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The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson, Ernesto Portillo Jr. column: Do county antique shows hurt stores?(Column)
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AZ Daily Star (Tucson, AZ)
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March 14, 2007
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2007 The Arizona Daily Star. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Byline: Ernesto Portillo Jr.
Mar. 14--For four years, Daryl Lewis has sold antique furniture, plates and other items from his East Grant Road store. He'll be the first to say the antique business is a difficult one. Antiques are luxury items. Then there's eBay, where antiques proliferate, often at lower prices. Lewis tries to overcome the competition, local and on the Internet, as best he can. Fair competition is part of doing business, he knows. But he also faces competition from an unexpected source: Pima County. The county sponsors an antique fair one day a month at the Lew Sorensen Community Center on East Tanque Verde Road and will soon begin a second ...
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