Recent additions to the site:
Category: Site
New book that you want:
…and not just because I’m several footnotes and an acknowledgement in it. This one is really good and was written by a colleague of mine at UNCG. There will be a better review coming soon, but you can pre-order now. It drops on 1 August.
Newly added since last I bothered to update the front page:
Bloomington (Indiana) Chain Grocery/Supermarket Locations, 1929-2020
Kansas City Area, updated with the addition of:
- Kansas City (Kansas) Chain Grocery/Supermarket Locations, 1925-1992
- Independence Chain Grocery/Supermarket Locations, 1924-1991
- Shawnee-Mission still to come
Napa Valley Chain Grocery/Supermarket Locations, 1930-1979
Lancaster (Ohio) Chain Grocery/Supermarket Locations, 1925-2020
Springfield (Ohio) Chain Grocery/Supermarket Locations, 1925-2020
True North strong and free:
I’m off this weekend for some quality time in Canada. After a weeklong conference in Toronto, I’ll be going other places yet to be determined. This will be my first trip to Toronto post-pandemic (it’s usually an annual destination for me but I was thwarted by an early winter storm last year) and I am much excited, particularly following my big recent Toronto update. If you see me in Loblaws, say hello.
I haven’t been chatty lately, but I have added new stuff over the past couple of months.
New location lists:
BIG updates:
I’m especially excited about the Toronto updates. This was a major expansion helped along by access I now have to a lot more digitized material that has allowed me to fill in a good number of franchise and other gaps. Toronto is one of my “adopted hometowns” and is one of the places I want to give a special focus to, so there will be more to come. I’ll be adding more photos and also expanding the timeline.
The content on Groceteria comes from three primary sources: the main site, the message board, and the Google Sheets that generate the location lists. Right now, you can’t search across all those. The easiest (and free) way to accomplish that is to add a custom Google search to the site. I don’t love that option (especially the look and feel and the ads) but I’m testing different things and this is thing number one.
Try this and let me know what you think.
It’s an external link because I don’t want to take it live as a search box on the site yet.
In case you haven’t taken a look recently, this is how the map of location lists is looking these days.
Just added tonight: a quick look at Brockville, Ontario.
In which I give a public talk about Triad supermarket history for the High Point Historical Society at the High Point Museum.
It was a great crowd and this was tons of fun!
By request from a Twitter poll, Amarillo chain grocery.supermarket locations, 1925-2020. It’s more interesting than I expected, I must admit. Lots of independents and small chains, plus an unusual (for the late 1950s) entrance through acquisition of a local chain by Safeway.
For those of you who have departed Twitter, I’m trying to start listing the updates more frequently here (and on the RSS feed should that still be your thing).
The latest batch of new pages:
- Lexington, Kentucky, 1925-2020
- Lewiston and Auburn, Maine, 1930-1966
- Hamilton/Fairfield, Ohio, 1925-2020
- Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1925-2020
And some updates:
And here’s what’s on the horizon over the next few months.
Looking through some old files tonight. This is what the site looked like twenty years ago this week, in case that’s a thing you needed to see today.