`Market Minute’ Flourishes Into Signature Event
Photographs of the early days of Jackson Street Market Days depict an event trying to get its footing in Harlingen. It’s 2001. What few booths and vendors that show up at the street festival’s inception space out along a city block in downtown Harlingen. A now long-gone Lack’s furniture store serves as the primary backdrop. There were doubts back then that Market Days would stick in Harlingen. “My husband said,…