These Historical Photographs Of Grocery Stores Offer A Fascinating Look Back Through Time
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Nowadays, the likes of Walmart and Target reign supreme when it comes to grocery shopping. But for much of the 20th century, things were totally different. Independent stores and specialist sellers were the order of the day for decades, in fact, until the gradual takeover of supermarkets and big-box stores. And thanks to these fascinating historical photographs, we can see that change happen through snapshots taken over the years - one of them being the beguiling picture above, which was shot in the 1960s.
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I remember when paper bags were the only option and they would rip and tear so easily. My job was to fold them up when we got home. We would make book covers out of them.
We did that when I was a kid in the eighties, lol
We used them for trash can liners, with a folder newspaper in the bottom.
I remember grocery stores in the sixties, when you could have them bag your groceries, or bag them yourself. I too, would use the paper bags as book covers for my books, like math books.
@@DavidBrowningBYD My mom always did that. I recall her saying a number of times, "Time to go to the grocery store again, I'm almost out of trash bags." 😄
I grew up in 70s and never had a store bought book cover.
What about stamps?? Do u remember getting a certain amount of stamps for spending $5 or $10 and when u filled up ur booklet u got a set of dishes, collection of cups, etc? I can still picture the brown speckled plates that were durable and could be found in everyone’s house!
S & H. Food Stamps
Was s green booklet.
Green Stamps. In Salem Oregon they had a store that only took green stamps as payment. I remember going with my grandma. I loved looking at the little catalog type book for what you could buy with them.
Blue Chip stamps too.
Blue chip stamps where I lived and still remember the books all over the kitchen table as my mom filled each one up. Sometimes I would help her put stamps in the book. Fun to see what items you could get.
I think they were called s&h green stamps my mom collected them and when she took me to the grocery store she'd buy a little box of barnums animal crackers to keep me quiet.
What I remember from the 50's going into a store called the Massachusetts Market in San Diego was that you could smell the produce walking through the door. The smell of celery, apples, lettuce, etc. was thick in the air. If my mother went shopping and was unloading a bag of groceries in the kitchen you could smell celery all through the house. It tells me that the nutritional value of food is just not there any more. We have stripped our farm lands of their minerals by over-farming and dumping chemicals on the soil to increase size, kill bugs, kill fungus, kill weeds, increase yield and speed up harvest time. The process has left us with food that is not quality. But those who were not alive back in the 60's and 70's probably don't remember that food actually tasted amazing without dumping loads of salt, sugar, artificial flavoring and spices on it to make it taste like something.
I totally agree Lynn. My sweet auntie and uncle are still alive at 92 and 95 respectively as they always had their own little garden. No pesticides or chemicals on their food for 70 years. They swear that is the secret to a long life.
Not to mention that a lot of varieties have been bred to withstand shipment, and in the process a lot of nutrition and flavor has been bred out of them. Apples is one big thing that comes to mind. They've bred them to withstand rough handling and long shipping times, but they have no flavor.
@@edennis3202 Yes when we were young in the 60s we just picked apples from my grandparents tree. Hardly anyone I know has fruit trees growing in the yard now. Such a shame.
@@gypsymom0819 My maternal grandmother and her husband lived out in the country in a house that's been there since the Civil War (it will go into ruins because my mom's sister (who has disowned her over jealousy and who knows what) has the estate and wants to let it rot into the ground with everything still inside; which I find just infuriating). Anyway, they always had lots of fruit trees and potato gardens, strawberries, corn everything it was awesome. I'm getting some fruit trees for my backyard that has a sizable forest behind it so hopefully they grow well and stay alive; tried a blueberry bush but it didn't survive for some reason. We'll also have a large container garden with tomatoes, peppers, onions etc. I hope it works out.
@@lynseychinnery5707 That is such a shame about the house. They don't make them like they used to. I also have container gardens for our herbs but not vegetables. I may try that this year. I love peppers and onions. Might try planting a fruit tree and see if I can keep it alive. Good luck on your planting. I hope an abundance this year.
You guys im 28, all the comments referencing the 50s and 60s are literally making my day. Its like taking a time machine back into you guys memories and pulling out remarkable Information that I am very much jealous of! Be proud you lived in this time of class and dignity, how amazing 👏❤
Rachel, we had to wear dresses to school and guys wore slacks and collared shirts. Times were simple, but so much fun.
