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Re: PHILADELPHIA JANE DOE (1968): WF, 30-60, found in Schuylkill
River by oil refinery - 20 March 19
By: Akoya Date: June 6, 2020, 10:19 am
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Penrose Ave/George C. Platt Bridge - 1951
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Re: PHILADELPHIA JANE DOE (1968): WF, 30-60, found in Schuylkill
River by oil refinery - 20 March 19
By: Akoya Date: June 6, 2020, 10:20 am
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Re: PHILADELPHIA JANE DOE (1968): WF, 30-60, found in Schuylkill
River by oil refinery - 20 March 19
By: Akoya Date: June 6, 2020, 10:21 am
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Re: PHILADELPHIA JANE DOE (1968): WF, 30-60, found in Schuylkill
River by oil refinery - 20 March 19
By: Akoya Date: June 6, 2020, 10:23 am
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Opened in 1951, the George C. Platt Memorial Bridge carries
56,000 cars a day.
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Re: PHILADELPHIA JANE DOE (1968): WF, 30-60, found in Schuylkill
River by oil refinery - 20 March 19
By: Akoya Date: June 6, 2020, 10:28 am
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George C. Platt Bridge over the Schuylkill River, Philadelphia
PA
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Re: PHILADELPHIA JANE DOE (1968): WF, 30-60, found in Schuylkill
River by oil refinery - 20 March 19
By: Akoya Date: June 6, 2020, 10:37 am
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Platt Bridge Looking Down River.
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Re: PHILADELPHIA JANE DOE (1968): WF, 30-60, found in Schuylkill
River by oil refinery - 20 March 19
By: Akoya Date: June 6, 2020, 10:38 am
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Photo taken at George C. Platt Memorial Bridge
It would have been difficult to throw a body from the Platt
bridge. There's 24 hour traffic close to the Philadelphia
Airport.
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Re: PHILADELPHIA JANE DOE (1968): WF, 30-60, found in Schuylkill
River by oil refinery - 20 March 19
By: Akoya Date: June 6, 2020, 10:39 am
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The refinery is located on the south bank of the Schuylkill
River at the George Platt Bridge.
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The PES Philadelphia Refining Complex has been “part of the
neighborhood” in South Philadelphia for over 150 years and is
closely tied to the growth of the American oil industry in the
19th century.
In 1866, one year after the end of the Civil War, Atlantic
Petroleum Company established its operations at Point Breeze
along the Schuylkill River below Passyunk Ave. Four warehouses
were built, and those could store 50,000 barrels (2.1 million
gallons) of refined oil product, mostly kerosene used as lamp
oil to light the homes and businesses in the growing city.
(Remember that the automobile had not yet arrived on the scene,
but when it did, it was probably powered by ethanol.)
Atlantic also built docks and railroad trunk lines to connect
with the new refineries in Western Pennsylvania that were
established after oil was discovered in Titusville, PA, in 1859.
Atlantic installed its first petroleum refining units in 1870,
changed its name to Atlantic Refining Company and soon became
Philadelphia’s largest employer. Right after the turn of the
century, Atlantic introduced the first fractionating tower,
which would radically alter and improve the way oil would be
refined.
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In 1966, Atlantic Refining Co. and Richfield Oil Co. in
California merged to become ARCO. In 1982, Gulf was bought out
by Chevron, and the Girard Point refinery became the Chevron USA
Philadelphia refinery.
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Re: PHILADELPHIA JANE DOE (1968): WF, 30-60, found in Schuylkill
River by oil refinery - 20 March 19
By: Akoya Date: June 6, 2020, 10:40 am
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The refinery area has been owned by Atlantic, Chevron, Gulf,
Sunoco, and a few other energy companies since the 1860s. The
entire area has had fractional distillation towers and large
storage tanks for decades. It is unlikely that security would
allow random cars to drive through the refinery to the south
bank of the river.
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Re: PHILADELPHIA JANE DOE (1968): WF, 30-60, found in Schuylkill
River by oil refinery - 20 March 19
By: Akoya Date: June 6, 2020, 10:41 am
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The north bank of the Schuylkill River appears to be a location
where a body could be released into the river.
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