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For the period of a long generation when the sportsmen of America thought of Philadelphia they thought, also, of John Krider,
master workman of dependable guns and fishing rods. John Krider is gone, but the sturdy old colonial building at the northeast
corner of Second and Walnut Streets still houses his shop and store, now conducted, in 1918, by L.C. Siner & Co. The upper
floors present the appearance of a veritable "old curiosity shop" of sporting materials. The building occupies the site of
the Drinker residence, built in the days of William Penn, wherein, according to tradition, the first white child of Philadelphia
nativity was born.
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