Broad Street

Greetings from our new office. After publishing IPG for almost 30 years from a building on Broad Street, in Philadelphia, my company pulled up stakes last month and relocated to the 12th floor of a renovated building on Spring Garden Street. That makes this the first issue being produced in our new facility. Our move went pretty smoothly. I had spent weeks clearing out 30 years of IPG files, and what was left fit in nine boxes. They were waiting for me in my new office when I came to work the Monday after the move, and by afternoon every file had

by Bob Neubauer Philadelphia is just plain hot in the summer—a sticky, muggy heat that creeps inside your clothes and plasters them against your skin, making you fidget uncomfortably as you walk down Broad Street, yearning for a decent patch of shade. Needless to say, I'm less than eager to venture outside for lunch. So as I brooded in my fifth floor office one recent August day, eating my ham sandwich and gazing with pity at the pedestrians below, trudging through the 100-degree heat, I couldn't help dreaming of places I'd rather be. Cold places. Places far north of here.