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Sources: 1887 newspaper clippings from Larry Handy’s and signs from Don Fink’s Philadelphia breweriana collections; Official Program of German Day 1892 and Geschichte des Nordoestlichen Saengerbundes from the German Society of Pennsylvania; Souvenir of the 60^th Stiftungsfest of the Schützen Verein from the Fetzer collection;  Official Souvenir Program of the Labor Day Parade and Picnic 1905 published by the Central Labor Union of Philadelphia and Vicinity; Official Program of Founders’ Week Being the 225^th Anniversary of Philadelphia 1683-1908 and Dunlop & Clarke’s Official Liquor License Directory of Philadelphia and Principal Cities and Towns of Pennsylvania 1890-91 from Jim Freeman’s collection. This composite directory amply illustrates the fact that Philadelphia was One Big Brewerytown!

Upcoming Events:

* 7 PM Thursday June 10, 2008 Rich Wagner will present “Craft Brewing in Philadelphia” at Triumph Brewery and Restaurant 117 Chestnut St. Cash Bar.

• Saturday and Sunday June 14-15, 2008 Rich Wagner will be conducting a colonial brewing demonstration at the Carriage Museum Festival.

• On June 19, 2008 the ABA will be having opening ceremonies for their new breweriana museum in the old Potosi brewery. Rich Wagner will be installing the four displays he created for Yards Brewing Company that illustrate Philadelphia brewing history. In addition, he will be setting up a display case with Philadelphia bottles, and printed material.

• Rich Wagner will be doing a “show and tell” with his colonial brewing equipment as part of Mercer Museum's Brewery Night 6:30 August 15, 2008.

• See the latest videos from “The Philadelphia Brewery Tour Revistited” now posted on YouTube.

Audio and Video Files:

Temple student Stephen Metzger just completed a short film about Philadelphia breweries past and present which includes an interview with Rich Wagner. He considers this a work in progress, and may be expanded in the future.

Hear interviews with former brewery employees and some radio and TV ads from Sunshine Brewery in Reading from the current exhibit “Beer and Pretzels in Berks” at the Historical Socity of Berks County.

Sue Henry's 47 minute documentary: “Beer Gardening in Northeastern PA” aired on WILK 980 AM in October 2007. The show includes interviews with Rich Wagner, who drove around for a day showing Sue some of the old breweries of the Wyoming Valley, Wilkes-Barre and Scranton. Also included is her tour with the Lion Brewery's Leo Orlandini and a visit with local breweriana collector Al Kogoy in his basement brewery musuem. Al supplied some vintage radio ads dating back to the fifties and sixties from the region's breweries.

Hear Radio Rick Spector interviewing Rich Wagner on The Philadelphia Brewery Tour Revisited, aired on the Milestones Radio Show, July 29, 2006 on 1340 AM WHAT Philadelphia!

Philadelphia Brewery Tour Now on YouTube:

Philadelphia Brewery Tour I - May 2, 1987

Colonial Brewing Demonstration Now on YouTube:

Writer/Film maker Jeff Linkous created a video entitled Ancestral Ale – Brewing in Colonial America from the Rich's colonial brewing demonstration at the Camden County Historical Society last fall. Check out his blog: http://beerstainedletter.blogspot.com/

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