It was a pretty great time to be a kid. I’m grateful that was “my” time period.
IT IS! I love it!
The prices are quite a trip, plus how many brands people can recognize.
@@annsowers4591 I’m 26 and let me just say, I wish it was still simple like that but today’s kids would absolutely complain about that dress code. The girls already complain about not being able to wear a tank top but in reality it’s setting up those kids to learn dress code for their future job, but kids do not have the same maturity level they did back then. If those same rules applied today about girls having to wear dresses, they would “cancel” that so fast because some “girls” don’t define as a girl and vice versa. Some people define as non-binary even. With that said, ….I wish I had a life before this new era. I was born in 95.
What I remember most is the mothers would park their baby carriages with the babies in the front of the store while they shopped. In the early 60s my favorite thing was to visit all the babies while my mother shopped. Can you imagine doing that today?
Wow !!! I can't even imagine
You'd be charged with child endangerment or child neglect !
Life was good back then !
this is still common in scandinavian countries!
I don't remember ever seeing that in the past and I'm from the 50s.
@@sandyfreyman3501 I'm 68 and I remember it well but I was from the south. I grew up in an old country grocery store and the memories of how it was then is really unbelievable!
As a child I remember it was very common to see ladies in their curlers and scarfs... I also Remember it was uncommon to see men grocery shopping.... the only men in the stores were the managers ,stockers and bag boys.
Not true. I remember seeing a lot of men in stores. Single men, few women drove so husbands accompanied them and men who's wives has passed.
☺ thats how it was where i lived, the men folk waited outside, or at home. The grocery store ALWAYS had bag boys to help you to the car. "Other" men would rib them, if seen in a grocery store, which was pretty much a woman's domain, like a beauty parlour. 🌞
Wearing curlers in public was common in the U.S., but shocking to those of us who were newly arrived from Europe. No woman where we came from would be so scandalously unkempt in public, certainly not back then, and rarely even now. My mother viewed it as a lack of self-respect.
It seemed like wearing cutlers were a fashion statement back it the 60's. I never really gave it much thought as a child back then but it seemed like they were trying to one up each other with who's curlers were bigger.
@@never2late454 ☺❤ i loved those huge curlers! They really helped smoothed the hair. Sometimes we'd use empty soup cans! They made our hair hang straight, which was "Groovy" ✌.
I'm 60 years old. I'm old enough to witness grocery stores and retail in general change through the years. The one store you showed with the wooden floors takes me back to the ol' Five and Dime. I have very fond memories of those types of stores. I've worked retail for years and remember the pricing guns. No scanners on those registers. Even though I love the big box stores, I still have a soft spot for years gone by.
Like McCrory's, Kennington's, Emporiumn, Black & White,, Krystal, and some of the fabric cloth stores, five and dime stores and early Woolworths and each store had its own personal smells and all weren't air conditioned. It was a treat to get to go downtown and shop with your mother. Oh, and the full soda fountain with the best hamburgers, chili, soup, sandwiches, fries, etc and fountain drinks and milk shakes! Yum! Those were the days!
Feed stores. 🤤. My brain just mushed. Remember the sound of walking on the old wood floors?
I remember the 5 and dime stores that had open candy bins where kids could walk or bike to the store and pick out different pieces of candy if they had some money and place their candy pieces in a bag. The lady at the register would count each piece and ring up a total. Kids either found money on the ground, worked for the money, or got a weekly allowance from your parents.
@@JNMKlover Yes I do remember that sound as a child in the old downtown McCrory store, with the wooden bins! What a great memory!
The five and dime! My ma is 94 yrs old and she still occasionally speaks of Woolworth’s and the 5 & 10. ✌️🇺🇸
The cheque writing was actually the least time consuming part of the checkout process. Remember, there were no barcode scanners back then, so the price of each item had to be manually entered by the clerk. Those ladies were lightening fast but we still had plenty of time to fill out most of our cheques before she finished. Then we just had to quickly write in the total.
The lines, as far as I recall, were actually a bit shorter than now. They may have moved a bit slower, but there were more of them so it worked pretty well.
An interesting side note; if you forgot your cheque book, most small-town stores kept generic copies of cheques from local banks so you could just fill in your own information. The last time I used that service was the early eighties.
