DID YOU NOTICE how much Prince Charles looks like Prince Edward, the last Prince of Wales to visit Philadelphia in 1860? There was a great picture of a handsome Prince Edward on the front page of The Inquirer on Saturday. The man who would become King Edward VII arrived in Philadelphia , a local paper reported," attired as a private gentleman without ribbon or order." It was during the weird frantic months before the Civil War.
What struck me as cool and proper was that on the evening he arrived in Philadelphiua, Prince Edawrd went bowling at the Union Club at 12th and Walnut St. What also struck me as cool was this photo of the bowling alley at 13th and Chestnut Sts. Still fits the city, doesn't it. And if Prince Charles and Camilla wanted to knock around some ten pins while in town, they could have walked here from their hotel.
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