Get Out of Town
Philadelphia, PA
Season 1 Episode 7 | 28m 32sVideo has Closed Captions
Spectacular food and history await as Laurita and Lauren visit Philadelphia, PA.
Spectacular food and history, plus a run up the famous Rocky steps, are on the itinerary as Laurita and Lauren visit Philadelphia. They make cheesesteaks at Campo’s, grab smoothies at Reading Terminal Market, and enjoy fine dining at Laser Wolf. Adventures include a Founding Footsteps Tour and stop at Shane Confectionery, plus stays at Center City’s Guild House Hotel and The Notary Hotel.
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Get Out of Town is a local public television program presented by WETA
Get Out of Town
Philadelphia, PA
Season 1 Episode 7 | 28m 32sVideo has Closed Captions
Spectacular food and history, plus a run up the famous Rocky steps, are on the itinerary as Laurita and Lauren visit Philadelphia. They make cheesesteaks at Campo’s, grab smoothies at Reading Terminal Market, and enjoy fine dining at Laser Wolf. Adventures include a Founding Footsteps Tour and stop at Shane Confectionery, plus stays at Center City’s Guild House Hotel and The Notary Hotel.
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LAUREN: So excited to get away.
LAURITA: Another adventure, girl.
LAUREN: Wow.
LAURITA: Aw, I love it.
LAUREN: My goodness.
(bell rings) LAURITA: Yeah.
LAUREN: Yeah.
LAURITA: I don't know if I can do it.
(screams) Woo.
(sighs).
VALET: Welcome.
LAUREN: Mmm.
(screams).
LAURITA: Yay.
(laughter).
LAUREN: We're excited, very excited.
LAURITA: Woo.
LAUREN: Let's do it.
♪ ♪ Hi, I'm Lauren.
LAURITA: And I'm her mother, Laurita.
LAUREN: We're from the DMV, and we love to travel.
LAURITA: We definitely do.
LAUREN: One of the best things about living in the DC area is all the many places you can visit that are just a few hours away.
LAURITA: So many options, and now we get to check them out together.
LAUREN: So, join us for a weekend of some very cool places to stay... LAURITA: Great food.
LAUREN: And nonstop fun as we...
BOTH: Get Out of Town!
(theme music plays) LAUREN: All right off to Philly!
LAURITA: Well you know I'm excited about Philly because I had two college roommates that are from there... LAUREN: Mm-hmm.
LAURITA: So I spent a little time with them there.
LAUREN: I love that it's literally only like two hours away, a quick little trip.
LAURITA: That is ballin'.
You know Philly is kind of a foodie town... LAUREN: Mm-hmm.
LAURITA: But the thing that they're really known for are the Philly cheese steaks.
LAUREN: Right.
LAURITA: And they also have another sandwich that we're going to try it's called the pork roll... LAUREN: Mm.
LAURITA: So I've never tried that, so yes we will see.
LAUREN: I think in the spirit of us going into Philly, we need to listen to an artist who's from Philly.
♪ ♪ ♪ Boyz II Men ♪♪ LAURITA: Boyz II Men, good choice!
♪ Ba, ba, ba, Boyz II Men ♪ ♪ Motownphilly's back again ♪ ♪ Doin' a little East Coast swing ♪♪ LAURITA: Swing!
♪ Boyz II Men going on ♪ ♪ Not too hard, not too soft ♪ ♪ It's long overdue but now ♪ ♪ Philly is slammin' ♪ ♪ Boyz II Men, ABC, BBD ♪ ♪ The East Coast family ♪ ♪ Never skipped a beat ♪♪ LAURITA: It looks like a mini New York, but a very big Richmond.
So it's a big little city.
♪ And all the Philly steaks you can eat ♪ ♪ Boyz II Men, Boyz II Men ♪ ♪ Boyz, Boyz, Boyz, Boyz ♪ ♪ Boyz II Men, Boyz II Men ♪ ♪ Boyz, Boyz, Boyz, Boyz ♪ ♪ Boyz II Men, ABC, BBD ♪♪ LAURITA: We are at a restaurant called Campos which is known for its cheese steaks and pork rolls.
MIA: Campos is a small family run business located in old city Philadelphia.
