According to the song, “Oh, you can’t get to Heaven on the Frankford el…‘Cause the Frankford el goes straight to…” Where?

In their song, “Beat Up Guitar”, the Hooters, an American rock band, sang about a beat-up guitar being “the keys to the world” and Frankford being just another stop on the journey through life.

Rob Hyman and Eric Bazilian, who met at the University of Pennsylvania in 1971, put together a club band, “Baby Grand”, which played during that decade. They then formed the Hooters, who played their first concert on July 4, 1980. The Hooters found commercial success and still play concerts.

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority’s Market-Frankford Line joins the Frankford elevated train with the Market Street subway. The system’s northern terminus is the Frankford Transportation Center in the neighborhood of that name. The southern terminus is at the 69th Street Transportation Center in Upper Darby, a suburb that abuts West Philadelphia. The subway provides convenient rapid-transit for Penn’s campus.

Originally on the Hooters’ 1989 album, “Zig Zag”, “Beat Up Guitar” also appears on 1996’s “Hooterization: A Retrospective”. The song is explained in these lyrics: “And I may leave this place tomorrow…But my soul is here to stay…In the town that rocked the nation…Philadelphia, PA”.