JFK Plaza (Love Park)

This guide to JFK Plaza, Philadelphia's Love Park, starts with a taco truck drawing a lunchtime line down Kennedy Boulevard in 2011, then rewinds to the plaza's 1965 opening over a parking garage and the 1976 arrival of Robert Indiana's LOVE sculpture. You'll hear how the piece was hauled away only two years later, and how skateboarders spent decades treating the granite ledges as their own terrain. Stand by the fountain today and you're watching two very different appetites for this same stretch of pavement play out.