Philco Headquarters (also known as Plant 2) facing Tioga Street, circa 1960. You can tell that this building was added on to and enlarged several times over the years. One can imagine Jim Skinner saying, “Why build a new plant when this building is perfectly sound?”

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In early 1998, Philco’s Plant 2 looked like this. This shows the building at the corner of C and Tioga Streets, with an edge of the Baxter, Kelly & Faust mill at left.
Photo courtesy Domi Sanchez

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Unfortunately, as can be seen here in this back view of Plant 2 from Ontario Street, the former Philco Headquarters building was in the process of being razed.
Photo courtesy Domi Sanchez

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By 2000, Plant 2 was gone, and the lot had become a junkyard. Philco’s television factory, built in 1952, is clearly seen in the background on the north side of Tioga.

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In 2002, the lot is mostly clear but remains fenced in. What a sad end to what was once America’s number one radio manufacturer.

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In early 1998, Philco’s radio-phonograph factory, which had been built in 1945 on the southwest corner of Ontario and C Streets, was still standing…
Photo courtesy Domi Sanchez

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…but it, too, was torn down. This is all that remained at the site as of 2002. It is doubtful that this area will ever again see the manufacturing activity that once went on here, although there are still signs of activity inside the old Baxter, Kelly & Faust mill on the opposite corner of C and Tioga Streets.

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Ron Ramirez stands on the remaining tile of what had been the first floor of Philco’s 1945 radio-phonograph factory. The building in the background may have been Philco’s chassis factory on Allegheny Avenue, as it appears to match the style of the old Plant 2 building.
Photo by Kandi Ramirez

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This is a map of the former Philco complex in Philadelphia’s Kensington District.