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A Time of Transition The 1970s and 1980s ushered in major changes for the North Market area. The meat packing industry that had been the main employer was starting to relocate its facilities to western Kansas and the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles. One by one the packing plants closed. Better jobs lay elsewhere and one by one, the old families, both Latino…
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