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wow you mean right by the Chinese restaurant where people wait to catch the 370? I walk by there every day and that would have been awesome to see since now it is a vacant lot... was it a traditional art-deco designed white tower or just a standard building and when was it last operating? Now there...

Does anybody remember this old restaurant? They were a white castle ripoff that focused more on being a diner I know there is one here in Albany that is now a dance club. The one operating in Amsterdam NY was a victim of the urban renewal plan to build a mall which was a total fail. There are a lot...

Ampersand wrote:the Ihop in Johnstown NY is now Traver's Diner, and the Ihop in Schenectady closed a few months ago..

As did the East Greenbush location fairly recently. Wolf Road is still open, and I think Clifton Park was listed on their last ad as well.

As far as White-Modell, I thought I read somewhere that Modells tested waters outside sporting goods and bought/merged with Whites Department Stores in the early 1970's. Remember it was not a long lasting venture and the Modell family got the Modell name back to sporting goods. No affiliation with ...

Was the B-Kwik connected to Tops? Seems to show quite a few Tops branded items. Perhaps that was an early part of their "convenience stores" chain that they had until not too long ago when they sold to 7/11)? A&P and Acme are probably the only two other chains still in existence (not i...

A local 'farmer's market' store recent re-opened near me with a much better selection of food. But that's not the interesting part. The store carries Alta Dena brand butter. Most supermarkets only carry the quartered pound (four half sticks) in the newest retail packaging. This store also sells the...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYxXuY6_Png - This is the same video referenced in the 1st post but titled Kmart 1978 commercial, and this version is advertising a particular store (Solon, OH) grand opening. The storefront in the video looks much the same as our local store that closed in June, which...

With the way the side of the building facing the (small) parking area looks, it almost looks like it could have been some kind of garage at one point (the rear sets of windows and entry ways replaced by garage doors would make it similar to a Goodyear or such type location, and those often have litt...

Yes, although I guess you could expect to find it in a forum like this (after all, it IS a grocery related forum and where else would you get spam besides a grocery store :).

Hi , I checked their web site and they are still around in upstate NY and in Pennsylvania. In small towns. They seem to have at least two former Great American locations. Their Ad seems to be very competitive. I do not know who supplies them. I wouldn't be surprised if at least one or two are forme...

http://blog.timesunion.com/colonie/star-supermarkets-a-tribute/801/#print This started out to be about Star Markets in the Albany (NY) area, but there are several posts about the Rochester stores as well as mention of the ones still existing in the Boston MA area. Kind of an interesting situation, w...

First - note that I only went to one of their stores one time, so it's certainly possible that other locations were different or that they changed over time (as seems to be referred to in the article). However, from what I remember it was similar to any of the other discount stores of the time, whic...

Jeez... Sucks to be old! I recall not only returning glass bottles of Coke, but HUGE empty glass bottles of Coke! Were they 1-liters? IIRC they were in 4-packs. When full, what a load! The first larger sized bottles (in the 1950's) known as King Size, were 26 oz. They may have increased over the ye...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/garyed40/king_cole2_zps1042b6f6.jpg Gary Interesting design with the aisles appearing to run sideways, rather than front to back as most stores do. We had at least one store here that was set up that way for a while, but has changed to the "normal" s...

Question: Were these "Price Rite" stores somehow linked to the ones currently owned by Wakefern Food Corp. (aka. Shop Rite) on the East Coast? Doesn't look like it, but ... The Wakefern folks did have a couple Price Rite locations in the west (a franchise agreement with K.V.Mart co, appar...