the Eraserhood

the Eraserhood The Eraserhood is the area of North Central Philadelphia where David Lynch lived while a student at

01/16/2025

What a gift, when someone truly understands you, and what a loss when they are gone. David Lynch died today at the age of 78. His seminal work as a director aside, we mourn his passing because of several interviews he gave to City Paper (or was it Philly Weekly?) in the 1990s and early 2000s that expressed the inchoate feelings and plenty of other folks had about what gave Philadelphia its particular fascination.

Much later, in 2014, hired Hidden City to create a tour of the neighborhood (the Eraserhood/Callowhill/the Loft District) where Lynch lived in his student days to accompany a retrospective of Lynch's paintings. We teamed up with Lynch aficionado and have offered the tour once or twice a year ever since. (Gotta be at least twice this year 🫤).

PAFA had gotten the idea of contacting us because they had seen our aricle about a Canadian teenager who in the late 1960s photographed in color the trolleys that were his passion (and much else incidentally). This was the city Lynch knew and was responding to, and which he later described as he does in this post's graphic. That article (link in bio) was the germ of the idea which would become our current book project, Philly in Color, 1950 to 19990. And so we keep seeking to evoke the lost world that Lynch knew.



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05/17/2024

Ha detto tutto lui 💙 Condividete Lynch per celebrare il 17 maggio, Giornata internazionale contro l'omofobia, la bifobia e la transfobia ❤️ 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

03/03/2024

Episode 200 of Big Questions & a Film about The Eraserhood March 2, 2024 by Rodney Anonymous Big Questions with the Dead Milkmen is back. This episode is about our recent shows at the Underground Arts here in Philadelphia. As a sort of side-quest, I’ve created an eight-minute short film about The ...

03/16/2023
11/19/2022

I've just been invited to exhibit my work in this show coming up in November!! So excited!!!

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Walking the Eraserhood - Promo 3
Walking the Eraserhood - Promo 3

Available now!! https://ehood.us/walking You can now share all the history and the mystery of the Eraserhood with your friends and loved ones! This attractive 178 page volume photographically documents the look and feel of Philadelphia in and around the Callowhill Industrial Historic District as it was in the years between 2007 and 2014. Revised and expanded text discusses life in Callowhill as it is in the 21st century as well as how the neighborhood influenced painter and filmmaker David Lynch in the late 1960s. "Electric Ouroboros" from "Eraserpunk Suites" by Bob Bruhin http://ehood.us/5Ph

Walking the Eraserhood - Promo 2
Walking the Eraserhood - Promo 2

Available now!! https://ehood.us/walking You can now share all the history and the mystery of the Eraserhood with your friends and loved ones! This attractive 178 page volume photographically documents the look and feel of Philadelphia in and around the Callowhill Industrial Historic District as it was in the years between 2007 and 2014. Revised and expanded text discusses life in Callowhill as it is in the 21st century as well as how the neighborhood influenced painter and filmmaker David Lynch in the late 1960s. Music: "Industrial Entrainment Number 2" from "Eraserpunk Suites" by Bob Bruhin http://ehood.us/5Ph

Walking the Eraserhood -- Available now!!
Walking the Eraserhood -- Available now!!

https://ehood.us/walking You can now share all the history and the mystery of the Eraserhood with your friends and loved ones! This attractive 178 page volume photographically documents the look and feel of Philadelphia in and around the Callowhill Industrial Historic District as it was in the years between 2007 and 2014. Revised and expanded text discusses life in Callowhill as it is in the 21st century as well as how the neighborhood influenced painter and filmmaker David Lynch in the late 1960s.

#Repost @patiophilly (@get_repost) ・・・ No oh my god no!!!!!!!!!!! It’s Spooky House. Halloween night on Hamilton Street. Join us and Love City Wednesday night for drinks, live music and ghouls 🎃👻💃🍺👹 . horroronhamilton.com . . #halloween #halloweenparties #horroronhamilton #blockparty #halloweennight #halloweenparty #ghosts #cocktail #potions #drinkspecials #pumpkin #pumpkins #lovecitylager #foodtrucks #djs #tsot #railpark #undertheviaduct #spookyhouse #beercans #pumpkinbeer #whatsoninphilly #visitphilly #philly #callowhill #callowhill #bar #cocktails #eraserhood #outdoorparty . . . @springartsphl @the_trestle_inn @lovecitybrewing @therailpark @callowhillneighborhood @eraserhood_blog @roypitzbarrelhouse

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