I was ALWAYS annnoyed by check writers. Back in the day we either paid cash or by check. Damn check writers waited until the total was given. Me...I had already filled out and signed my check, and then I filled out the total when it was given. Saved MUCH time
Easy enough to pre-fill the chegue with all the info except the amount to be paid.
Now it’s just sign your name because the machine handles it and you get your check back unless there’s a problem with the process. Customers Still wait until the total is given & I even bagged & put their groceries in their cart for them bc they stand there & watch them pile up and I have no room left. 😤 I hope I never have to be a cashier again. Did it for a few years & it was awful.
That's right. I worked at a small town store in the early 80s and we had blank checks handy for folks who forgot their check book.
I was a 90's kid and my mom always paid by check, even when I moved out at 18. She was pretty mad when prepaid only gas became a thing, because she would have to guess how much gas she needed. Pretty sure she stills pay by check anywhere they allow her to.
Remember my father's friend and family went to America..He wrote back on how you could buy frozen meat and frozen peas in a supermarket..My father said..it will never take off..I laugh every time I buy a pack of frozen peas and vegetables..
That was in the 1950's
We moved to the US in the 80’s and discovered foods they have here that we didn’t have access to over in Germany. When my mother bought margarine spread the first time, it didn’t go over very well. We had never used it before as butter was cheaper and more accessible there. Being able to go to the store and buy however many of one certain item you wanted (if stock allowed) was a new concept for us as well. Gone were the days of ration cards!
I felt that way when I was getting a drink from the local water fountain at the park and people were talking about how they saw bottled water in the store. I thought, “why would you buy bottled water when you have a sink or water fountain nearby?”…. Then they took out water fountains everywhere and it was the only option if you were out.
People always dressed nice in the time I grew up in the 1970s my grandma wore a dress and Grandpa wore a suit and Fedora hat whenever they went downtown to shop at Eatons .Miss those days
"People always dressed nice..."
Guess you didn't see the first picture with the women in curlers out in public, shopping.
@@mariabarker2036 That picture doesn't depict everyone, everywhere, nor does it depict the majority.
I miss Eaton’s😢
This is sooo NOSTALGIC!!! I remember when you could get a POUND of hard candy for a quarter. I also remember ASH TRAYS at the ends of the aisles. Ain't it funny how time slips away...
Ash trays in the theatres too!
I remember buying a whole loaf of bread for a quarter
Vincent Sablan:
I was telling my friend about the ashtrays at the end of the grocery store aisle. It was a A&P
I miss the old day's 😪 😢 😔
@@jayne59brohammer I think it's to strange, but I can visualize them, still. Remember when you could smoke in hospitals? It just makes me feel OLD!! I'm only 57, but that feels like a lifetime ago...
@@jayne59brohammer I really miss a Good Old Fashion Drive inn... Pj's and blankets and munchies. So much fun!!! 😂😂😂
What I remember is my mom wore curlers in her hair (covered by a scarf) when she grocery shopped on Saturdays so her hair would be styled for Sunday church.
Same with my grandma!
Mine too!!
Maybe my mom called yours before going out? "I'm in curlers..... you too?"
Mine too with a scarf
@Annette Newman I was surprised that the photo showed 3 women in the same vicinity with curlers. I'm 66 and yes everyone wore curlers but as you said they wore a scarf to cover them up.
My great-grand parents started a grocery in the early 1900s that then was turned into a self-service by my grandparents and it was operational with my grandmother helping to run cashier when my father was born in 1941. By the 1950s Beeners in tiny Covington, Ohio was a full service grocery with meat and produce. My father was put to work counting potatoes as soon as he could could to 100 - he was about 6. He worked his entire childhood in that store, even doing his homework in between being a bag boy. They sold it completely in the late 70s as a buy out but my father continued on in the grocery business retiring in 2006. I still have the original desk where my great-grandfather, grandfather, and then father did all of their store bookkeeping.
incredible
I love that you still have that desk with it's known history. Those are special things. Cheers!
Wow, that's so neat!
Beeners huh 😂
@@camibabyy Yes, Bee....not the derogatory racist name for farmers.
