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I need to hit up Dairy Queen again some time ago just about all of them closed, now one just opened up in Colonie.. I went there once. About the only one around (aside from the small spot that was in Crossgates for a time - not sure if that is still there at all, or just Orange Julius) for many yea...

It's also interesting that they tested their Pay'n Takit format in Vancouver as well. I've never completely understood how that format differed from the main Safeway brand, though I know they acquired the name from a chain they bought out, maybe in Arizona. The brand then popped up in random places...

Another one of Beckley's thoroughfares is named Eisenhower Drive. When I lived in the area, I assumed that it had been renamed in commemoration of Ike after 1969...but it turns out that the street had been named by 1948! And it was a newly-constructed bypass, so it never was called anything else. I...

Non-grocery: But the K-Mart in Hamilton (still open) also has old looking signage on it, nothing I've ever seen on the East Coast. https://goo.gl/maps/eqZi2b7kaom Looks like their (I'd say) 70's style (with the large red K and smaller blue-green mart). Many stores had a similar setup on their roads...

Perhaps (looking at the info you have posted) the reason for the IGA and Piggly Wiggly both being in the ad is that this new group (Milgram), since they were taking over 6 different stores, some of the stores were running under one name and the rest under the other? It would sound logical with the t...

* A&P consolidated 5 stores into 1 between 1935 and 1941! Probably quite similar in many locations - as they were converting the small stores into early supermarkets they went from somewhere around 15,000 stores (nationwide) to around 3,500. Most likely the only reason it's not more exact (5 in...

the old W.T. Grant that later became a KMart in Rotterdam NY Curry Road Plaza finally got demolished in favor of a nice apartment complex cool to know that Schenectady housed so many Department stores in its day.. I keep on hearing about Two Guys, Kresge's, Sears, Carl Company, Woolworth, Barney's ...

Let me give you some New Orleans terms: Zatarain's - spices, dinners and the like Hubig's - Pies Zapp's - potato chips Blue Plate - Mayonaise Zatarain's may have started as local to that area, but I've seen those in stores here in NY State so they have apparently spread out quite a bit. Actually th...

Before there were UPC codes and scanners there was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJCj87WxIec Hard to believe now on so many different levels. One thing they need to bring back is that lesson about packing the items - so much of the issue with plastic bags is that you wind up with far more o...

Can't say I ever saw one that turned like that, but one would suspect it wouldn't take too much to fix it so it couldn't do that (say if the rules in a given area changed and no longer allowed it). So it's very possible that many of that style did at one point move and then were converted/fixed (or ...

If memory serves, that Saratoga location was actually a replacement store for one located in a shopping plaza on the other end of the city. I believe the original site was the plaza on Route 50 (after it splits from Route 9 heading south and is called Ballston Avenue) that now houses a Price Choppe...

this is around the time that the store in Glenville NY closed which ironically became a Target just like the Amsterdam Location then there is also the Latham store which still stands to this day Although Latham was much more recent (and at the same time as East Greenbush and Clifton Park - all of w...

Any hint as to what they sell (in terms of a "store brand"), if any? If they are supplied by one of the larger groups (like IGA, SuperValu or similar) perhaps it's a décor they had available for stores that dealt with them to get for the store, either at the time it opened or became this s...

One odd exception to the Albertsons "resets" would be the former A&P in Boonton, NJ that is now an Acme. Unlike the rest of the A&P brands/Acme stores, this store was originally going to close, and was just a day or two from finishing it's going out of business sales when Acme deci...

Just because I love being right... I just happened to see what I realized was the SAME A&P on an episode of "Naked City" from 1960. I identified it by the women's clothing store a couple of doors down. This time I saw enough of the sign that I could look that clothing store up in an o...