WHEN word got out that the stores in the 3700 block of Walnut Street were slated for demolition, long-time customers of the Pennsylvania Book Center were worried — especially when the Barnes & Noble-operated Penn Bookstore opened in Sansom Common. But the Penn
Book Center finally found a home at 34th and Sansom Streets. Owner Achilles Nickles, C’54, (right) and manager Keith Helmuth look relieved.