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Broadway comes to a shipyard
- Neighborhood
- Fishtown/Kensington
- Related Story
- Cramp Shipyard — “A Community Organization and a Community Institution”
- Street Address
- Richmond St. and Norris St.
- Date Created
- June 5 1943
- Description
- Theatrical stars from New York staged "The Lunchtime Follies" during noon hour at the Cramp Shipbuilding Company yard yesterday. Experiment was the first of series to boost morale of war workers. It did. Twenty-minute revue was given on outdoor state with the company and the American Theater Wing as sponsors. Milton Berle headed cast with Betty Garrett and Gordon Gifford.
- Contributing Institution
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Collection
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia Record Photograph Collection
- Topics
- Landscape & Architecture, Public & Social Life, Work
- This Item Is Unavailable For Purchase