My dad's father Ambrose started the business with his wife Rose Campo.
Started in 1947, and then my parents took over in 1975, and now my brother and myself are stepping up.
We're in our 75th year this year and so we've been here for a while, we've become a staple to the neighborhood.
Campos is unique because it's family run, I'm still here with my father every day.
There's not very many places in the city where the family is still hands on and here it very much is ran by us.
Tourists want a great cheese steak so they come here.
We use rib eye which is no seasoning on the beef it is just a pure rib eye that we sliced down thin, we put a little bit of salt and pepper on that, caramelized onions, and then your choice of melted cheese.
And I always offer tourists a roast pork sandwich because I try to tell them don't get two of the same exact sandwich.
The pork roast is a slow roasted and we don't slice it down on a slicer, we pull it apart, marinate it and it has sharp provolone and broccoli rabe.
They'll come back up and say, you know that was a great idea, it was so good.
And I heard Lauren and Laurita did the same exact thing, they made one cheese steak and one roast pork sandwich.
MIKE: Welcome to the Campos Laurita and Lauren.
BOTH: Thank you!
MIKE: I'm happy to participate in your cook-off.
LAUREN: Woo-hoo!
LAURITA: Yeah, oh, yeah.
And I'm winning, and I'm winning.
LAUREN: It's going down.
We'll see.
(laughing).
LAURITA: Okay so I'm doing the cheese steak.
Okay we're gonna put on nine pieces, right?
MIKE: Mushrooms.
LAURITA: Yes.
LAUREN: Onions.
LAURITA: Okay.
Flip em, flip em.... MIKE: Flip em over towards the hotter side.
LAUREN: Okay.
Then on top.
MIKE: You got to do it quick, or else it's gonna burn... LAURITA: Oh, oh, oh!
Okay.
LAUREN: Go, go, go!
LAURITA: Stop talking Lauren!
Left hand... MIKE: Little more authority.
LAURITA: Okay.
LAUREN: Woo!
LAURITA: Okay.
MIKE: All right.
LAURITA: Yes!
Thank you, thank you.
MIKE: Yeah, that was perfect.
(laughing).
LAURITA: Next!
LAUREN: All right, let's do it.
LAURITA: Okay.
LAUREN: I think I'm winning already Laurita.
LAURITA: Okay.
LAUREN: Stabilizer and this is your chopper... MIKE: Yeah, yeah.
LAURITA: Ohh!
LAUREN: You see, I'm a pro.
I learned from the best.
LAURITA: She's got the rolling.
All right!
(clapping).
Good job!
LAUREN: She's cute.
(laughing).
The pork is like nice and soft... LAURITA: This is good!
LAUREN: Want to try the winning sandwich?
LAURITA: No you should try the winning sandwich.
(laughing).
The chef always wins.
MIA: The secret to a good cheese steak or the secret to a good roast pork I think would be love.
You have to love what you do, and the love runs off your fingertips and somehow goes into the sandwich.
I hope I'm making my grandfather proud.
LAUREN: Girl, Campos was the perfect way to kick off our trip in Philly.
LAURITA: It was, and now we're off to check into our first hotel.
LAUREN: So we are at the Guild House Hotel in Philly.
They're known for their invisible staff so you check yourself in they send you a code and you get into the front door and then your room with that code.
So we have just made it, are you ready to go put in the code?
LAURITA: I'm ready to go in.
Okay.
LAUREN: There we go.
They said our room is up on the fourth floor.
LAURITA: Okay.
The mill work is amazing.
LAUREN: I know, this is really pretty.
BRENNAN: Welcome to Guild House Hotel, this is a 12 room boutique hotel in Center City Philadelphia.
The property was built in 1851.
It acted as a primary residence for a number of years, then home to the New Century Guild, an organization focused on furthering women's rights, particularly as women were entering the workplace for the first time.
It was founded by three women, Eliza Turner, Florence Kelly, and Gabrielle De Veaux Clements.
It was at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, the first world's fair in the United States.
There was a women's pavilion and Eliza presented a paper talking about how it was extremely important that women receive education in trades.
And so they created a space here where women could come and gather, and also join with other like-minded women who were fighting for various causes.
The Guild existed at 1307 Locust for over 110 years.