The first picture with the ladies in hair curlers made me laugh. I'm from a town in Germany, that had Americans stationed there with their families. If you saw a lady with curlers in their hair, it was a dead give-away that they were American. No German lady would ever want to be caught in public with curlers in their hair. :)
Yes I noticed those curlers growing up also! Every morning you'd see the neighbours talking to each other wearing their bathrobes & curlers. 🤭💚
One of my aunt's embarrassed herself royally in the early 90's.... She forgot to take the curlers out of her hair before going to church! 😂😂
I couldn’t believe that they didn’t have a scarf on. My mother would have never gone outside like that!
So, apparently, it wasn't just Americans who wore curlers in public back then based on what @AustralianWoman said.
I noticed that she was wearing a dress to look nice, though. The curlers kind of defeat the purpose of looking nice. Ha ha
My most vivid memory of 60's grocery shopping with my mom was in San Diego 1962. The Cuban missle crisis was happening and the shelves were bare. Back then we had the civil defense organization of which my mom was the district coordinator. You were supposed to have a dedicated room or closet with at least three months of food and water. We did and it took up a lot of room. Our evacuation plan was to head for Lake Tahoe if things got sketchy and if we could leave early enough to have fuel along the way before it ran out. Strange times for sure.
Grocery stores actually had cashier's( NO self check out) and bag boys carried your groceries out and put them into your car. Stores valued your business and did everything to keep your business. Wonderful time!
Publix still does
I remember when they’d give you a number and you could drive up and a bag boy would be waiting to put all your purchases in your car.
I was one in early 90s as a teen I enjoyed the tips all the older ladies would give like homemade fudge during Christmas 🎄🎁🙏🏽 and the cashiers would say I was lucky because I was the only 1 who got it I shared it though
@@DavidBrowningBYD they do that at Walmart drive thru pickup
We have this at Heinens in Ohio :)
I can remember being a very little girl, when my mom would only go to our city’s farmers market to get produce and a separate butcher for meats. She also stopped at the small roadside fruit and vege stands too.
We live near the Oxnard Plain (west of Los Angeles), where a whole lot of America's produce comes from. There are farm stands all over the place here, with generally really fresh produce.
I miss the old days! lol! When I was a little kid, my sister and I couldn't cross one very busy street on our bikes. So when we wanted to buy some candy, we'd ride our bikes to a little pharmacy that we could ride to without crossing that street. The pharmacy had a whole wall of candy! We'd get together with our friends and we'd all pick out as much candy as the money in our pockets would allow! I wish I had a couple of videos of us picking out candy back then. I bet the pharmacist got a kick out of it. Now that pharmacy probably made more money from the candy sales than the prescription drugs. After we had made our purchases, we'd hop on our bikes (Stingrays, of course) and go to the school turf area and we'd all sit in a circle and have a candy party! It was so sweet and innocent.
I worked the soda fountain at our small drugstore. I can't begin to guess how many scoops of ice cream I dipped. I made 90 cents and hour. I bought school clothes for me and 3 of my siblings with my paycheck as well as helped buy groceries. I really miss those days.
Elizabeth Page:
We did the same thing the name of the pharmacy was Clar Mar pharmacy. After we got our candy & Archie comic books we would sit under the big shade tree in front of our house and have a great time during our summer break. Oh man do I miss those days. Does anyone have a time machine?
Oh almost forgot we also had the sting ray bikes...😆
Elizabeth, I grew up in a grocery store run my my mom ( my Dad died only two years after buying it) but the big seller was the candy and yes mom made more on candy sodas and snacks than anything else. 1957 two big sellers were sweets tarts and Now & Later. She sold some penny candy but mostly 5 cent candy.
I bet u have a candy jar to share with other's at home
thanks so much for sharing this
I remember about 1960 I went grocery shopping with my mom at the A&P. We FILLED two carts top and bottom. It was $30, yes thirty dollars! My mom was flabbergasted. She exclaimed that she had never spent so much on groceries in her life! It was the main shopping for a month for a family of six. Last week I carried my groceries in on one hand and it was about $125. Thank the Lord I had the $125!
No one better ever look at me dodgy again when I walk into the store with a full set of rollers in.
No one cares today. Ppl walk into stores with their bellies hanging out now. Ha!’
Be sure to be dressed nice like they were!
I get grief wearing a bonnet 😒
My mom anyways went out with her hair in curlers with a bandana wrapped around there. Almost v the most iconic look in remember her with
@@LGAussie Their butts, guts and everything else. Now you are surprised if they have on decent clothes.
