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Originally Posted by hipster duck
The problem with the Philly skyline was that, until the late 1980s boom that gave us things like the Liberty Place towers and Mellon Bank, Philadelphia had very few landmark buildings other than City Hall and maybe PSFS. It had a lot of 300 ft tall buildings that kind of blended in with one another. It would have been the pre-war equivalent of the Vancouver skyline.
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Yeah the issue with Philly is the pre-wars are stubby and fat which doesn't make for a good historic skyline.