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Termini is an Italian bakery in Philadelphia. There are two locations. One in South Philadelphia, and this one in The Reading Terminal Market in Center City. Taken on Christmas Eve 2021
Reading Terminal Market is an enclosed public market occupying the ground floor and basement levels of the Reading Terminal's former train shed, now part of the Philadelphia Convention Center. The Reading Terminal opened in 1893, serving the railroad's inter-city and regional rail trains. The rails were elevated to reach the train shed platform, which was built over top of a new indoor market consisting of the consolidated Franklin Market and Farmer's Market, which opened a year earlier and featured a state-of-the-art, 52-room refrigerated storage area. The market features 380 merchants in its first year and remained at full occupancy for the following 60 years before falling on hard times during the suburbanization of America in the 1950s and 60s. In the 1980s and 90's, after the terminal was converted to the Pennsylvania Convention Center, the market once again became a popular destination in Philadelphia.
We went to the Reading Terminal for lunch. It was a nice market with a lot of food, especially if you want to find typical American food such as burgers or sandwich.
Notice the size of the hams. Someone drives the Amish about 50 miles everyday from the countryside to the city to work here.
Photographed (I think) from City Hall tower in May 1966. I did not take this photograph; it was taken by a friend of my parents who was either an architect or an engineer. He knew I liked trains and he gave me a series of slides when I was about ten.
The Historic Reading Terminal building on Market Street in Center City Philadelphia built in 1889 and serving trains till November 6, 1984.
The Reading Railroad's headhouse was designed in 1891 by Francis H. Kimball, and the train shed by Wilson Brothers & Company and opened in 1893. The rails were elevated to reach the train shed platform built over top of the new consolidated market. The entire Reading Terminal is on the National Register of Historic Places #72001170, and also a National Historic Landmark.
The trainshed of Reading Terminal, Philadelphia, in February 1977. Ten months after the creation of ConRail, little had changed at the historic structure. Today, the restored trainshed is part of the Pennsylvania Convention Center complex.
Philadelphia's market is one of the oldest continuously operated market since 1892. It opened originally in 1893 in the train shed of the Reading Railroad Company after the city of Philadelphia advocated to move public markets from the streets into indoor facilities for both safety and sanitary reasons.The Reading Railroad Company owned and operated the market space until 1976 when the company liquidated, leaving the market without its parent company and foot traffic from the train. Presently, it still occupies the ground floor and basement levels of the Reading Terminal's former train shed which is now part of the Philadelphia Convention Center. Vendor stalls occupy the ground floor with entrances on Filbert Street to the South, Twelfth Street to the West, and Arch Street to the North. The stalls are arranged in a grid pattern with an open area in the center with tables and seating. Over one hundred merchants offer fresh produce, meats, fish, artisan cheese, groceries, ice cream, flowers, grilled cheese, baked goods, crafts, books, clothing, and specialty and ethnic foods. [Wikipedia]