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by maynesG
05 Feb 2011 21:56
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: Possible former Centennial A&P
Replies: 12
Views: 7669

Re: Possible former Centennial A&P

I was in the area on my day off and I stopped into the Super Fresh picked up a few items and asked the Assistant Manager if this was the original store. He told me that he had worked in this store in the 70!s as a kid when it was A&P and as far as he knew it was the only A&P in this center. ...
by maynesG
02 Feb 2011 20:00
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Vintage Supermarket Music
Replies: 6
Views: 13127

Re: Vintage Supermarket Music

Hi, Yes you spelled it correctly I didn!T ! That makes perfect sense who needs a pharmacy more then folks who remember when the oldies were new! Ah, Food Chains need those folks, thier Kids and their Grand Kids . Kids to grow the busines and can!t rely on Father Time, to provide tomorows customers.
by maynesG
01 Feb 2011 21:00
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Vintage Supermarket Music
Replies: 6
Views: 13127

Re: Vintage Supermarket Music

Musiak or the music that was piped into stores had two purposes 1. Two make the customer relax and thus spend more time in the store, thus buying more impulse items. 2. Store Cast, which was owned by Acme, was used to sell vendors in store Ad Time around a Music Program. The Store Manager in the lat...
by maynesG
01 Feb 2011 20:48
Forum: History: USA Northeast
Topic: A&P in Verona, NJ?
Replies: 2
Views: 2695

Re: A&P in Verona, NJ?

Hi, it been about thirty years, but the jeep dealership just migth be the old Safeway/Finast in Verona. I seem to remember that the building and lot became a car dealership. However Acme and A&P also had stores in town on Bloomfield Avenue.
by maynesG
27 Jan 2011 19:50
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: Did Safeway have stores like this in MD/VA?
Replies: 4
Views: 3410

Re: Did Safeway have stores like this in MD/VA?

I have seen Safeways of the period with sign posts just like the Fiesta in the picture. However, the Safeway in Closter had a Smaller but similar post( only one store in the lot). The store in Easton has the more traditional post and round Safeway exit and entrance signs. The ex Safeway in Seaford d...
by maynesG
27 Jan 2011 08:14
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: Did Safeway have stores like this in MD/VA?
Replies: 4
Views: 3410

Re: Did Safeway have stores like this in MD/VA?

Hi, It reminds me of the former Safeway in Seaford De, the current one in Easton Md and the former Safeway/Finast in Closter N.J.. I would say late 50!s, early 1960!s. Not all Safeways had barrel Roofs, or were Marinas.
by maynesG
13 Jan 2011 20:38
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: Acme Markets closing another round of stores
Replies: 10
Views: 7599

Re: Acme Markets closing another round of stores

Hi, Scandal? If you check the time period. You would find out that A&P!s Bronx Division, Daitch ShopWell, Krasdale and many other Chains and wholesalers located in old city sections had the same problems. As for Acme Baltimore warehouse, it was being phased out before the division closed. The Ea...
by maynesG
12 Jan 2011 22:19
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: Acme Markets closing another round of stores
Replies: 10
Views: 7599

Re: Acme Markets closing another round of stores

Hi, Brand new buildings have doors that open to the out side world. Mice when the weather is cold do come in. Thousands of people and vendors enter the building every day. Who knows the conditions of their homes or trucks or distribution centers. If every building around you has infestations. there ...
by maynesG
12 Jan 2011 16:24
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Vintage Supermarkets in Movies and TV (Old Ones Only Please)
Replies: 178
Views: 142338

Re: Vintage Supermarkets in Movies and TV (Old Ones Only Please)

Hi, I can tell you that there was a Finast and and A&P in Tuckahoe. The Big Bear was a name of a huge supermarket in Jersey City in the late 40!s and owned by Food Fair.
by maynesG
10 Jan 2011 18:53
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: Acme Markets closing another round of stores
Replies: 10
Views: 7599

Re: Acme Markets closing another round of stores

Hi, Rat Infestation in the Warehouse did not help them, bur that was not the reason they closed. (It wasn!t uncommon for rodent, bug or Rats to infect stores or warehouses in that time period. What killed this market was small stores, a contract that was expensive and restrictive. Middle class fligt...
by maynesG
08 Jan 2011 21:06
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: Charlie's Thriftway
Replies: 7
Views: 4282

Re: Charlie's Thriftway

Hi, Yes now I know what store we are talking about. This Shop & Bag was very similar to Charlies Thriftway and about ten other stores, that were built at that time. It was owned by the same Shop &Bag owner who originaly owned the Aston Shop & Bag and operated a store on the other side of...
by maynesG
08 Jan 2011 11:16
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: Charlie's Thriftway
Replies: 7
Views: 4282

Re: Charlie's Thriftway

Hi, The original Genuardis was located in the shopping center across route 100 from the K Mart in a former A&P. This building was the last opened in the old Philadelphia Division. It only lasted a few years as a Genuardis. I barely remember the Clemens in Exton. In fact the last time I was there...
by maynesG
06 Jan 2011 22:33
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: Charlie's Thriftway
Replies: 7
Views: 4282

Re: Charlie's Thriftway

Hi Yes Giunta is correct.They moved from a small downtown Italian American Market as you entered West Chester to the location that is now a Giant. They always had a great Deli. I remember the other folks when they had the old store on Route 322 and not much was around them/ I Knew that Giunta had pu...
by maynesG
06 Jan 2011 16:56
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: Charlie's Thriftway
Replies: 7
Views: 4282

Re: Acme, Parkesburg PA.

Hi, There were several Charlies stores. The Thriftway that you were speaking of was the last of them. It was in the waining days of Fleming Oaks when the Wholesaler was lending money to store owners to build brand new stores Others( Thriftway governors Plaza De, Cooks Thriftway Smyrna De, The Shop &...
by maynesG
01 Jan 2011 18:58
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: Former Penn Fruit/Brandywine IGA/ Forman Mills to be closed
Replies: 8
Views: 4845

Re: Former Penn Fruit/Brandywine IGA/ Forman Mills to be closed

Hi, The Foodland/Meat Land in Dover about 1990, sometime after the Acme was open. The Shoppers Paradise in 1989, that end of town with the nearly empty Dover Mall, and the strip center they were in almost 70% empty killed them. Yes, the locations you have mentioned were all Meatlands ( the Acme in M...