In 2017 there was no longer a need for the gathering space, so it was in 2018 that we acquired the property, and it really only lent itself to be a hotel.
We started uncovering all sorts of women's stories, there were over 9000 members of the New Century Guild, and we decided to dedicate each of the rooms in the hotel to a different member or founder of the Guild.
LAUREN: Well, here we are.
Look, The Edith.
LAURITA: Aw.
LAUREN: Oh this is so cute!
LAURITA: It is pretty.
LAUREN: Love the yellows and the greens, it's screaming springtime in here, I love that.
BRENNAN: Laurita and Lauren are staying in The Edith suite, and it is named after a woman named Edith Brubaker.
Edith was the president of the Guild from 1903 to 1923, so right in that period of women's suffrage.
They're fighting for the vote and eventually obtain the vote in 1920.
LAURITA: Women of the Guild, so let's find Edith.
Oh, she's right here.
LAUREN: "Yellow and white run through our Edith suite as homage to the arm bands that Edith Brubaker and her fellow Guild members wore in 1915 while marching for the woman's vote."
LAURITA: Wow.
LAUREN: Oh look it says, "A little extra sparkle thanks to the original crystal chandeliers."
LAURITA: Yep, that is a extra sparkle, it's really pretty.
This is such a feminine touch in here.
BRENNAN: We were very intentional about the fact that we didn't want to create a museum, we wanted it to be a modern experience, but obviously pay respects to the history of the properties and so balancing the modern amenities with antiques mixed in, and then modern furniture with more historic pieces as well.
LAURITA: We took it a little easy today but tomorrow... LAUREN: It is all about food, sightseeing, and even more food.
♪ ♪ LAUREN: Thank you.
LAURITA: So many choices.
LAUREN: I don't know where to go first.
Okay, this way or that way?
LAYLA: Reading Terminal Market is a public market in Philadelphia.
We started out mainly as a farmers market 130 years ago.
Today you're looking at a market with about 80 businesses, they're still all mom and pop owned businesses, some of them have been here for generations.
We'll never have a franchise in this building, and that's a really important point is when you're supporting a business in the market, you're supporting a small family owned business.
You can walk in here go to 16 different merchants and get some of the best quality produce, meat, cheeses, and it sets a tone that that is really where we should be spending our money and putting our focus is on our locals.
We're a representation of everything that Philadelphia has to offer, and I mean that truly in the food and in the people that are in this building.
LAUREN: We're at Reading Terminal Market right now.
LAURITA: We love a good juice.
LAUREN: Ginger, lemon, honey, cayenne... LAURITA: Delicious!
LAYLA: Philadelphians do take great pride in Reading Terminal Market, whether it's history, food, people, this is a great space to be.
LAURITA: I wonder if I should have gotten a cookie, just 'cause I... LAUREN: Okay we will definitely have to come back.
LAURITA: Oh.
♪ ♪ (camera shutter).
♪ ♪ (camera shutter).
(camera shutter).
LAUREN: You look... (laughing).
(camera shutter).
LAUREN: Wow.
LAURITA: Ooh.
LAUREN: Look at the ceiling.
LAURITA: Nice but I like the books.
LAUREN: Really nice.
WOMAN: Hello, how are you?
Welcome to Philadelphia and welcome to The Notary Hotel.
JULIA: The Notary Hotel is kind of a hidden gem.
We're in the center of Philadelphia, right where Broad and Market meet.
It's where the heartbeat of the city is, we're located just across from City Hall and very short walking distance to bars, restaurants, museums, anything you could ever want is a few blocks away.
The hotel was built in 1926, and it was a working civic building all the way up to 1988.
And then in 2019 we became part of the Autograph Collection by Marriott.
At The Notary we embrace our history, so there was a notary public in this building, serving the citizens of Philadelphia.
And they would stamp and authenticate an official document, setting you on a new journey, a new experience.
So we bring that through with our stamp, our mark of craft, that we initiate when you check in.
LAURITA: My father was a notary, so this is really cool.
WOMAN: Well great, I'm glad you could be here in Philadelphia history.
LAURITA: Yeah.
LAUREN: That's a cool, do you have like stamps for guests?
Can I get one on my hand?
