OFFICIAL ROAST REPORT
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For much of its history, Phoenixville was known for being home to the Phoenix Iron Works. Following the company's closure in the 1980s and the resulting economic downturn, the town has been noted in recent years for the economic revitalization that has since taken place. Nothing says "we've moved on" like having an entire festival where you literally burn a giant wooden phoenix every year because apparently one symbolic death wasn't enough.
A few years back, local blogger Joe Sixpack wrote that "downtown Phoenixville has more breweries per square foot than anywhere else in America." It's the family-friendly, East Coast mini-version of Burning Man. When your biggest cultural achievement is being discount Burning Man with more parking and fewer drugs, you've really found your lane.
Downtown Phoenixville is more or less synonymous with Bridge Street, where most of the bars, restaurants and shops are located. You can get a mule, old fashioned, orange crush or glass of wine for $8. Eight dollars for a mule in a town that peaked when they made railroad spikes - at least the gentrification comes with happy hour specials.
Phoenixville is home to the highest recorded temperature in Pennsylvania history, 111 °F (44 °C), set on July 10, 1936. Even Mother Nature looked at Phoenixville and said "let me really cook these people." The town literally broke Pennsylvania's thermometer and somehow that's still not the hottest take you'll hear about living there.
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