A Philly-pino Weekend
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The mural is located on a wall at 8426 Bustleton Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19152.
The mural features some nice touches, including portraits of Carlos Bulosan and Larry Itliong; references to anti-Filipinx American racism; our exhibition at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair; a door adorned with the legend of Malakas at Maganda.
I rejoiced when I found the “Alab ng Puso (My Heart's Sole Burning Fire (100 Years of Filipinos in Greater Philadelphia)” mural online, but I wasn’t sure if it was still around — the press has died down since its inauguration. Three years after discovering its existence, and now that I have a car for rotations, I finally made the journey to check the piece out. What a beauty.
Around the corner is a Filipino handicraft store that was closed when we visited, but my heart was warmed knowing this block of Philadelphia exists.
Reposted with permission from the author’s blog, https://www.philmed.xyz/blog/a-philly-pino-weekend
All photos by the author.
Phil Delrosario is a storyteller and 1st year resident physician in Emergency Medicine at UC San Francisco. His passions lie in social emergency medicine, narrative medicine, and storytelling in all its forms.
