PHOTOS: Chubby Checker, Jerry Blavat and Others Polish Their Plaques on Philly “Walk of Fame”

Chubby Checker and Jerry Blavat excited to see their bronze stars getting polished for the first time in 20 years.

Amanda Giddings and Capital Grille volunteers polish the bronze stars.

Members of International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local Union 8 volunteered to polish the bronze stars along the Avenue of the Arts. On Monday they signed a five-year contract with the theaters.

Fred Stein, executive producer for The Creative Group. He produces events in the city, like the Academy Ball and The Opera Gala.

Ed Cambron, Kimmel Center executive vice president, and the Kimmel Staff volunteered to polish the bronze stars along the Avenue of the Arts.

Pretty Poison singer Jade Starling and Mark Schulz, chairman of the Philadelphia Music Alliance Advisory Council .

Philly soul drummer Earl Young kept the beat on countless hits coming out of the City of Brotherly Love during the '60s, '70s, and mid-'80s. As one-third of the classic Baker-Harris-Young, Young played on hits by the Intruders, the O'Jays, Teddy Pendergrass, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, the Village People, and many others.

David Devan, general director of Opera Philadelphia, and Michael Barnes, president of IATSE Local 8.

Paul S. Beideman, president and CEO Avenue of the Arts Inc., Timothy Moir, chair of Friends of the Avenue of the Arts, and Dianne Semingson chair of Avenue of the Arts Inc.