Rick Nichols: With $3 million in new renovations, the beat goes on at the Reading market.

They once seemed like original equipment, perpetual-motion machines, but a few of the iron men at the Reading Terminal Market have made their exits of late. You stay open 120 years, there's going to be turnover. First, Harry Ochs, the inimitable butcher, passed on. He used to hold court off center court, breaking down sides of beef. You can still see the old meat hooks.