Philadelphia's Gum Tree Cut Down

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MIKE PESCA
NPR The Bryant Park Project
06-23-2008
Philadelphia's Gum Tree Cut Down

Host: MIKE PESCA
Time 8:00-9:00 AM

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Let us now debut Unlikely Landmarks, our series on local monuments that were never supposed to be. I got to identify this: this is "Got a lot of living to do" from Bye Bye Birdie, the Herb Alpert version, isn't it? Thank you, wow. Today, the South Street gum tree in Philadelphia is our unlikely landmark. For decades, passers-by affixed their chewed Bubblicious and Juicy Fruit to tree outside a cheese steak joint creating a technicolor gummy ...

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