Pre-scanners: I can remember being so impressed with the cashiers that had memorized most of the prices. They could ring you up so fast it was amazing.
I loved watching the cashiers pick up an item with one hand and key the price into the register with the other. My sister and I played grocery store with our parents typewriter pretending it was a register.
I remember the quarter horse ride outside and the water fountain inside.
Who had a quarter?
Ask Grandma!😉
Ne too
I remember the horse ride or some kind of toy car
For a quarter you could buy a gallon of gas, who today would put $2 or $3 for a 3 minute horse ride, but that's the price of gas these days.
Makes me think the guys with those vending machines sent their kids to Harvard.
So many memories flooding in of the 60s and 70s shopping with my mother. The women in curlers made me laugh. My mother would never have gone out that way. I didn't work in a grocery store but did work for Kresge's. The wooden floors, lunch counter, pay day - lining up at the pay wicket each Friday and handed the cash pay packet. Seems like another world not just an era.
What was so cool about the 1960s supermarkets were the cashiers. They could key so fast, and they recognized everything in your cart. They knew the difference between a sweet potato and squash. They were as fast then as the cashiers today, using scan technology.
I was a cashier as a high school student and we recognized things over a period of time too! 4011 is still for bananas, 3283 for honey crisp apples, etc.
All about memorizing the numbers and recognizing the differences in color and texture of the produce. :)
Now I'm afraid to go in stores and ask where something is because the kid at the counter just started and has no clue and manager hasn't been trained or has keys to anything.
And the bag boys that would carry groceries to your car.
@@ED80s : That's still around.
@@brodriguez11000 not in our supermarkets in Toronto Canada
Wow those pictures sure bring me back! When I was a kid my mom went to the beauty parlor every Thursday or Friday so she would look good for the weekend, in case we had company or went visiting... Except when the weather was bad in winter!
But every day before breakfast she would put those curlers in her hair!
However she never left the apartment without a scarf on her head, it was a taboo! She used to say if someone rang the doorbell, answer the door, I HAVE CURLERS IN MY HAIR... 😂 LOL
But she ran her errands with a scarf over the CURLERS!
But those curlers came out and her hair was set if she had to go to the bank or dentist for example or she wanted to go to a department store before dinner...she would pick me up from school early and off we went!
But even if she was home cleaning, cooking, ironing all day,...she had those curlers gone and hair styled before Dad came home from work! I was ALWAYS amazed how much my Mom did in a Day and still Looked good 😊
A little bit of an after thought,
I Do remember the Plaid Stamps!
Also S&H Green stamps from other stores, my parents saved those stamps, I can still see my mom stuffing them into her purse, heck my father used to stop and get gas only at stations that gave the stamps like Safe WAY & Hess! I remember we got radios, cigars, wooden salad bowl sets , steak knife sets , binoculars, fancy lighters,free car washes, free gallons of gas, even got presto appliances.
Yeah those stamps were a nice reward for patronizing these establishments! Late 1960- the '70's they were popular as heck....
Good Memories 😊
God I wish women today were like our mothers.
@@heavyhaul8621 In what way do you mean that ?
The honesty and dignity. The home feeling
@@heavyhaul8621 Yessir, I don't want to "trigger anyone" but it's also that it was a different time when the value of a woman wasn't decided on the income she could make , but on the value of being a good homemaker, housewife, and mother of children, wife for her husband, and many other attributes that today's society looks down on like they are some kind of insults. I'm not saying every family regardless of size was perfect in those days, especially when times were tough. But the Mother was the backbone of every family in my opinion.
And I sure miss those times
@@glenng7085 There were less distractions back then, no social media, no internet. TV, radio, newspapers that was all.
In the 1960's... My Grandma would give me & my brother a quarter to get penny candy. We got 25 candies in a bag. Sometimes we would go and get a popsicle. Sometimes when we went to McCrory's dime store Grandma would buy us a bag of cashew nuts.
Thank you for the lovely memory. I grew up in the 80’s and I remember going to the Kmart and my mom would buy me an Icee....
