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I'm going to try to find a copy of the April, 1957 issue of Arizona Highways . I'm curious to know in what context they were printed. Maybe they did other articles showing this kind of stuff as well. Arizona Highways is one of those magazines like National Geographic . There are a ton of 'em around,...

...An early super was the "Big Bear" in New Jersey... The little Avatar thingy next to my name is from a matchbook cover for "Big Bear, America's Greatest Thrift Centers, Where Millions Shop and Save - Stores In Principal Cities". They defined "Principal Cities" as Dar...

In 1924, there was a Jonathan Albers in Richmond who was a supervisor for Plant-Lipford Co., the operator of the local Piggly-Wiggly stores. By 1926, Albers was operating 20 locations on his own under the name of Blue Ribbon Grocery. By 1931 the Blue Ribbon locations were gone, with six of the locat...

jamcool wrote:Now we know why A & P had so many financial problems...

The financial problems really didn't begin until they ran out of power tools to hock! :)

I took this Kodachrome in 1972. It answers the question, "Where DOES Economy Originate?"

The answer: between two pawnshops!

Interesting article in today's Style Weekly newspaper of Richmond. This particular store was an A&P from around 1951 to around 1970. Here is a link to the article http://www.styleweekly.com/article.asp?idarticle=12167.

Man, I was hoping someone had a 1906 list of Grand Union locations in their hip pocket! Let me put it another way - does anyone know if Grand Union began "in the late 1800's" (per thier website) as a tea company like A&P, or what? There was a Grand Union Tea Co. store in Richmond, VA f...

r wrote:Or it had a coal furnace, maybe? They were pretty common up thru the late 40's.

Probably not, since it was built in the early 1970's.

In 1926, there were 22 Yellow Front grocery stores in Richmond. They were gone by 1931, with 10 of the locations shown as Sanitary Stores in 1931.

Anyone hear of them? A lot of locations for a local at the time, and I don't know if they were a Sanitary predecessor or not.

I added a new page of old Pender's/Colonial/Big Star locations to my website today, and will be adding some others very soon.

http://mysite.verizon.net/d.mcgrann/

O.K. - here's a scan of the cover of a 1974 Best Warehouse Clearance flyer. Does anyone recognize the store on the flyer as having any particular prototype? The original Best store in Richmond was a plain brick box without any scalloped awnings like the one on the catalog - and the other Best stores...

Funny that this thread was brought back up top today. I just obtained a 1975 Best Products catalog ("Buyer's Book") complete with 1974-vintage warehouse clearance brochure today.. I already had a 1964 catalog and copies of the last couple of years of catalogs they ever produced. They're fu...

The former Alfie's Fish and Chips location looked almost exactly like the photo Dave posted, BTW... One odd thing I noticed yesterday driving by the building - if you look to the left, there's a brick chimney. That's not too unusual for small commercial buildings from this era on this strip of road...

tesg wrote:...The official Skipper's site is at http://www.skippers.net

For some folks around these parts, "skippers" is a slang term for maggots.

Here's the Arthur Treacher I referred to above. Built around 1972 or so. It made for a pretty unusual Arby's after it was Arthur Treacher's!