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Ahhhh...Gioia pasta. The Gioia Pasta Co. (also known as Gioia Macaroni), based in Buffalo, NY, was sold to Borden, Inc. in 1986. Borden kept the brand alive in it's primary market area - Western New York state (including Buffalo and Rochester) for many years after the sale. Here is a link to the sal...

As to the Grand Union in High Land Mills that store was located on Route Seventeen M and was south of Middletown about thirty miles west of Highland Falls. Monroe is South of Highland Mills and Cornwall Ny is about 40 miles North Of West Point. No, the Highland Mills Grand Union was on NY 32 in Hig...

North of Stoney Point not another store existed until you were above the Bear Mountain Bridge in West Point About ten Miles away, also a small Grand Union. Most of the area around the US Military at West Point is within the boundaries of New York State's Bear Mountain State Park and Harriman State ...

Where was the last Acme in Baltimore?

Yes, I remember Zip'z - there was a location on NY Route 59 in Nanuet, (Rockland County) NY somewhere between 1978 and 1980. It was not a stand alone location, though. The store was located in a small strip mall just south of the White Castle restaurant on the Northbound side of Route 59. For the ti...

This site was a Grand Way location in the late 1970's - early 1980's. The current Stop & Shop supermarket in the same plaza was a Grand Union supermarket. The front of the store - now encased in stucco - was all glass. The store is much larger than a typical Penn Fruit or Shop Rite location of t...

<old man voice> Yep, I remember way back in the day when the plaza was just a vacant lot near Route 17 and the Grand Union was still open in "downtown" Goshen right near the old R.I. Suresky Dodge-Chrysler-Plymouth dealership And speaking of Grand Union, I remember the old Grand Unions in ...

Also, possible Memco locations are Route 175 & Dobbin Road in Columbia, MD (I pretty sure this was confirmed - it also was a former Bradlees, a former K-Mart, but is now Wal-Mart). Also, possibly Liberty Road and Brenbrook in Randallstown, MD - this was a former Bradlees also. It later became be...

I'm guessing that the Memco stores in Baltimore were om Merritt Boulevard in Dundalk where the current Giant Food-MD is located and on Route 40 in Catonsville where the Babies R US/Baby Superstore is located. Both are former Bradlees locations.

Grand Way also had a store in Plattsburgh, NY.(Plattsburgh is 20 miles south of the US/New York State line & Canada/Quebec provincial line - Montreal is also 60 miles north of Plattsburgh, NY. Albany, NY is about 150 miles south of Plattsburgh. The Grand Way location was in the 300 block of Corn...

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 R...

I am amazed at the amount of former Food Fair/Pantry Pride stores still standing in the Baltimore/Washington area. When I had first moved to the area many years ago, I would see many smaller, supermarket sized buildings with the tall pylon attached to the building and the top of the pylon denuded of...

Barker's was similar to K-Mart, Ames, ShopKo, Caldor, and other discouint department stores, but seemed to be focused on the NYC Metro area.

Does anyone recall this store?

Yes, I remember Lloyd's, in Middletown and Newburgh, NY. Ed Lloyd tried to be everything to everyone, but other larger chains had better resources and could pull it off better. Probably the reason that you received a cookie each time is because most grocery stores in the 1960's and 1970's would give...

I'm thinking that the Safeway at 1525 Wilson Boulevard in (Rosslyn) Arlington, VA was at one time a Safeway International location.

I remember that the prices were extremely high and that the store carried bear meat during the time that I lived in the area during 1988-1989.