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by webcookie
19 May 2010 23:04
Forum: History: USA Northeast
Topic: Middletown NY Stores
Replies: 16
Views: 17161

Re: Middletown NY Stores

Hi,I remember the Acme,of course Lyods( The Prime Rib Dinner was hard to beat ) the A&P on route 211, andTheShop Well as wel las a down town location forA@P. My Dad Was the assistant manager in the Finast for a short time in the 60!s.Didn!t the Redners recently close? anddidn!t some one open a ...
by webcookie
17 May 2010 20:28
Forum: History: USA Northeast
Topic: Middletown NY Stores
Replies: 16
Views: 17161

Re: Middletown NY Stores

The Shoprite on Dolson Avenue is undergoing a major expansion. The former Rite-Aid location next to it in the plaza has been torn down and Shoprite will be expanding into that area. I know that a sushi bar is part of the planned expansion, along with a redesigned parking lot (which is so desperately...
by webcookie
17 May 2010 20:10
Forum: History: USA Northeast
Topic: Acme in New York
Replies: 32
Views: 34303

Re: Acme in New York

There was an Acme in Middletown, NY on East Main Street. I don't know when it closed. The building is currently occupied by a Family Dollar and Advance Auto Parts.

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by webcookie
28 Aug 2009 23:42
Forum: History: USA Northeast
Topic: Redner's Warehouse Market in Middletown, NY is Closing
Replies: 9
Views: 6515

Re: Redner's Warehouse Market in Middletown, NY is Closing

According to "The Weis Project", the Weis Supermarket at the Newburgh Mall is now Bed, Bath, & Beyond. http://www.weisproject.com/past_detail.php?num=7 Weis was located just to the left of the main entrance to the mall and was a stand alone store. Also, Weis was one of the original te...
by webcookie
28 Aug 2009 23:06
Forum: History: USA Northeast
Topic: Redner's Warehouse Market in Middletown, NY is Closing
Replies: 9
Views: 6515

Re: Redner's Warehouse Market in Middletown, NY is Closing

Hi, Weis had a store in Newburgh of of route 84 near the Mall for a lot of years. It was a low volume store and I can!t imagine that they would come back into this market. Redners opened the Middletown store because on of the brothers that manage the company had a summer home near by. Sadly he pass...
by webcookie
03 May 2009 18:32
Forum: History: USA Northeast
Topic: Redner's Warehouse Market in Middletown, NY is Closing
Replies: 9
Views: 6515

Redner's Warehouse Market in Middletown, NY is Closing

Redner's Warehouse Market on Dolson Avenue, formerly occupied by Waldbaum's, is closing. My mom was in there a couple of days ago and all of the freezers are shut off, many of the overhead lights are shut off, and many areas of the store are blocked off. It seems like it was a pretty quick decision ...
by webcookie
01 Aug 2008 11:38
Forum: History: USA Northeast
Topic: Safeway Stores in NY and PA
Replies: 50
Views: 35021

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The former Shop Rite locations on Route 211 in Middletown and in Florida, NY All gone. Florida's Shoprite has been completely torn down and replaced by a QuickChek convenience store and gas station. The Big-V headquarters building is still there and is for sale. I'm out there several times a week n...
by webcookie
01 Aug 2008 11:24
Forum: History: USA Northeast
Topic: Grand Union - Matamoras, PA
Replies: 2
Views: 3675

Re: Grand Union - Matamoras, PA

I just saw that a couple of weeks ago. How terrible. I'm so glad that I went and took pictures when I did.
by webcookie
10 Jan 2008 21:32
Forum: History: USA Northeast
Topic: Grand Union - Matamoras, PA
Replies: 2
Views: 3675

Grand Union - Matamoras, PA

I took a little trip today to the old/abandoned Grand Union in Matamoras, PA. I don't know when exactly it closed, but it's been a few years. The sign is still on the building and on the plaza's entrance/road sign. Lucky for me, they keep the tarps off one set of windows and keep a set of lights on,...
by webcookie
08 Jan 2008 22:11
Forum: History: USA Northeast
Topic: Grand Union Plaza - Goshen, NY
Replies: 2
Views: 3725

Re: Grand Union Plaza - Goshen, NY

I'll be going to take pictures of the Grand Union in Matamoras, PA soon, hopefully. The letters are still up on the building and the interior wall decor is still up. The windows are covered over with black tarps, but sometimes they fall down and you can see inside. I remember going to the Grand Unio...
by webcookie
08 Jan 2008 01:07
Forum: History: USA Northeast
Topic: Grand Union Plaza - Goshen, NY
Replies: 2
Views: 3725

Grand Union Plaza - Goshen, NY

The Times Herald Record ran an article today about the status of the Grand Union plaza in Goshen. It isn't doing too well, which I already knew. Here's a scan of the article along with a picture that I took of the Grand Union building about a year ago (it's a CVS now; Grand Union closed in 2001 acco...
by webcookie
07 Jul 2007 15:54
Forum: History: USA Northeast
Topic: Grand Union
Replies: 76
Views: 79001

I live in Middletown, NY and while we didn't have a Grand Union in town, there was one in Goshen, and one in Matamoras, PA. The one in Goshen is now a CVS, and the one in Matamoras is still intact, interior decorating (wall labels, etc) and all. I've been meaning to go take pictures through the wind...
by webcookie
26 Jan 2007 21:16
Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
Topic: Colonel Sanders other chicken restaurant chain????
Replies: 8
Views: 7331

Yes, it probably is the same restaurant. Lee's Famous Recipe Fried Chicken had locations in Monroe, Chester, and Middletown, NY back in the early 1980's. The location in Monroe was in the Shop Rite Plaza on NY 17M (not a freestanding location, but situated within a strip of stores across from Shop ...
by webcookie
26 Jan 2007 20:04
Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
Topic: Colonel Sanders other chicken restaurant chain????
Replies: 8
Views: 7331

When the Colonel sold out in the 1960's, he started "Lee's Famous Recipe Fried Chicken", which was larer acquired by Shoney's and then another group. This may be what you're thinking about. Here in Middletown, NY we had a place called Famous Recipe and it was, if I recall correctly, a chi...
by webcookie
26 Jan 2007 20:00
Forum: History: Department Store Chains
Topic: Bradlee's/Caldor
Replies: 16
Views: 22656

We had both a Caldor and a Bradlees here in Middletown, NY. Caldor is still sitting there vacant with nothing but Colandrea Pizza in the far end of the plaza and a dentist in the inside foyer (so you can actually go right up to where the store was). Bradlees was divided up into an Ashley Furniture a...