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07-22-12, 06:29 PM
The Blob is a 1958 science fiction and horror film about a Jello-like creature from outer space that terrorizes the small town of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. The movie was shot in Valley Forge, Phoenixville, Royerford, and surrounding towns on a shoestring budget, and the lead actor, an unknown named Steve McQueen, took the part for next to nothing because he needed rent money. The most iconic scene in the film is when the creature invades the Colonial Theater and the audience runs out screaming.
Move forward 40 years and Phoenixville is a dead town. The steel plant closed, half the businesses on Bridge Street are gone, and the Colonial is shuttered. A group of civic leaders and businessfolk come up with a plan to revitalize the downtown, and restoring the 95 year old Colonial is at the heart of it. And to celebrate Phoenixville's greatest moment in film history, the idea of Blobfest was created.... a dozen years later the Colonial is restored to its 50s movie palace looks, the downtown is filled with local businesses, and Philadelphia Magazine declared the town one of the ten "most awesome places to live" in the region.
I was at the 13th annual Blobfest on July 14, as a belated celebration of the four month anniversary of my bilateral knee replacement. I met Wfournier and Mrs. Wfournier for lunch at the Bistro on Bridge, and afterward we wandered amid the street fair:
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Shops were open, including a bizarre antique shop/flea market. I found this woman adorable. How much to take her home?
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Wfournier, fifty pounds lighter than when I met him a year ago, was interested in the historic advertising at one stand:
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From the end of lunch before one to my return to my car at three I walked and stood and negotiated curbs and unlevel pavement (Phoenixville is built into a hillside.) I was sore and stiff by the end of it. And I paid for my fun. However, its probably the first time I've stood two hours without a break since 2010. I gave up hiking last year. I might be close to getting it back in my life. No wonder I look content....
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/292448_3948336999331_206148383_n.jpg
Move forward 40 years and Phoenixville is a dead town. The steel plant closed, half the businesses on Bridge Street are gone, and the Colonial is shuttered. A group of civic leaders and businessfolk come up with a plan to revitalize the downtown, and restoring the 95 year old Colonial is at the heart of it. And to celebrate Phoenixville's greatest moment in film history, the idea of Blobfest was created.... a dozen years later the Colonial is restored to its 50s movie palace looks, the downtown is filled with local businesses, and Philadelphia Magazine declared the town one of the ten "most awesome places to live" in the region.
I was at the 13th annual Blobfest on July 14, as a belated celebration of the four month anniversary of my bilateral knee replacement. I met Wfournier and Mrs. Wfournier for lunch at the Bistro on Bridge, and afterward we wandered amid the street fair:
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/251947_3948330319164_148886820_n.jpg
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/396834_3948333519244_288331409_n.jpg
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/582104_3948335799301_1766006472_n.jpg
Shops were open, including a bizarre antique shop/flea market. I found this woman adorable. How much to take her home?
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/523924_3948332919229_233208855_n.jpg
Wfournier, fifty pounds lighter than when I met him a year ago, was interested in the historic advertising at one stand:
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/561035_3948334319264_2037781589_n.jpg
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/532424_3948333919254_1317645044_n.jpg
From the end of lunch before one to my return to my car at three I walked and stood and negotiated curbs and unlevel pavement (Phoenixville is built into a hillside.) I was sore and stiff by the end of it. And I paid for my fun. However, its probably the first time I've stood two hours without a break since 2010. I gave up hiking last year. I might be close to getting it back in my life. No wonder I look content....
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/292448_3948336999331_206148383_n.jpg