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Kate Dailey

@katedailey.bsky.social
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Managing Editor, Features at the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Kate Dailey @katedailey.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The Inquirer Sports Bron-O-Meter with the needle all the way to the right, indicating "It's On!"
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Kate Dailey @katedailey.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I appreciate how the use of the "1" in place of the "I" suggests there is a second HOAGIE plate somewhere in our region.
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Kate Dailey @katedailey.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Stephanie I have slowly been amassing Very Philly License plates with the intent of sharing them with you!
Tesla with PA plate that reads EV JAWN
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Kate Dailey @katedailey.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
And of course, there is the woman, the myth, the icon herself, Rachel Billebault. I got to know Rachel first through @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social's vivid and detailed writing, and then through many phone calls, but it wasn't until we met in person that I fully appreciated her aura and energy.
Rachel in 1988 at the opening of her club Harlow's in the Bourse.
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Kate Dailey @katedailey.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Throughout the editing process, I would often come across an detail and think "This is wild. But is it true? How could I even fact check this?" And then there would be a Daily News clipping from 1972 that said exactly that.
A vintage newspaper clipping: "A soft-spoken little man cornered owner Stanley (Bo) Rosenbleeth in Harlow's the other night and asked her for a "Harlow pin". This is a little piece of jewelry made by Jonathan Stampler for Harlow, hostess at the Bank st. discotheque. 
Rosenbleeth told the man he gives the pins only to "special customers and friends." 
"I'm a friend of Harlow's," the man said. 
"Oh yeah? What's your name?"
"Truman Capote," said the man.
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Kate Dailey @katedailey.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
As they say in the article, Harlow was a star "at a time when Philadelphia had enough daily and weekly newspapers to support over a dozen full-time columnists, documenting the movements and drama of the city’s celebrity circuit." Do you love vintage #philly history? You'll love this story.
An archive photo of Harlow's club at Bank and Chestnut street in the 1970s.
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Kate Dailey @katedailey.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Most of the story, they told me, was in plain sight all along. It lived in the pages of our paper - deep in the archives, where the woman known simply as Harlow was covered incessantly in the 1970s.
Headlines and glamorous photos from Philadelphia papers in the 1970s. "For Harlow, Life is a Cheerful Drag". "Harlow 'couldn't be happier' at Sex Change",
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Kate Dailey @katedailey.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social first told me about Harlow five years ago, in sort of a "wouldn't it be cool to track her down" way, but she remained elusive. When I reconnected with them this year to see if we could revisit the idea, they were already deep into working with Rachel on her memoirs.
Harlow in a velvet and chiffon Oscar de la Renta dress with a large flower around her neck.
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