Italian Market 9th Street

This guide to the Italian Market on Philadelphia's 9th Street opens with gunfire on Washington Avenue on August 17, 1936, and the numbers boss who ran his gambling rooms right at this corner. You'll hear who he was, how long he had held that territory, and why this was not the first attempt made on him. The guide then walks the market as it looks today, past cheese shops and produce stands built by immigrant families since the 1880s, and the version of this street's history the plaques choose to tell.