>What's that mean? Maybe you can help fill in some of my childhood details that I've long forgotten. I left when I was 13 so I only remember some names, no details.
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>When I lived in Denver there was a phila. cheese steak place that had a map of philadelphia on the wall, so I could do some research there. There's a place in LA called "South Philly" I go to once in a while, but they don't have a map. Just a list of famous people born in philly.
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>>>I grew up in Overbrook Park. I only remember the big street that went thru the neighborhood was 76th St. I would have gone to Overbrook H.S. I'm trying to remember the name of the Junior High I attended for 7th and 8th grade, until we moved to Long Island. I think it was Beeber, or something like that.
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>>Other side of town from me. I grew up in Oak Lane, went to Girls High, which was, in fact, the closest high school.
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>>Tamar

Philadelphia is, more or less, shaped like the letter "Y", but tilted from lower left to upper right. (http://www.aaccessmaps.com/show/map/philadelphia_metro)

The leg of the Y includess North Philadelphia, Center City, South Philadelphia and West Philadelphia. The right arm (which continues up from the leg) include neighborhoods like Kensington and Frankford, as well as what's called "the Great Northeast." The left arm, includes Northwest Philly, taking in neighborhoods such as Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill.

Overbrook Park, where you lived, is right on the western border of the city. You can find it on the map by looking for St. Joseph's University. Oak Lane, where I grew up, is right when the two arms and the leg meet. I now live just north of that, in the "crotch" formed by the two arms (just below where it says Jenkintown on the map).

Tamar