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Monday, January 28, 2013

Main Line Hair Salon Set Down Roots in Cinnaminson 40-Plus Years Ago

John Melchiorre, hairstylist and businessman, has been washing, cutting and styling the locals for decades.

  It was an era when men would welcome an hour-long refuge from the world by smoking cigarettes, yakking politics or viewing the men's glossies, all while waiting their turn for the barber chair, remembers Main Line Hair Salon owner John Melchiorre, 62, of the years his dad owned a barbershop in Philadelphia. “My father used to stand on milk crates to cut hair,” Melchiorre says, chuckling. “It was a very different time.” Indeed. Melchiorre’s father, a first-generation Italian in Philadelphia began cutting hair in 1914 in a neighborhood shop at 5th and Cambria streets.  When Melchiorre was 13, he started spending more time in his dad’s shop and learned how to cut hair. Growing up, his family lived in the Wissinoming section of Philadelphia…

John Melch

11:41 am on Friday, March 1, 2013

Hey it's John, here. Check out our new facebook page: www.facebook.com/MainLineHairSalon We'll be udating and adding new photos to it regularly. Like us and leave us a comment. Thanks for all your support. John   more ›

Monday, September 12, 2011

New Food Chain Moving Into Cinnaminson

Bottom Dollar Food is bringing its colorfully coded shopping experience to the township, while offering lower prices.

With the closing of Acme and Portobello Markets, Cinnaminson residents have been hard-pressed to find nearby stores to load up on groceries. But, slated for December, discount grocer Bottom Dollar Food will open in the Main Line Shopping Center on Route 130, confirmed Bottom Dollar spokeswoman Tenisha Waldo. Since last winter, construction crews have been renovating the space vacated by the former produce store. Bottom Dollar Food is a subsidiary of Delhaize America and is run by Food Lion LLC in North Carolina. The brightly colored lime green and orange stores average 18,000 square feet and boast low prices of a limited-selection of both national brands and private label products displayed in extra wide aisles. Color-coded pricing easily …

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Alison

11:15 am on Monday, March 5, 2012

@Bruce - I didn't apply for a job at Bottom Dollar - I merely supplied a link for someone who asked since I was already on their site. Just trying to help out a Cinnaminson neighbor!   more ›

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