I remember the soda fountain area of McCrorys. Best hot, crispy fries ever served by an army of older ladies in hairnets giving free useful advice! It was like eating in grandma's kitchen. They'd always give a little extra something free like a slice of day old pie they couldn't sell or a cookie. And you got a great conversation with it. When they announced their last day of business, I went and had one last order of fries back in 1982. Then I wandered around the store looking at all the junk. The rest of the store stayed open a few years more but the soda fountain atmosphere was sadly gone. I also miss the blue light Kmart sales which we thought were SO exciting on Saturdays. They'd announce the department on the loudspeaker and we'd go running there to see the flashing blue light and hear the siren. Lol those were the days! We were easily amused by real conversation and running around the Kmart. 🤭
I'm a 90s child and in some gas stations the had penny candy. Now its 25c for one mini recess cup
Oh how I miss the nut counter! The smell of the roasted nuts! 🤤
I bought some cashews a few days ago, but they’re in a plastic bag. Not quite the same. I’d like to see things go back to going to the nut counter, and getting the amount of nuts you want in a paper bag! So much more eco friendly! There’s too much plastic in our environment!
The concept of the grocery store is great, but I hate that everything is covered in a plastic bag! We have to stop this madness!
Oh yes!! I remember so well. There were jars and jars of candy and lined up in the glass case with a Woodstock at the back of the Woodbine market.
What I remember most is getting trading stamps from the cashiers. It was so much fun to go to the trading stamp store to buy stuff with those stamps.
One of my favorite stories from my grandma is that when she was coming out of anesthesia in the hospital after giving birth to my mom in 1967, she turned to my grandpa and said “do they give green stamps here?”😂
@@markwhitney3746 That's a GOOD one!!!!
During the 60s. There was a commercial...”Curlers in your hair...Shame on you”....lol. Yet...curlers...spoolies...spit curls....it’s what we did. And...I use to wrap my hair in orange juice cans. They were the times.
OMG! DIPPIDY DOO! Moma put it on our hair then put it in rollers! 60's slash early 70's! Anyone?
My Grandma still sings the “curlers in you hair - shame on you” jingle! I always she did it to be funny (she did) but I never knew she grew up with that!
@@IDIDances
I remember that commercial 🤣
I would love to go back to the early 1960s.....Does anyone have a time machine?
@@bonkers5016 Oh yes!! My mom put it in my hair before rolling with those hard plastic curlers. I was actually looking for some dippity do so I could try rollers again except use the soft curlers. My mom finally started doing my hair with the soft ones...I got a lot more sleep after that. The good ole days. I miss it all.
Yes dippidy doo, I remember the smell
Those ladies in hair curlers. Remind me when I was a kid. My Mom and Dad went out every Saturday night. Mom would set her hair or go to the beauty parlor. Sunday was always our day.
exactly....get your hair done on saturday...for church on sunday. and maintain it until next saturday
I remember a flowing over basket of groceries with meats costing less than $50.00 ....That's what I miss, almost the most ....
In my neighborhood the kids did the shopping because the mothers were all working by the 70's and our weekly food bill was paid with a $20
Buckle up. the Biden socialist regime will triple food prices.
I remember in the 50s and early 60s, when my Saturday morning chores largely consisted of the week's marketing and with the ten dollar bill that mother gave me, I was able to shop at half a dozen stores, buy everything we needed and have change left to boot!
Yes, those were the days! My daughter shopped last week. 50.00 per each bag of groceries! 4 bags 200.00 and was not even a full cart.
@@vincentperratore4395: and listened to Doo-Wop music. Doing the stroll , the Walk, the Lindy with Poodle skirts and tight sweaters lol
I never shop at Walmart.
They destroy small businesses, treat
employees badly & are criminally RICH.
🇺🇸🇺🇸SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESSES🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Yes
No Walmart for me, either.
We’ve come full circle, but now we submit the list over the internet.
Not in small towns - I wish!
Modern day sears catalogue
No, "we" don't.
@@lynnhoffman247 Are you not able to get your own groceries?
@@Armistead_MacSkye Yes, I am. We have one grocery store. Just no deliveries from there or anywhere else (like Amazon, etc. Closest Walmart is 35 miles away 😂)
I prefer Mom and Pop shops. I get a headache in large stores...Its overwhelming
Looking all the millions of things in today's supermarket actually blurs my vision. I just have to get out of those really busy aisles asap. Also the laundry detergent aisle has so much perfume I nearly pass out. I instantly get a headaches. The stuff in those boxes is nearly as toxic as the pesticides in our food.
