Posted on 02/12/2014 6:07:35 AM PST by US Navy Vet
Sobering but neat vintage photos.
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Long as they're salted, we're good...
my brother owns a supermarket in San Jose, and it has top-notch produce, a wonderful meat department with knowledgeable employees who know their meat... a nice bakery with beautiful and tasty pastries, cakes, cookies... and no self-check out... it is smaller than the chain stores, but he does well...
I think it’s done with chalk.
The one good thing about Obama is that a vast library of good soviet jokes can now be re-employed.
BUMP for later.
Well you can move to NJ, they still mandate gas pumpers I believe.
The anti-fat, pro-carb craze in the 80s helped to accelerate our weight gain. It’s almost impossible to find anything similar to how it was prior to then. Everything is “low-fat” or “gluten-free” or otherwise heavily marketed.
The healthiest stuff in the store is usually the most expensive anymore. Sad.
I believe they used either chalk on blackboard wired to the grill guard storefront, then later it was white shoe polish on the glass windows at the time.
I saw that pic and immediately my stomach started growling. NOMS!
Thanks but no thanks......I’m not a big fan of waiting hours to get over a bridge!!
Before the chains like A&P, Grand Union, First National arrived, groceries were bought in true, neighborhood mom & pop grocery store....where *pop* was the butcher...often a first gen immigrant. If mom sent you to the store for something during the week, deviating from her once-a-week shop [usually on Friday when dad got paid] ...the *mom* of the store would write what your parents owed for that loaf of bread, in a well-worn ledger. I recall a dime bought a loaf of Wonder Bread. :)
Oregon is your other option if you’re out west.
I don’t necessarily disagree, but it’s not a lost cause. We CAN get back to our roots, but we need government to get the Hell out of the way of everything and let the market dictate the terms.
I’m pretty well not going to any of the liberal bastions.....I’d rather pump gas!!!
One thing that’s notable is that these old grocery store photos do NOT show any “ready to eat” meanls made at the store that the families just need to heat up. The photos do show a lot of raw ingredients that you have to make into something. We’ve become a nation of people who don’t want to put effort into much of anything, including making dinner.
Your chicken, ducks, geese were sold in a poultry shop, with cases/ crates of live animals..including rabbits. You picked out the one you wanted and went back a couple of hours later and it was killed, dressed and ready for the oven...my brother use to work at the poultry store down at the corner of our street...you knew what you were eating. gas was 19 cents a gallon. (back in the 40’s) and no such thing as a super market. just small stores. This was in Detroit..milkman delivered milk, ice man delivered ice and green grocer in the summer drove a truck down the street with farm fresh veggies and fruits..
Ohh Yeh -- and they were popular -- and you could get a lot of good stuff with them.
Bear in mind that more cashiers were needed back then. Scanners and electronic scales mean a cashier today can do the work of at least ten cashiers from 1970. I remember when stores had more cashiers but I’d spend a lot more time waiting in line.
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