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PHILLY LOVE NOTES: The Walt Whitman Bridge gives good view
There is something about a city all lit up and gleaming in the night that is both romantic and mesmerizing - and the best place to see it that way is from the Walt Whitman Bridge.
PHILLY LOVE NOTES: The Walt Whitman Bridge gives good view
Every few weeks, Critical Mass will feature one Philly love note in its collaboration with blogger Emma Fried-Cassorla of phillylovenotes.com.
LOVE NOTE RECIPIENT: Walt Whitman Bridge
I AM: David Goodman. A writer/artist/geek who is a regular contributor to the blogs Geekadelphia and The Quarter Bin. I also spend entirely too much time reading way too many comic books.
MY LOVE NOTE:
Ever since a very early age, I have had a love affair with cities — Philadelphia in particular. I distinctly remember going into Philly for a class trip in grade school and immediately falling in love. The sounds, smells, sights; it all fascinated me to no end. Ever since, I have taken every opportunity I could to go into Philadelphia and drink it all in.
But as you can imagine and probably know already, Philadelphia has a lot of less-attractive qualities too. It’s noisy, some neighborhoods are downright dangerous, trash is everywhere and an encounter with a typical Philly resident can be a decidedly “unique” experience. But that has never stopped me from enjoying Philadelphia and talking it up to anyone who will listen.
When making my case for Philly, the one thing I tell people more than anything is that if you want to see Philadelphia at its best, at its most beautiful and peaceful, you need to see the city at night. With all the windows of the buildings lit up and the traffic going up and down Broad Street and I-95. And the best place to do that is from the Walt Whitman Bridge.
There is something about a city all lit up and gleaming in the night that is both romantic and mesmerizing. I think it might be because all the problems and shortcomings of the city in question somehow disappear, replaced by this shining beacon of what we as people are able to accomplish. And more than most, Philadelphia fits that description perfectly. When seen at night, you don’t think of all the problems Philly has (and we have many), you just see the beauty of what we, as Philadelphians, have built and how it continues to evolve and grow as we do.
So the next time you’re going over the Walt Whitman at night, take a look to your right and see Philadelphia at it’s best. It will make you look at your hometown in a whole new light.
Have a favorite spot you'd like to write a love note to? Send it to the author at phillylovenotes@gmail.com or tweet her @phillylovenotes.
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