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- 20 Jan 2024 00:16
- Forum: History: USA Northeast
- Topic: New location list: Portland ME, 1925-1964
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11200
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 ...
- 19 Jan 2024 19:02
- Forum: History: USA Northeast
- Topic: Acme locations in Upstate NY (1979-07-03)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5830
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: 4171
- 18 Jan 2024 14:11
- Forum: History: USA Northeast
- Topic: Acme locations in Upstate NY (1979-07-03)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5830
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: 15287
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 ...
- 15 Jan 2024 15:14
- Forum: History: USA Midwest/Plains
- Topic: NEW: Council Bluffs, 1925-2020
- Replies: 0
- Views: 10008
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: 16023
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: 9894
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 ...
- 14 Jan 2024 22:20
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: "End of the line" supermarkets
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16023
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 ...
- 14 Jan 2024 22:04
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: "End of the line" supermarkets
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16023
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: 16023
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 ...
- 12 Jan 2024 11:08
- Forum: History: USA Midwest/Plains
- Topic: Elkhart Martin's
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4469
Re: Elkhart Martin's
I think I have a print copy of that book at home. I'll see what I can run down. I only got as far as South Bend and Mishawka when I was mapping the area.
- 10 Jan 2024 09:15
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawai'i (Excluding California)
- Topic: NEW: Tulsa OK, 1925-2021
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6823
Re: NEW: Tulsa OK, 1925-2021
The locations on Denver and 61st are both in the list. Broken Arrow is not because I didn’t dive into the suburbs with this pass. Maybe someday. I’ll have to see if I can dig up that diamond-shaped location. It sounds really interesting. 555 N. Denver was a marina that’s still standing and there’s ap ...
- 04 Jan 2024 13:05
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: South Florida Updates
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5543
Re: South Florida Updates
Thanks! I will correct that spelling issue.
I think Carl's showed up in the Miami-Dade stuff as well, and I will be adding new data to that at some unspecified point in the future as well.
- 04 Jan 2024 13:02
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: New Orleans area updates
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6879
Re: New Orleans area updates
Yeah, i will be adding footnotes and something of a timeline soon. Just haven't gotten it there yet,