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- 08 Dec 2014 10:10
- Forum: History: USA Northeast
- Topic: From NJ.com - Photos of groceries/supermarkets
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6886
From NJ.com - Photos of groceries/supermarkets
Just passing along this link: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2014/12/vintage_photos_of_supermarkets_in_nj.html#incart_river Forty-nine photos ranging from the 1960s back of grocery stores and supermarkets in New Jersey. The veterans among us may have seen many of these already but I hadn't. Looks ...
- 25 Sep 2014 07:32
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: 1960's era Giant in Alexandria,VA to close -only 16,000sq ft
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8501
Re: 1960's era Giant in Alexandria,VA to close -only 16,000s
Thanks for the photos. Interesting that they did take the time to cover the old logo on the storefront with the latest version of the Giant trademark.
- 25 Aug 2014 11:12
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Anyone in DC/MD/VA area remember S. Klein's?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15699
Re: Anyone in DC/MD/VA area remember S. Klein's?
I did... and I see the (now former) sign in Newark, New Jersey.
Wikipedia notes that "On The Square" refers to "Square Deals" not necessarily the store's location (i.e. the anchor store in Union Square in New York, you're right about that, Rich).
Wikipedia notes that "On The Square" refers to "Square Deals" not necessarily the store's location (i.e. the anchor store in Union Square in New York, you're right about that, Rich).
- 25 Aug 2014 11:00
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Heir to Leaf Brands acquires abandoned Macy's legacy marques
- Replies: 4
- Views: 15894
Re: Heir to Leaf Brands acquires abandoned Macy's legacy mar
Fascinating story. In addition to the 21 "fallen flag" department store names mentioned above, I also thought of Sibley's, which was based here in the Rochester (NY) area and was taken over by Kaufmann's before Kaufmann's was in turn swallowed into Macy's. Somewhat off topic: There is a Le...
- 18 Aug 2013 15:49
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Dairy Queen Through the Years
- Replies: 15
- Views: 28392
Re: Dairy Queen Through the Years
Boy, it's been a while since I posted on this topic. In August 2012, the Rochester NY area welcomed back DQ after a ten-year or so absence when the last one (a DQ/Orange Julius combo in the ill-fated Irondequoit Mall) closed down. The new location is a Grill and Chill on Jefferson Road in Henrietta,...
- 28 Dec 2012 10:15
- Forum: History: USA Northeast
- Topic: Anyone remember/know about Bells Supermarket or Super Duper?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 28459
Re: Anyone remember/know about Bells Supermarket or Super Du
Thanks for that link! There are several Star Markets locations in the Rochester area mentioned in the comments even though the main topic is the Albany-area stores. It is noted that the Rochester and Albany locations weren't related.
- 20 Dec 2012 11:57
- Forum: History: USA Northeast
- Topic: Anyone remember/know about Bells Supermarket or Super Duper?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 28459
Re: Anyone remember/know about Bells Supermarket or Super Du
When I lived very close to the Lake Ontario shoreline, the closest supermarket to me was a Bells which was across the Genesee River in Irondequoit. It's now an IGA, possibly without a change in ownership but I'm not sure about that. I shopped there semi-regularly. There was also a Bells in the large...
- 22 Jul 2012 17:00
- Forum: History: USA Northeast
- Topic: Grand Union
- Replies: 76
- Views: 95764
Re: Grand Union
Interesting... the store in AuSable Forks, New York was a definitely a Grand Union last time I was there, which was years ago. I believe it then flipped to a Tops for a while. Then, when Tops' parent Royal Ahold had, er, issues and Tops was sold off, the store went back to being a Grand Union. And n...
- 06 Mar 2012 12:46
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: A & P book author on the radio
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4200
Re: A & P book author on the radio
I just finished this book. A great read and an interesting study of both the company and the grocery business in general. Quite a number of personal takeaways, not the least of which was how their headquarters was once just a few blocks from where I first lived, in Jersey City. That building is stil...
- 21 Feb 2012 10:31
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Defunct grocery chains you personally shopped at
- Replies: 45
- Views: 62989
Re: Defunct grocery chains you personally shopped at
New Jersey: at least Super Saver and Two Guys, probably could add Grand Union.
New York: P&C, Edwards (assuming it's completely gone; the Rochester area experiment is over)
San Jose, California: PW, Cosentinos
New York: P&C, Edwards (assuming it's completely gone; the Rochester area experiment is over)
San Jose, California: PW, Cosentinos
- 16 Sep 2011 14:32
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Supermarket Sweep TV Show from 1967
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4925
Supermarket Sweep TV Show from 1967
I hope this is the right place to mention this; if not, please feel free to move it... I have a "crossover" from the Internet Discussion Group "Game Show Forum" to which I also belong. (Yes, I have rather eclectic interests.) The original 1967 incarnation of the television game s...
- 30 Jul 2011 15:46
- Forum: History: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: Sears Hardware, dead chain?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14635
Re: Sears Hardware, dead chain?
In what may be a related development, a small Sears has opened in a local "strip shopping center" (in which the "anchor" store is a Tops Supermarket). It's in a former Blockbuster Video location, so you can get a sense of the rather modest size. I have not actually been in there ...
- 07 Jun 2011 22:10
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: JCPenney mall locations
- Replies: 16
- Views: 27200
Re: JCPenney mall locations
This is subject to faulty memory, but I believe that the smallish JCPenney store in Menlo Park Mall in New Jersey (described as "dry goods only" on the Wikipedia page) was "off to the side" of the main alignment of the mall. I think that the anchors at each end were Montgomery Wa...
- 18 Apr 2011 11:12
- Forum: History: USA Northeast
- Topic: Acme 72nd Birthday Sale Ad - February 1963
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3312
Acme 72nd Birthday Sale Ad - February 1963
While researching something else, I happened across the archive of a weekly newspaper that was once published near where I once lived in Central New Jersey. http://archive.woodbridgelibrary.org/Archive/CarteretPress/1963/1963-02-07/pg_0004.pdf At the bottom right of this scanned page is an Acme Supe...
- 11 Apr 2011 17:18
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Dairy Queen Through the Years
- Replies: 15
- Views: 28392
Re: Dairy Queen Through the Years
My first taste of DQ would have been coming back from Palisades Amusement Park which straddled the border of Fort Lee and Cliffside Park, New Jersey. I was very young when this occurred so I doubt that I will be exact on the location, but I think it was on Palisade Avenue in either the very upper re...