Five Fun Facts about Philadelphia:
• Philadelphia is rich in Jazz history. Many of the greatest Jazz musicians have roots here, and we still have some of the best Jazz clubs in the country.
• Philadelphia was the first capitol of the United States.
• Like movies? These movies were all filmed in Philadelphia: Rocky I, II, III, & V, Blow Out, Beloved, Fallen, Trading Places, Witness, Philadelphia, Fighting Back, Birdy, Se7en, Mannequin, Stealing Home, I Don’t Buy Kisses Anymore, The “In” Crowd, Clean and Sober, Eddie and the Cruisers, Dressed To Kill, The Blob, Twelve Monkeys, The Philadelphia Story, The Sixth Sense, and Unbreakable.
• America’s first lager beer was produced in 1840 by John Wagner in Philadelphia.
• The Philadelphia Zoo was America’s first zoo.
Famous Philadelphians:
Kevin Bacon, John Barrymore, Noam Chomsky, John Coltrane, Bill Cosby, Eve, Louis Kahn, Grace Kelly, John Kelly, Patti LaBelle, Mario Lanza, Margaret Mead, Pink, Will Smith, John Wanamaker
Local Slang:
Down the Shore – At the (New Jersey) shore
Jawn – Can mean “thing.” Sometimes used to refer to a song. Frequently used by males in reference to females.
Wooder – Water
Yas/Yiz – Plural of the word “you”