - https://www.patreon.com/theresasign
Customer Reviews
Powerful
Finally a podcast under a half hour that discusses Philadelphia!!
They should make a sign about this dang podcast!
Not enough podcasts are 20-25 minutes long. Not enough podcasts are about Philadelphia. Not enough podcasts are just one guy kinda talking about history! Shane does a very fun job explaining philly’s classic clue historical signs, but the true treats are the episodes he does about stuff that SHOULD have a sign but doesn’t. I have sent the Allen Iverson TGI Friday’s one to MANY people.
A Cast of Yesterday’s Paw
Why listen to America’s shortest Philadelphia history podcast? Because it’s also its longest! Comedian Shane O’Connor presents lesser known stories of yore that made one of America’s oldest cities the rich tapestry of Americana and urban decay and renewal that it is today. He presents well researched storytelling with a boyhood charm, peppered with Gen Z aphorisms that even a boomer could understand. After a wise retooling of the title from “Hark, an Indication,” “There’s a Sign” delivers a quick Sunday mimosa that is light, sweet, and probably bad for you. Its author sets a fine rhythm that dances between the grisly birth of our country and pointers on dining out affordably, all while painting the narrator’s portrait as a gifted but haunted young mind finding its place in the world.