Workshop of the world

Workshop of the world. Enterprising Philadelphia companies. , Philadelphia's reputation as a thriving center of production earned it the nickname "Workshop of the World." Beginning in the early 1800s, the city supported diverse businesses ranging from small workshops to large, well-known companies such as Stetson Hats., Development along Schuylkill Avenue (formerly Sutherland Avenue) exemplified the city's manufacturing power. Industrial yards on the riverbank received and stored materials, including lumber, sand, and coal, that fueled local manufacturers., Businesses near this site included a tin factory, a glass works and a planing mill, as well as a Marine Corps depot built to store military supplies during World War II., The commercial mix shifted , After the war, the city's manufacturing industries began to decline as the financial service, bioscience, and tourism industries rose to prominence. On Schuylkill Avenue, aging industrial buildings were demolished to make way for the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's new buildings., [Captions:] , The Philadelphia Electric Company built generating stations at Catherine Street and Schuylkill Avenue in the early 1900s. The stations provided electricity to notable Philadelphia businesses, including the Pennsylvania Railroad and Bell Telephone Company., Built on this site in 1941, the Marine Corps' Schuylkill depot housed small arms, clothing, and other industrial goods produced in Philadelphia for the war effort., 1964 , From 1964 to around 1980, the former depot building served as the John F. Kennedy Vocational Center, where unemployed workers trained for a variety of jobs. Here, students learn to operate a turret lathe.