The Gazette and Daily from York, Pennsylvania • Page 5

The Gazette and Daily, York, Saturday Morning, April 13, 1946 A Im Living Tradition-Yor Produce araete mi nil Mi 4 Stands rent for a little less than 25 cents a day for the 13 market days in the month and around-the-wall stands cost $12-per-foot-per year. Kline estimates that there are about 188 individual owners, leasing from one to a stands. During most of the year the farmers bring in jpro-duce from their farms for sale, but during the winter months they sometimes find it necessary to buy in the Baltimore markets. Many stands are closed during the winter for lack of produce. Most of the people tending stands in the market have been on the job for years and have built up a steady clientel.

Whole families work together with the mother usually in charge. Customers come to market with their own shopping baskets and wander among the aisles picking and choosing from the heavily-laden stands. The market operates at a leisurely pace, aware of its age, tradition and standing There is a friendliness between the families that tend the stands and very few The attitude is not so much of salesmanship but one of "here's the stuff, if you like it, buy it." Fifty-eight years ago, after the market sheds in Continental square were torn down, Central Market was built on the corner of North Beaver and West Philadelphia streets. Today it is still functioning as a place where the small farmer can sell his produce although through the years regular retail merchants have leased stands as another outlet for their merchandise. It is one of four existing markets in York and fairly typical of the other three Eastern, City and Farmers.

The 800 stands in the market are loaded with every conceivable product of the farm and the farmer's home. Meat, fish, vegetables, delicatessen, mingle with pasteries, rolls, bread; flowers, aprons, embroidery and home-made Pennsylvania Dutch candy and delicacies. Scattered through the market are restaurants serving food and soft drinks. W. F.

Kline, in his 12th year as market supervisor, is still curious as to how much money is taken in on a Saturday, busiest of the three market days per week. "ijf" PIES AND GRANDCHILDREN The hunger-stirring aroma of fresh home-baked pies mingles with the odor of flowers and fruits, vegetables and meats, that permeates Central Market. Non -customers like five-year-old Larry Miller sniff the aroma hungrily although not all of them can persuade Grandmother Mrs. Clayton Fans, York township, to hand over a peach pie. Although most of the pies and cakes now sold in the market are handled by the larger bakeries, there are still many small stands loaded with home-made creations, baked according to old traditional recipes.

111 Jtl fcSMSP-irP w-' -m ft. ll If THE FARMER'S WIFE Typical of the farmer's wife in the market is Mrs. E. J. Lieberknecht, of Hellam, who has been tending a stand in the market for 25 years.

She sells eggs and poultry. She sits patiently through market days at the stand loaded with platters of eggs and trimmed poultry waiting for some of hr regular customers to come by. The produce she sells comes from her farm and she is proud of the quality of the goods. Here there is no woman tending market with her apron pocket serving as a cash register and the appeal of fresh chicken on a salesman. it -(WMm-" II If iAi THE OLD DAYS Colorful bunches of yellow jonquils and pansies attract wandering customers in the Central Market.

Cora I. Fetrow of Manchester, has been selling flowers in market for 34 years. She recalls nostalgically the day she first sold lilacs. "Times haven't changed much when it comes to buying flowers," she commented. "Folks like to take home a big bunch of jonquils or lilacs." There is a nostalgic recalling of these days all through the market.

Women spend the idle moments when business is slow recalling stories of years back. And there are those who are no longer in the market but who come back to sit around and lounge and breathe in the aroma of the place. George Aldinger and C. A. Hoffman, left, are idling iway a few hours seated in a vacant stand.

They are content to sit back and watch the shoppers, wise and tolerant in their 1 Cv-. il A I I cr 1 rTY A 1 BOUQUETS AND APRONS A few eggs, some home-made bonnets and aprons, jarred preserves and odd vegetables are the stock-in-trade of Samuel A. Knaub of Zion Mew, right, who has helped his wife tend market for 40 years. Mrs. Knaub makes the aprons and bonnets at home, styled In the classic designs of the area.

Representative of the younger generation in the market is Mrs. Harold Hartman of Spry who tends stand for her mother-in-law. Most of the stands are family affairs with sons and daughters and grandchildren helping with the work. Mrs. Hartman is keeping her vegetables fresh with water, a practice used throughout the market..