WOMAN: Absolutely!
LAUREN: Oh, notarize me!
WOMAN: Woo, you've been notarized!
(laughing).
LAUREN: Thank you!
LAURITA: Thank you so much.
WOMAN: Enjoy your stay.
LAUREN: Thanks.
LAURITA: Thank you.
JULIA: So our slogan here is, "Where History Meets The Modern," so you definitely see that everywhere you look around the hotel.
So we have this beautiful classical revival style architecture everywhere, with some modern touches.
The Notary has 499 rooms, 83 of those rooms are actually suites.
LAUREN: Ooh.
LAURITA: Classy.
LAUREN: It's very schnazzy.
LAURITA: It is chic.
JULIA: I'm excited for Laurita and Lauren.
The room has two plush queen beds in there, renovated in 2019.
LAUREN: My eyes are drawn to that view.
LAURITA: That is a Philadelphia look right there.
LAUREN: I know I mean we're in the heart of the city right now.
LAURITA: Well, can you see tonight's restaurant?
LAUREN: There's so much down there, so I'm gonna say maybe.
LAURITA: Well, let's go.
♪ ♪ HOSTESS: Hey.
LAUREN: Hi!
LAURITA: Hi!
HOSTESS: Hi, welcome to Laser Wolf.
BOTH: Thank you!
HOSTESS: The two of you?
BOTH: Yes.
HOSTESS: Great, you can follow me right this way.
LAURITA: Thanks.
HOSTESS: We're modeled after an Israeli shipudiya, which is an Israeli Grill House.
LAURITA: Oh.
Okay.
LAUREN: Okay.
HOSTESS: And everything is kind of modeled after a open-air market in Tel Aviv.
LAURITA: Oh, wow.
HOSTESS: So that's the bright colors and everything.
LAUREN: I love that!
LAURITA: You had me at grill house, so I'm all in!
I'm all in.
HOSTESS: Awesome, enjoy.
BOTH: Thank you.
HOSTESS: Of course.
ANDREW: Laser Wolf is our play on the character from the Fiddler On The Roof, Lazar Wolf, who was the butcher.
The design, it's kind of like the Italian market or like the Reading Terminal Market, just on steroids.
Like all the lights and just kind of industrial.
I would love to just cook for you guys, if that's okay?
LAUREN: Of course, can't say no.
LAURITA: Oh my gosh, we are happy to have what you want to cook for us.
ANDREW: Awesome.
So what we're going to serve to Laurita and Lauren will be our hummus and salatim, with our fresh pita.
The salatim, which is going to be ten different vegetable salads.
LAURITA: So... LAUREN: Let's do it.
LAURITA: Here, let me give you a piece of bread.
LAUREN: Thank you.
Oh, it's so nice and fluffy.
ANDREW: And that course is actually going to stay on the table, because that is going to be kind of the building blocks for the whole meal.
That's kind of like the heart of the restaurant.
That and then the charcoal grill.
Everything that we serve here is cooked over charcoal, we call it our secret ingredient, where we want it to be kind of laced into everything that you're eating, just like an underlying smokiness.
LAURITA: This does not disappoint.
I think you eat it with, any way you want, I'm just going with the bread.
Mm.
LAUREN: That is really good.
It has a little kick to it at the end.
LAURITA: Well I know we want to try everything, but we have to try a little bit, because Andrew's coming in with some really good stuff next.
LAUREN: I know, we just gotta get a little taste.
LAURITA: We can have a little tiny taste.
We gotta pace ourselves though.
ANDREW: So all of our entrees all come off of the grill.
We're going to do our short rib, that's like a two day process we take short ribs, slow roasted nice Iraqi style barbeque sauce.
So we take like traditional barbeque flavors, brown sugar, ketchup, some vinegar, and then we add to that passion fruit and amba.
That's gonna be broken down and then skewered, and we're also going to serve them our cauliflower.
Hope that y'all are still hungry.
LAUREN: Ooh!
LAURITA: Oh my God!
ANDREW: So this is our cauliflower, and then over here, this is our, uh, barbeque short rib.
There's not many decisions to make.
Every meal, every entree comes with the salatim, the hummus, the pita.
All you got to really do is come in, select what you want off of the grill, and then we kind of take care of the rest.
LAURITA: Look how the beef just breaks down.
LAUREN: Oh.
LAURITA: What?
LAURITA: The tzatziki goes so well with the cauliflower.
It is good.
I can eat this everyday.
LAURITA: And this was grilled?
LAUREN: Yeah, it's so like... LAURITA: This gives a whole new meaning to grilling.
ANDREW: Philadelphia's food scene is kind of like exploding and maturing.
Everybody thinks of cheese steak or roast pork or whatever, but everywhere you look there's a new restaurant, someone trying or doing something new.
LAURITA: Made a little sandwich.
ANDREW: Oh you get bonus points.
LAURITA: Yeah?
(laughing).
ANDREW: Thank you guys so much for coming.
LAURITA: And your choice was an excellent choice by the way.
LAUREN: Right, this really was a treat, everything was so good.
ANDREW: Nice to meet you, yeah.
LAUREN: You as well.
LAURITA: You too.
ANDREW: Thanks for, hope you enjoy Philly.
LAURITA: So I can't wait for us to bring family and friends back, because this is a place that you need to share the food... LAUREN: Mm-hmm.
LAURITA: Because it's like sharing your love.
LAUREN: It is.
Good way to put it Mom.
LAURITA: Thank you.
♪ ♪ TIM: Lauren and Laurita, it's so great to see you guys.
Welcome to Philadelphia!
LAUREN: Thanks.
LAURITA: Thank you, Tim.
TIM: I cannot wait to show you guys around the city, I say we get started.
BOTH: Let's go.
TIM: All right.
This is Octavius Valentine Catto.
I always say if your dad named you Octavius Valentine, he's expecting big things from you.
LAURITA: You know I know that name, my father was from South Carolina, and one of his neighbors was a Catto.
TIM: The Catto family originated in South Carolina.
LAURITA: Oh.
TIM: They moved to Philadelphia when he was four.
LAURITA: Okay.
TIM: At the time children of color could not get an education down South, and his father wanted his son to be educated.
LAURITA: Okay.
TIM: And again Octavius is going to rise to the challenge.
LAUREN: I've never heard of Octavius Valentine Catto, but we should definitely know more about him.
TIM: It's something that the city is really just starting to try to celebrate... LAURITA: Yes.
TIM: And push forward.
TIM: This is the first statue dedicated to an African-American on public grounds, and only dedicated in 2016.
LAURITA: It's still a part of American history, so I'm glad that it's celebrated.
TIM: Absolutely.
This is the very first stop on our tour, we got a lot more to see, and I figured we might need some help getting around the city, so I gotta surprise for you guys.
We're gonna head this way.
BOTH: Okay.
TIM: So this is our surprise.
LAURITA: All right!
LAUREN: Trolley, trolley, trolley!
TIM: So you cannot come to Philadelphia without running the famed steps.
You know what I'm talking about.
LAURITA: Oh yeah.
LAUREN: Yes, of course.
TIM: We're ready, are you guys ready?
LAURITA: Come on.
LAUREN: Yes!
LAURITA: Come on Rocky!
TIM: Heavyweight champion of the world!
LAURITA: Yes!
LAUREN: Rocky!
TIM: Now, it is a tradition here in Philadelphia, you have to take a picture, and you gotta do it like that.
LAUREN: Okay.
LAURITA: Oh yeah, we got that.
LAUREN: All right, let's do it.
TIM: On your marks, get set, go!
LAURITA: All right.
LAUREN: Here we go.
♪ ("Gonna Fly Now").
♪ Come on Mom, come on!
LAURITA: I'm coming, I'm coming.
LAUREN: Come on Mom!
(laughing).
I'm double stepping it.
Double step, double step.
♪ ♪ ♪ Trying hard now ♪ ♪ It's so hard now ♪♪ (camera shutter).
♪ Trying hard now ♪♪ (camera shutter).
♪ Go sista ♪ ♪ He met Marmalade down in old New Orleans ♪ ♪ Struttin' her stuff on the street ♪ ♪ She said, "Hello, hey Joe, you wanna give it a go?"
