Fairmount Bastille Day Festival at Eastern State Penitentiary

Fairmount Bastille Day Festival on Fairmount Avenue between 22nd & Corinthian features the Fairmount Pet Shoppe Pet Parade at 2:00 p.m. Career Wardrobes French Fashion Show at 2:30 p.m., and Live Music starting at 3pm. Enjoy $3 Kronenbourg specials and French fare from neighborhood restaurants, including London Grill, The Belgian Cafe, Bishops Collar, Bridgids Bar & Restaurant, Jacks Firehouse, Luigis Pizza Fresca, Mugshots Coffeehouse, Rembrandts, Trio, and Urban Saloon. At 5:30 p.m., dozens of French revolutionaries, armed with muskets and cannon, singing La Marseillaise, will storm the grim walls of the Bastille (Eastern State Penitentiary, which has an historic connection to the French Bastille). They will capture Marie Antoinette (portrayed by Terry McNally, co-owner of London Grill) and, ignoring her mocking cries of Let them eat Tastykake! drag her to a real, functioning guillotine, built for the occasion as 2,000 Tastykakes are flung from the prisons towers. Saturday Night the Revolutionary Fun continues all over Fairmount- $3 Kronenbourg Beers July 8-11. Party like it's 1789!

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