A Peanuts-y stroll

If you’re in Philadelphia, out by the enjoyable Franklin Institute Science Museum, you can in about six minutes stroll from Van Pelt Street to Woodstock Street and on to a gilded bronze statue in Aviator Park memorializing the fighter pilots of World War I!

(It’s all coincidental, of course. The street names go back to at least the 19th century, and while the World War I memorial obviously doesn’t, it was funded starting in 1917 and dedicated in 1950, months before Peanuts launched and well before Snoopy entered any World War.)

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