♪ ♪ Oh ♪ ♪Gitchie, gitchie, ya-ya, ya-ya ♪ ♪ Gitchie, gitchie, ya-ya, here ♪♪ LAURITA: Hey.
♪ Mocha Chocolata, ya-ya ♪ ♪ Creole Lady Marmalade ♪♪ (cheering, applause).
SINGER: Thank you.
LAURITA: Thank you!
LAUREN: That was so good, guys.
LAURITA: Yes.
What's next, what's next?
Yes.
TIM: We're heading towards our last stop, which is where everything begins in Philadelphia.
The Arch Street Meeting House, home of the Quakers.
LAUREN: So I went to, um, a Quaker school actually... TIM: Okay.
LAUREN: From kindergarten to 12th grade.
So that's like part of me.
TIM: So the Arch Street Meeting House is the largest Quaker meeting house in the country, second largest in the world.
LAUREN: Wow.
TIM: There were tiny meeting houses throughout the city, dating back to 1695.
In 1804 the Quaker women gathered, and they said "Fellas, it's nice to know you men are created equal, what about us?"
They sell off the original meeting houses, they use the money and the bricks to build this beautiful building here.
The Quaker women are the driving force behind that.
A lot of advancements here, the most important in which is the first anti-slavery society in America.
And so we'll kind of end where we began, talking about equity.
LAURITA: Yes, yes.
TIM: Any movement you see towards equality, up until the early 1900s it's very likely that you're going to find a Quaker woman's name attached to, if not at the front of that movement.
LAUREN: Ah.
TIM: That's going to lead to Philadelphia in 1793, being named the bastion of equality.
You guys ready to go inside?
LAURITA: Yes.
TIM: All right.
LAUREN: Quaker women and the fight for the vote.
TIM: Over here, the Quaker women that we talked about... LAUREN: Yeah.
TIM: Who really paved the way towards equality.
Lucretia Mott starts the first anti-slavery society.
That is life-size, she was four foot ten.
LAURITA: I was wondering.
LAUREN: Wow.
LAURITA: Yes.
LAUREN: She's so cute.
TIM: Yes, as powerful as she was tiny.
Uh, you have Alice Paul, and of course probably most famously Susan B. Anthony.
And I'd love to show you guys to the official meeting room on the other side.
LAURITA: Okay.
LAUREN: Yeah.
TIM: All right so this is the main meeting room.
It's still active to this day since 1804.
All the benches come from the original Quaker meeting houses, so the furniture here dates back to 1695.
BOTH: Wow.
TIM: These cushions here, they've been stuffed with the same horse hair since the mid 1800s.
BOTH: Wow.
TIM: And that's the whole room.
Wood floors, wood benches, again really beautiful in their simplicity.
You guys wanna grab a seat.
LAUREN: This makes me feel so nostalgic, we used to have meeting for worship once a week when I was in school.
TIM: It's incredible, you can really feel the history in this room.
We are coming near the, the end about tour, we'll say our goodbyes outside, but Philadelphia has always been my happiness.
Thank you guys for letting me show you around.
And, we started talking about the Quakers, we can end the way that the meetings start.
LAUREN: The moment of silence.
TIM: Moment of silence.
♪ ♪ LAURITA: I'm glad we came here.
LAUREN: Me too, it really takes me back.
TIM: I've had so much fun showing you guys around the city, thank you so much for being my guests today.
You guys enjoy yourselves?
LAUREN: We did.
LAURITA: Yes.
TIM: Great to hear, but unfortunately now it's time for you ladies to get out of town.
LAURITA: All right!
TIM: Just make sure you come back.
LAURITA: We will.
LAUREN: We'll come back with lots of friends and family.
LAURITA: Yes.
Thank you so much.
LAUREN: Thank you so much, Tim.
TIM: Thank you.
LAUREN: Okay so before we get out of town... LAURITA: We've got one last stop!
LAUREN: I have to have my sweets for the road.
Ooh, Shane's Confectionery!
So excited to go make some candy!
LAURITA: A lot of candy for a lot of years.
LAUREL: Welcome!
LAUREN: Hi!
LAURITA: Thank you.
LAUREL: Uh, my name's Laurel, and, um, this is Shane Confectionery.
LAUREN: Wow, Laurel this is so pretty.
