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- 24 Apr 2024 11:48
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: What if they tore down the Food Fair but left the pylon?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 357
Re: What if they tore down the Food Fair but left the pylon?
The question now becomes why not just tear down everything pylon and all? Don't get me wrong-I'm glad they left it but it's just kind of odd. Was it that well constructed it would be more difficult to take down vs. the building? Were they afraid to demolish it for fear it might fall into the road? A...
- 19 Apr 2024 22:00
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: What if they tore down the Food Fair but left the pylon?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 357
Re: What if they tore down the Food Fair but left the pylon?
If memory serves, this is Camp Hill correct? Drove by it many times heading down to Northern Va over the years. Somewhere before that when you're headed south on the opposite side of the road there was a Weis that dates back to the '60's I believe.
- 10 Jan 2024 18:30
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: Laneco
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1081
Re: Laneco
I think they also were called Food Lane at one time. I remember they had one store in the area of NE Pa. where I lived in the earli(er) 1970's in Moosic which is adjacent to Scranton. It was a new build store in the Birney Plaza which also featured an Arlans. Neither one lasted that long (a couple y...
- 16 Nov 2023 12:04
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Old Safeway Venice CA.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2134
Re: Old Safeway Venice CA.
Being a retired USPS employee (32 years as a City Carrier) I have to echo the "junkyard" comment about the place. Why did they choose to use the front parking lot to park their vehicles? It does make the place look very trashy. The Post Office has never gotten aesthetics right unfortunatel...
- 15 Apr 2023 00:51
- Forum: History: USA Northeast
- Topic: Possibly the most well preserved A&P Centennial
- Replies: 2
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Re: Possibly the most well preserved A&P Centennial
Also at around the 2:20 mark of the video, did I not see a glimpse of the A+P logo on one of the "magic carpet" mats outside? Pretty cool stuff.
- 31 Dec 2022 00:29
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Vintage Supermarkets in Movies and TV (Old Ones Only Please)
- Replies: 178
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Re: Vintage Supermarkets in Movies and TV (Old Ones Only Please)
I strongly suspect that this exterior was created using special effects (either completely or partially), and that the interior was built especially for the film, either on a soundstage or within an existing vacant store (not necessarily an A&P). https://i.imgur.com/jQLkQqa.jpg Absolutely agree...
- 06 Dec 2022 14:01
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Lee's Discount Department Stores?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2306
Re: Lee's Discount Department Stores?
The Britt's name usually was used where Newberry had no existing identity. Gloversville, NY had BOTH a Newberry's and Britt's. Newberry's was located downtown and Britt's was in a shopping plaza built on the outskirts of town in the early '60's along an arterial highway. I even found a page from th...
- 30 Nov 2022 12:39
- Forum: History: Canada
- Topic: Thunder Bay, ON chain grocery/supermarket history, 1975-2019
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8049
Re: Thunder Bay, ON chain grocery/supermarket history, 1975-2019
Never saw wood shingles on a Loblaws facade. Was (or is) that common or just a one-off?
- 04 Aug 2022 11:59
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: A+P Store Numbers
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4260
A+P Store Numbers
I recently acquired an A+P store manual on freshness control for dry grocery with a copyright date of 1941. As you can see, it was assigned to store 46. I'm presuming the signature stamp is that of either the Divisional President or Unit Head. Is there any way of finding out where this store was loc...
- 23 Jun 2022 11:54
- Forum: History: USA Northeast
- Topic: list of ShopRite stores that became Pathmark in 1969
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1941
Re: list of ShopRite stores that became Pathmark in 1969
There were actually a couple dynamics at play here with Big V and Shoprite. First off, Big V accounted for around a quarter of Wakefern's sales volume so of course they couldn't afford to lose that. There was also the matter of a termination fee Big V would've had to pay if they left Shoprite and I ...
- 21 Jun 2022 10:59
- Forum: History: USA Northeast
- Topic: list of ShopRite stores that became Pathmark in 1969
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1941
Re: list of ShopRite stores that became Pathmark in 1969
Most of SRS's stores are acquired from Big V in their bankruptcy in 2001, but I'm not sure about the two in NJ, Clark and Spotswood. The Big V situation completely slipped my mind but as I recall wasn't Pathmark trying to make a play for a large amount of those stores as well? If they had succeeded...
- 20 Jun 2022 13:29
- Forum: History: USA Northeast
- Topic: list of ShopRite stores that became Pathmark in 1969
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1941
Re: list of ShopRite stores that became Pathmark in 1969
I noticed Clark, NJ on the list in the ad. Currently there is a very large high volume Shop-Rite directly across the street from this address. Where the Pathmark/Shop-Rite was at 49 Central Ave., there is now a Target which is listed as 45 Central Ave. Prior to that, it was a Bradlee's and even befo...
- 12 Jun 2022 09:54
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: List of A&P Centennial locations
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2078
- 22 Nov 2021 14:45
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: NEW: Scranton, 1925-2021
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1627
Re: NEW: Scranton, 1925-2021
Easiest way for me to do this is to work on the surrounding areas first which would be Moosic and Dunmore. -3512 Birney Ave. in Moosic was indeed an A+P and actually was rebranded as A-Mart when they were experimenting with that concept. Closure date seems about right. It actually was an outparcel b...
- 20 Nov 2021 19:11
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: NEW: Scranton, 1925-2021
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1627
Re: NEW: Scranton, 1925-2021
First off, THANK YOU for posting this. I grew up in this area and it brings back a lot of good memories. Don't really have time to take this apart right now but one correction to begin with would be 601 Wyoming Ave. which is listed as A+P. Those were the offices of the Scranton Unit and later the Sc...