- I went to Caplansky's for lunch last Thursday and if you eat meat you need to eat meat there. For $12 you get a bowl of soup or fries, coleslaw, a smoked meat sandwich and a pickle! Wash everything down with some root beer and top it off with a slice of pie and you will be full for about 2 days. Caplansky's is on Clinton just south of College and I'm pretty sure they only serve lunch and it's kind of weird because they operate out of the Monarch Tavern but seem to be a separate entity.
In the heart of downtown Philadelphia, among abandoned buildings and impoverished neighborhoods where drugs and unemployment pervade, is a place called Fletcher Street. A block that upon first glance looks just like all the others, that is, until you see the horses and hear their hoof beats.
Horses? In the middle of the ghetto? Surprisingly, yes. They have been here for years, when the African American community thrived in Philadelphia, before drugs and unemployment steadily encompassed healthy neighborhoods and they disintegrated into urban war zones.
Despite it all, the horses have stayed, and they have because of the small, passionate, dedicated group of men determined to reclaim their neighborhood and their children. In this fight, they use the one thing that they know, love and trust, the horses.
- I stumbled across this great plate and many others at www.thomaspaul.com. Thomas Paul is a designer from New York and you can see the variety of his work on his website. I love the gothic doily melamine platesI think that's it for this week! Happy Monday!
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