LAURITA: And I love your name because I'm Laurita... LAUREN: And I'm Lauren.
LAUREL: Awesome, well that's very close, we're all like Laur... LAURITA: Laurrrr.... (laughing).
RYAN: Shane Confectionery, it's really the classic American confectionery shop.
Everything from chocolates to hard candies to licorice and the soft goods in between.
Some people call it a cathedral of confectionery.
The candy shop actually started back during the Civil War in 1863.
And it's gone through at least four different families since then.
The Shane family bought the store in 1910, uh, renovated it to the glory that we see today.
They were here for 99 years, and in 2010 my brother Eric and I bought the business and the building and restored it.
Not only did we buy the candy shop but what came with it were the recipes from the Shane family going back over 100 years.
That included the butter creams, caramels, and a lot of the other chocolate goods that Shane's became famous for.
We wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't meaningful to us, and a huge part of that is actually making things from scratch by hand.
LAUREL: And this is one of our chocolate making stations.
LAUREN: Ooh!
LAURITA: Kevin it smells so good in here.
KEVIN: Often we'll be refining 400 pounds of cocoa in here at a time so... LAUREN: Oh wow.
KEVIN: This smell right now, you know it's, uh, what you're smelling is the caramelized white chocolate.
But typically this room and this whole floor, it's very aromatic.
RYAN: Philly really has the best of both worlds, in that we have one foot deeply rooted in the past, and the tradition.
We've always embraced tourism, this is the neighborhood where America was founded.
And the candy is like a happy business, it's a positive wholesome thing, as long as you don't indulge too much.
WOMAN: All right, here you are.
LAURITA: Thank you.
LAUREN: Thank you.
LAURITA: Ooh I can't wait.
LAUREN: This is a great trip.
We've been doing a lot of traveling together, and as we go on I've just realized that each trip has something special.
Philly like was really, a town focused on their locals which I really loved.
LAURITA: You could tell that they have a lot of pride in being Philadelphians... LAUREN: Mm-hmm, Philly pride.
LAURITA: You get a real big city vibe... LAUREN: Mm-hmm.
LAURITA: But there's so many different places in the city that give you that neighborhood small town feel.
LAUREN: Right, yeah that's so true.
City... LAURITA: Sisterly love.
LAUREN: City of sisterly love.
I gotta song that you would like.
LAURITA: Okay, let's hear it.
♪ Shayo oh ♪ ♪ Ooh-oh ♪ ♪ 'Cause I dey win by default ♪ ♪ And without any doubt, oh ♪ ♪ Omo, me, I be adult, oh ♪ ♪ I no go fit take your ♪ ♪ I no go fit take your insult, oh ♪ ♪ On my mind as you dey talk, oh ♪ ♪ I put my life into my job and I know I'm in trouble ♪♪ LAURITA: Like a still shot.
LAUREN: Make them think it's a picture.
LAURITA: Like a still shot.
Like a still shot.
Like a still shot.
Like a still shot.
Like a still shot.
Am I still shot?
LAUREN: What?
(laughing).
Get closer to your hand.
Okay.
You definitely did a good job doing that cheesecake.
LAURITA: Cheese steak.
LAUREN: We're in Philly cheesecake, cheese steak, the same thing.
LAURITA: Slightly different but continue.
LAUREN: And a couple of guys, they were up to no good.
LAURITA: No good.
LAUREN: Started making trouble.
LAURITA: In my neighborhood.
So I know that Philly is called the city of brotherly love, and we also call it the sister of sisterly love... LAUREN: Nope, the city of sisterly love.
It's a blooper.
Got it.
LAURITA: So I know how Philadelphia's called the sister... (laughing).
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Clip: S1 Ep7 | 3m | Laurita and Lauren tour the largest Quaker meeting house in the country. (3m)
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Clip: S1 Ep7 | 3m 36s | Lauren and Laurita spend the night at the unique Guild House Hotel in Philadelphia. (3m 36s)
Preview: S1 Ep7 | 30s | Spectacular food and history await as Laurita and Lauren visit Philadelphia, PA. (30s)
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Clip: S1 Ep7 | 1m 26s | No trip to Philadelphia is complete without a stop at the historic Reading Terminal Market (1m 26s)
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