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Manayunk Brewery Dying a Slow Death
The Manayunk Brewery serves up a delicate balance of nauseating food, tasteless brew and service without a smile. Even an ironic one.
Things used to be rough here, before yuppies saved the Roxborough-Manayunk region. Dirty, rough, and gritty. My father worked in the Manayunk paper mill, now nonexistent, when he had a new family to support. He'd kick the bums out of the way to get out of our apartment door on Grape Street and would hope that vandals hadn't utterly destroyed his car. We were dirt poor but so was everyone else. It was Manayunk, after all. But then Manayunk became chic and the mills and run-down storefronts started transforming slowly. Nicole Miller moved in. And in 1996, the true hallmark of yuppie gentrification reared its head: The Manayunk Brewery was founded as its owners unveiled their first microbrew masterpiece. Ah, things were simpler then. Gas …
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Mark J. Costello
12:23 pm on Saturday, October 23, 2010
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