Kids have always worked in Kensington Market- if not in a store, there was always some other way. One veteran of the Depression set up an orange crate on Baldwin to sell shoelaces. Another, who worked for his family in those days, remembers buying one ice skate from the junk dealer next door and buying the second one a month later when he could afford it. - Photo courtesy: Vincenzo Pietropaolo
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Kids have always worked in Kensington Market- if not in a store, there was always some other way. One veteran of the Depression set up an orange crate on Baldwin to sell shoelaces. Another, who worked for his family in those days, remembers buying one ice skate from the junk dealer next door and buying the second one a month later when he could afford it.

- Photo courtesy: Vincenzo Pietropaolo