{"id":663978,"date":"2026-03-18T08:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T08:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/663978\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T08:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T08:17:08","slug":"philadelphias-center-city-bars-streets-packed-for-st-patricks-day-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/663978\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia&#8217;s Center City bars, streets packed for St. Patrick&#8217;s Day celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good times and a whole lot of Guinness were had this St Patrick&#8217;s Day in Philadelphia as streets and bars were filled with partygoers.<\/p>\n<p>The band at Fergie&#8217;s Pub on Samson Street had the whole bar dancing and singing along.<\/p>\n<p>At McGillin&#8217;s Olde Ale House, the green beer was flowing all day and all night long.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just been hanging out, drinking, me and my friends. It&#8217;s been a lot of fun,&#8221; Bensalem native Jordan Lee said.<\/p>\n<p>McGillin&#8217;s manager Nathan Hicks said while they are used for crowds, this day is everything to them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love this day because it&#8217;s one of those fun, festive days, and everyone here is in a good mood,&#8221; Hicks said. &#8220;No one is here drinking because the Eagles lost or the Phillies blew the World Series again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Many people say the best part of St. Patrick&#8217;s Day is spending time with friends and family. They say it&#8217;s a day they look forward to each year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At Kelliann&#8217;s Bar &amp; Grill in Spring Garden, the good times continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love coming out with the noise and the people and everyone is in a great mood,&#8221; Delaware County native Genevieve Toole said.<\/p>\n<p>Kelliann herself was even at the bar. She says they have had the bar for about 32 years and says St. Patrick&#8217;s Day and the bar hold a special place in her heart.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My brother-in-law Dennis, who passed away, he was a big part of this bar and made it to what is today,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I love it. I am all about making people happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good times and a whole lot of Guinness were had this St Patrick&#8217;s Day in Philadelphia as streets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":663979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,14655,47305,1448,2830,1311,275332,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-663978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-center-city","10":"tag-food-amp-drink","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-st-patrick039s-day","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116249195102766144","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}