Philadelphia Friends OctoberPhest Event Details

Put on your walking shoes and bring your appetite. Take a 3 hour stroll through Philly's center city, Old City, Society Hill, South Street and Italian Market sections.
We'll start off at Reading Terminal at 12th and Arch streets. It is the nation's oldest continuously operating Farmers market. Get a butter dipped soft pretzel or a whoopie pie from the Amish, a fresh squeezed juice, or a strong, hot coffee from one of over 80 local merchants.
Our walking tour continues east on Chestnut street, through a shopping district, to Philly's historic area. We'll pass the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, and Independence National Historical Park. Double back one block to check out the famous Dream Garden glass moasaic, designed by artist Maxfield Parrish.

   We will continue south on 6th Street to Pine, then east on Pine through Antique Row, to society hill's Headhouse Square, an open air market full of local crafts and more local yummies. After we breeze through Headhouse Square, we will head up South Street which offers the best people-watching in Philly. We can browse the sex shops and tattoo parlors, meet up with Philly Friends' Pub Crawl, or grab some coffee at an outdoor café.
   Walk up South street to Isaiah Zagar's amazing, evolving mosaic house and sculpture garden. You've never seen anything like it. We can gawk at the urban-found-art from outside, or choose to pay the $3 donation to get a close-up view and go into sensory overload. Last, we double back. You can choose to end your tour with a Philly Cheese Steak at Jim's Steaks, or head south on 9th Street to the Italian Market, which still looks like it did 100 years ago. We'll stroll through the fresh produce, cheese and meat markets., grab a canolli or tamali (we know, \that's not Italian).
   Our walk ends at the famous corner of Pat's and Geno's. Find out who's you like best. Hosted by Sharon & Shawn

Harrah's Chester Casino & Racetrack promo is “Where Fun Meets
Fabulous! “ Of course, in Philly-speak, that’s “Where Phun Meets
Phabulous!” Meeting is the name of the game at our October-Phest
event, but here on the casino floor, we're hoping you’ll meet Lady
Luck at Electronic Blackjack or one of the 2,700 hot slots. If the
slots don’t get your heart racing, the simulcasting of spectacular
racing from venues such as Belmont and The Meadowlands, will! .
If your hunger for Phame and Phortune turns into just plain hunger for lunch, then you will find that culinary temptations abound. Choose from restaurants ranging from the bounty of Temptations Buffet, to End Zone Sports Bar & Grill where sports lovers won't be able to resist the action. The Cove at Riverview serves up sizzling steaks and sumptuous seafood amid charming surroundings. And right at the heart of Harrah’s Chester is Stir, a seductive watering hole located in the middle of the casino floor, Stir is the place to see and be seen, to mix and mingle, and to indulge in the music and winning surroundings.
Join your Philly Friends hosts for one phenomenal and phabulicious afternoon at Harrah’s Casino. Hosted by Kath & Gary

The shocking, the frightful, the weird, and the grotesque. Participate in a tour of the Mutter Museum. This experience features such notables as "The Soap Lady", a plaster cast of Chang and Eng the original Siamese Twins, and the skeletons of a 7'6 giant and 3'6" dwarf. Then we'll set-out for the Eastern State Penitentiary (ESP) where behind the massive, castle-like stone walls of this abandoned prison lies a lost world of crumbling cell blocks and forsaken towers. ESP was a prison, designed to inspire penitence-or true regret-in the hearts of criminals, using solitary confinement. Some of America's most notorious criminals were housed here including Al Capone, and bank robber, Willie Sutton.