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9780940159785

Reading Terminal Market : An Illustrated History

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  • ISBN13:

    9780940159785

  • ISBN10:

    0940159783

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-10-01
  • Publisher: Camino Books Inc
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Summary

Reading Terminal Market has been at the heart of Philadelphia's commercial and social life from the beginning of its long and tumultuous history. Growing out of the first open-air markets of the colonial city, Reading Terminal Market -- like all venerable institutions -- has survived to its present vibrant form by adapting to and initiating change. An innovator in cold storage at the end of the nineteenth century, the market established new standards for the buying and selling of food, revolutionizing the industry. Over the next century, it responded nimbly to the advent of the telephone and the automobile, and dodged threats from the Reading Railroad, the Great Depression, World War II, the rise of the supermarket, and unionization. Today, responding to a renewed yearning for local products, Reading Terminal Market retains its central prominence in the life of Philadelphia. Book jacket.

Author Biography

David K. O'Neil, former general manager of the Reading Terminal Market, directed its overall revitalization from 1981 to 1990. He is an international market consultant and an expert in managing and developing public markets and rebuilding local economies

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Acknowledgements ix
Reading Terminal Market Chronology xi
A Brief History
1(30)
Early Markets
31(10)
Other Markets and Food Transport
41(6)
Farmers' and Twelfth Street Markets
47(4)
Reading Terminal Market
51(74)
Notes 125(2)
Selected Bibliography 127

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