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Some of the DQ's I've been to including the one at the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport have photos of earlier DQs. Take a look next time you're in one; fascinating!

They were in Western New York also. Several Hills stores were in Rochester and I believe that they may have been Two Guys before and Caldor after.

Well, this shopper won't be happy... that was the Safeway in between the hotel and my in-laws and was a perfect place to stop. It was a "manageable sized store" as well which is important when you're from out of town and are too tired with two tired out-of-time-zone-sync kids to be searchi...

Very interesting, thanks for sharing! My principal hobby is model railroading, and my layout is set in 1963. As such I'm particularly interested in the state of the business during that year. I'll "borrow" any data I can get for potential use; for example I'll have a Safeway on my layout b...

(snip) Of course, Grand Union as a company no longer exists, but there ARE still stores with the Grand Union name (actually GU Family markets, but most of the older stores still have the onld name on them) - currently 36, 22 in NY (including several just re-opened under the GU name which Tops had b...

The last time I was in the Mall at Steamtown in Scranton, PA, there was still an Arthur Treachers' in the food court there-- I was quite surprised since I thought it was completely gone. It's been about a year so I am not sure it is still there. There were AT's in New Jersey for a brief time as well...

Thanks Toby.

I recall both Korvettes and Caldor (where I worked for 9 months in 1981-82) had the letter codes for LPs. This made it easy to both change regular prices (alter the large signs) and have sales.

Yes, you're right, wrong duet partner cited on that song.

Don't want to go too far off topic here so I will just mention that she has a website.

Now, how about the Korvettes record department...

The random selection of a song on my iTunes dislodged a memory that I'd like to have confirmed or corrected. The branch of E.J. Korvettes in Woodbridge, NJ in which we shopped during the late 1960's and 1970's had a record department, in which there was a small behind the counter partitioned shelf h...

I am pretty sure that the Woolworth's in the Menlo Park Mall in Edison, New Jersey had a basement level. Menlo Park was built fairly early and was a combination outdoor/indoor mall for a while. It's been almost totally rebuilt now and moved quite upscale. I also believe that the one in downtown Pert...

Wegmans closed its Chase-Pitkin Home Improvement Center chain down in 2005, citing competition from national chains. I don't think that they were wrong; I remember just about everything costing more at Chase-Pitkin than at those other two big boxes. They had purchased Bilt-Rite Chase Pitkin in 1974 ...

I remeber going to one ohrbach's store in woodbridge nj at the woodbridge center i think I went to one in new york also I just remeber the Oh! Oh!rbach's advertisment in 1987 the woodbridge stoe turned into steinbach's until their fate in 1995 and that store was demolished and rebuilt for lord and ...

Haven't checked this board lately so I'm chiming in a bit late. There was a W.T. Grant store in Carteret, New Jersey (what exit? #12 off the Turnpike, actually) where I lived for 20 years. It was the "anchor" store of the strip mall that was the Carteret Shopping Center for a number of yea...

Kind of a strange way to have a first post here... I'm new to this board but not to the site. I have had a link to Groceteria on my site (irwinsjournal.com) for years now and I visit at least every month or so to see what's new. Thanks so much for your efforts and keep up the good work. This stuff i...