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November 2008 Articles:

A ‘gem in Germantown,’ Center in the Park
celebrates its 40th anniversary


two_women.jpgBy Elaine Welles

Frances Moss and Carlotta Fareira have
shared many good times at Center in the Park (CIP).

“By the time I joined, I felt like I had already been a member,” Fareira says, recalling visits to CIP with her mother, Helen V. Fareira, who was one of the women who met in 1968 at the Germantown YWCA to form what became CIP.

CIP, which now has 6,000 members, moved to its present location in Vernon Park at 5818 Germantown Ave. in 1986.

Fareira’s mother was among those who helped raise funds to convert the long-shuttered Carnegie Library into a senior center.

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Columns, books by Joe ‘Bag-a-Doughnuts’
recall way back when in South Philly

Vet has fond memories of ‘The Waffleman’

By John Oliver Mason
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Joe 'Bag-a-Doughnuts' Sbaraglia in the Melrose Diner: 'Things had changed.'








Just about everyone in South Philadelphia knows “Joe Bag-a-Doughnuts.”

He writes a nostalgia column, “The Waffleman,” in the weekly Philadelphia Public Record, and has written a series of books on what South Philadelphia was like “way back when.”  More

 



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09.08.10 : Cheesecake Factory
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