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In New Town food desert, Jacksonville residents try to stay nourished


Eldora Wilson wishes she could turn the clock back to the 1970s. She remembers not only when ground beef was just 90 cents a pound, but when she didn t have to leave her New Town neighborhood to buy groceries.
As she recalls, everyone in her neighborhood did their grocery shopping at the Daylight Grocery store on the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Kings Road, a short walk from her house on Steele Street.  
Most weekends, Wilson said, the store was crowded with shoppers, many from her neighborhood.
That was good, because my daddy used to go there and he had an account set up with them, Wilson said. He was a railroad man and he got paid every two weeks, and that s when he would pay on the account for the food we got. They had everything, and it was convenient for everybody. ....

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