Man. So just a few weeks after the Italian Market got a commemorative plaque, someone goes ahead and knocks the plaque into the ground, destroying it.
See what happens when we give you nice things, Philadelphia?
Author/historian Celeste Morello, the woman behind the efforts to get the plaque up, suspects it’s over the naming. The plaque commemorates the “South Ninth Street Curb Market,” not the Italian Market. In the past, Jewish, Irish & African-American vendors had a significant presence at the predominantly Italian street market… the same way that Mexicans and Vietnamese do today:
“It’s a shame,” Morello says, calling the culprit a “small-minded, cowardly person with an evil heart.” Morello, herself an Italian-American, and some members of the Ninth Street Curb Market Businessmen’s Association didn’t have a problem with the state’s decision to leave the word Italian out of the marker.
Man. So just a few weeks after the Italian Market got a commemorative plaque, someone goes ahead and knocks the plaque into the ground, destroying it.
See what happens when we give you nice things, Philadelphia?
Author/historian Celeste Morello, the woman behind the efforts to get the plaque up, suspects it’s over the naming. The plaque commemorates the “South Ninth Street Curb Market,” not the Italian Market. In the past, Jewish, Irish & African-American vendors had a significant presence at the predominantly Italian street market… the same way that Mexicans and Vietnamese do today:
