See this huge example of the word “Philada”
“Philada Book of Just Hours” is located at the southwest entrance to the Criminal Justice Center, Juniper and Filbert Street. Photo by Jim Murphy, Author of Real Philly History, Real Fast.
Stop in at the southwest entrance of the Philadelphia Criminal Justice Center at Juniper and Filbert Streets and you’ll come across this hidden 26-foot-high piece of public art. Look closely and you’ll see it uses the word Philada, an early abbreviation for the City of Brotherly Love.
Named “Philada Book of Just Hours” – a title I don’t understand at all – this 1995 piece of public art is supposed to be a “symbolic or literal forum for discussions and debates on issues related to the American Justice system,” says the Association for Public Art. The three chairs represent the affirmative, negative and judge’s point of view.
Commissioned by the City of Philadelphia’s One Percent for Art Program, the piece was created by Phillips Simkin. The multi-media law library consists of metal, bronze and real law books. The symbolic bronze lectern represents the crack in the Liberty Bell.
For more info on Philada, see my blog from 10/20/21, “What you probably never noticed on the Liberty Bell.”
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