1933 ad for Reeves "combination markets" (55 of their 700 locations at the time).
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- 04 Feb 2024 19:20
- Forum: History: USA Northeast
- Topic: NEW: Safeway in NYC
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5217
- 04 Feb 2024 19:07
- Forum: History: USA Northeast
- Topic: NEW: Safeway in NYC
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5217
Re: NEW: Safeway in NYC
I am pretty sure that 4028 E. Tremont Ave. store in the Bronx was an A+P. From the look if it today I'd say you may well be right. Looks like A&P may have taken over the space after Safeway was done with it in the 1940s. May even be a new building. And thanks! There will most likely never be a ...
- 04 Feb 2024 13:15
- Forum: History: USA Northeast
- Topic: NEW: Safeway in NYC
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5217
NEW: Safeway in NYC
I'm pretty excited about this one. Safeway had a brief (twenty years, 1941-1961) run in New York, and I think this should pretty much capture every location, with only a few stragglers. I have also included the pre-acquision Daniel Reeves locations and post-acquisition First National stores. https:/...
- 02 Feb 2024 10:38
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: What happened to drugstore lunch counters?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9753
Re: What happened to drugstore lunch counters?
They went beyond established markets for them like Chicago and Cincinnati during the 40s and 50s and were in a variety of places they exited mostly during the 60s: Atlanta and other cities like Columbus in Georgia; Cleveland; and New York City. Ditto Greensboro NC. They took over an old Woolworth s...
- 20 Jan 2024 00:16
- Forum: History: USA Northeast
- Topic: New location list: Portland ME, 1925-1964
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10207
Re: New location list: Portland ME, 1925-1964
Another update, this one filling in the missing years from 1967 to 1990 as best I could with newspaper ads. This only really works well when the city is small and so is the timeframe, but this one looks pretty good. I'm sure there are a few omissions, though. https://www.groceteria.com/place/us-main...
- 19 Jan 2024 19:02
- Forum: History: USA Northeast
- Topic: Acme locations in Upstate NY (1979-07-03)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4081
Re: Acme locations in Upstate NY (1979-07-03)
No geographic conspiracy involved. I just wasn't paying close enough attention. The Watertown post has been moved.
- 19 Jan 2024 12:01
- Forum: History: USA Northeast
- Topic: NEW: Watertown NY, 1925-2020
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3016
- 18 Jan 2024 14:11
- Forum: History: USA Northeast
- Topic: Acme locations in Upstate NY (1979-07-03)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4081
Acme locations in Upstate NY (1979-07-03)
Pretty good list from a newspaper ad I found looking for something else.
- 15 Jan 2024 17:35
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: What happened to drugstore lunch counters?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9753
Re: What happened to drugstore lunch counters?
It's probably an oversimplification to blame fast food and suburbanization (and less time in general spent on big shopping trips), but that's probably most of it. In many cases, but not all, the counters were not really expected to be a major profit center but to drive traffic and--especially in dep...
- 15 Jan 2024 15:14
- Forum: History: USA Midwest/Plains
- Topic: NEW: Council Bluffs, 1925-2020
- Replies: 0
- Views: 7754
NEW: Council Bluffs, 1925-2020
This is it for Iowa, at least for now. This also enhances greater Omaha:
https://www.groceteria.com/place/us-iow ... il-bluffs/
There are surprisingly few older stores still standing and recognizable in Council Bluffs. Kind of disappointing.
https://www.groceteria.com/place/us-iow ... il-bluffs/
There are surprisingly few older stores still standing and recognizable in Council Bluffs. Kind of disappointing.
- 15 Jan 2024 11:03
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: "End of the line" supermarkets
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10287
Re: "End of the line" supermarkets
Two additional Big Bear chains that are no more were NC/VA (rebranded as Food World and then merged into Harris Teeter in 1984) and Seattle. I know that a lot of the older and smaller Big Star locations in southern and eastern NC ended up as Piggly Wiggly (many of them still open) but I’m not really...
- 14 Jan 2024 23:35
- Forum: History: USA Midwest/Plains
- Topic: NEW: Cedar Rapids 1925-2020
- Replies: 0
- Views: 7650
NEW: Cedar Rapids 1925-2020
Not the most exciting one ever and it may need some tweaks. Anyway, here it is, just in time for the caucuses (which is a coincidence since I started this one a few weeks back and got sidetracked): https://www.groceteria.com/place/us-iowa/cedar-rapids/ I do very much love that Cedar Rapids had a lon...
- 14 Jan 2024 22:20
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: "End of the line" supermarkets
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10287
Re: "End of the line" supermarkets
You could also make a case for Kmart Food, which really wasn't a leased department but a chain of supermarkets operated by different licensees around the country (ACF/Wrigley, Colonial/Big Star, miscellaneous wholesalers, etc.). Aside from the name, they were, as I understand it, pretty much complet...
- 14 Jan 2024 22:04
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: "End of the line" supermarkets
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10287
Re: "End of the line" supermarkets
Loblaw--many of the stores went to a wholesaler they controlled, Peter Schmitt which ran them under the Bell's name for awhile. Schmitt was the second fiddle to Flickinger in western NY. Ultimately Loblaw sold them to management and Bell's disappeared. Exactly. This was the final disposition of the...
- 14 Jan 2024 21:50
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: "End of the line" supermarkets
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10287
Re: "End of the line" supermarkets
Loblaw US would be filed with National Tea, which they owned from the 1950s on. The whole chain disappeared region by region with New Orleans (Canal Villere/National/That Stanley/Superstore sold to Schwegmann's, which collapsed under the weight of these stores) and St Louis (mostly went to Schnucks ...