Near Downtown 1

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Near Downtown 1

 

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Fast food restaurants flourish between Seventh and Eighth streets on old St. Louis Ave. (Martin Luther King Drive), despite $20 tax rate.   But Arthur Treacher's nearby didn't fare so well.

 

Marty Miller, the old East Side Shade and Fixture Co., is a survivor in the Ninth-Tenth street complex on MLK/State St.  Marty, who says he won't even tell himself his age, says he is in business because he doesn't know how to get out.  He had varied investments.  Marty said he died five years ago when his beauutiful wife passed away.

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