Barbary

951 Frankford Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19125
B&W, 4 per strip, $3.00

Photos: November 2, 2010
Last visit: November 2, 2010

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I set out to find the Barbary on a cold November night, and after stumbling over a torn-up side street under a highway overpass past half a dozen pieces of giant machinery, I found the place. Inside were five or six guys watching an episode of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" playing off a laptop, projected onto a brick wall. Perfect.

The booth was in excellent working order, and I took a strip of photos inside. I did my standard patdown of the top of the machine and came across the strip seen here, abandoned after a night of carousing, no doubt. The strip I took never made it back from Philadelphia, so I'm glad I held onto this found photo.

Contributed by Brian