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#011 February 2010/Food

Market Share: Elkins Park residents embrace the nascent Creekside Co-op

From the early ’60s through the late ’90s, the Elkins Park business district was an active town center—and Ashbourne Market its de facto town hall. The market eventually occupied a good percentage of the sidewalk-framed storefronts along the main strip, as the owners bought up other businesses to increase space. Technically, it was a grocery

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January 25, 2010
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