I’ve posted a section of Toronto store photos including a bunch from my trip last week. There’s not much commentary. If someone is interested in writing something, I’m very interested in letting them.
Click through to see the photos.
Category: Sites We Like
For your amusement: an interesting new site dedicated to Acme history.
So is that vaguely phallic or what?
The ad is from 1968, again courtesy Pat Richardson (whose site you really should visit). These are actually fairly sophisticated image ads for a smallish regional chain in late 1960s North Carolina, although some might question the “Chinese lady” image of the second ad.
I’ve been incredibly busy with school and work the past few weeks, so the updates have been slow. But it seems I won’t be taking any classes this summer, so that should be good news for the site, if not for my anticipated graduation date.
Sorry. I haven’t been doing much exploring of my own lately, although I have completed a very nice paper on the validity of paid placement search engine results and also an annotated bibliography on historical document digitization projects in the past few weeks, just in case anyone cares. But I’m planning on getting away this weekend, so there’s no telling what I might come back with (or where I might go).
Above photo courtesy of Mike in New Jersey.
The photo above shows the remains of an A&P on Mt. Prospect Avenue in Newark. It’s still selling groceries probably seventy years after A&P moved in, so the location was obviously pretty good. The sign was evidently of pretty high quality as well.
Above photo courtesy of Jess Cliffe, Vintage Seattle.
Recently spotted online:
- Vintage Seattle on the closing of the 1960s era Marina-style Safeway store in Bellevue.
- Pleasant Family Shopping, featuring some of the most beautiful vintage store photos I’ve seen anywhere.
Interesting site documenting stores from my old stomping grounds.
I just went through two months of email, some of it things I’d managed not even to see before. My apologies. Moving into my first house was more work even than I expected.
A few cool things unearthed in the big pile o’ mail:
- Labelscar: The Retail History Blog. This one really makes me feel all warm and squishy inside.
- A tribute to the Great Western Shopping Center in Columbus which features some interesting Kroger shots.
- Miscellaneous bits added to the Capsule Histories page.