I remember 1980 when stores were in a recession and they cane with stores where they didn't have bags you used boxes . They didnt last long since they sold just can goods and cheap stuff .
My grandfather ran an old country store back in the 1950's...
Same. I happily trade choice/variety for a smaller more manageable shopping experience. We're lucky to still have a local butcher but our produce store closed years ago. I wish they'd come back.
Unfortunately not all mom & pop shops are great themselves anymore. No loyalty or respect for customers. We're the only game in town so we can treat customers anyway we want to.
I just love how we all used to wear a curlers to store and everywhere else you had to get a hair done on Saturday if you're going to make it to church on Sunday had to do it yourself so the curlers were necessary thing. Everybody had them so it didn't matter if you had them too
My mom nor the neighbor ladies where I grew up would have been caught dead wearing rollers in public! Ladies were dressed and looked nice whenever they left the house.
My Grandmother worked in a 1920s grocery store where everthing was behind the counter. She disliked the customers who held on to their shopping lists and would read off one item at a time. She then had to make many back-and-forth trips. In the 1950s, my neighborhood still had several small delicatessens.
Back in the 50's, I would go shopping with my Mother. I was barely tall enough to look over the meat counter and remember seeing a pound of bacon for 25 cents and asking her if that was high! 🤣 I loved everything about the 50's.
I remember seeing women in curlers but my Mom never went out like that! She was always dressed nice and had a little makeup on...not too much, she didn't need it.
She never went to bed in curlers or with cold cream on her face. My Dad always said she looked too young for him, and she was a few months older than him! She was a natural beauty even in her golden years. Boy I miss them both! 🥰😢💖
At that time, it would have been taboo to go out in public like that. I cannot even imagine where this picture is from, but I'm going to say, I'll bet it was actresses on a set.
This mid-60s man remembers the days when there were no scanners and being amazed at how fast the checkers were when ringing up the groceries.
And they were friendly too, not like today.
If you think about it, those cashiers were faster ringing you up than today's cashier are scanning your stuff. What amazed me most was that they could ring those items up, often without looking at the price (remember how they stamped the price right on the item?) and could bu!!$h!t at the same time....and not mis-ring a thing.
My great grandparents used to have an ice cream shop with their own name on the individual boxes (like the klondike bar). I don't know too much about it but you can still find Welte ice cream containers in antique shops around Michigan. I've even seen them on ebay being sold from different states.
This was a fascinating video. I love the old photographs!
I remember going to grocery store on Saturdays with hair in curlers. & as a child riding bike with basket to get stuff for mom & stopping at homes to see what they needed. You could make a NICKLE
I remember when the local farmer could sell his produce to the grocery store.
Piggly Wiggly used to buy from local farmers. The fresh food was wonderful.
In my home town there were plenty of stores, you name it! Big and small, supermarkets, greengrocers, who'd pack their goods into green bags, bakeries, etc., the list was endless!
I also remember back in the 60's when I was in my single-digits, going into our local supermarket not wearing a shirt or shoe's and enjoying the novelty of air-conditioning!
Grocery shopping in the 60’s was a very serious affair in my house. Children were frowned upon. My mother and my grandmother had a very serious day to budget and buy the family’s groceries. Not a penny was wasted. My grandmother used wax paper from Rice Krispies boxes,everything was recycled! She made us icecream bars occasionally in the summer from Rice Krispie bars with icecream in the middle wrapped in the paper. Bread bags used as baggies. Rarely pop,treats and chocolate or popsicles ever bought except at Christmas. I never missed out on anything. Nothing was ever wasted or thrown away.
I grew up in the 50’s & 60’s and loved it! We lived in the suburbs and could pretty much go anywhere, as long as we were back by dinner. One thing I really miss is the drive-in movies! My parents would make popcorn, and fix hotdogs to bring with us. No buying at the concession stand! And having a meal out was a rare treat. We hardly ever got fast food. I would always wish my dad would stop for hamburgers, but he never did. 😕 It was still the best times!
I remember our grocery store was Houska’s, a little local market.
Or, be back when the street lights came on.
Here in west Texas we still have drive in movies 🍿 with a little restaurant you can order pizza and burgers and chicken . I take my kids it is nice …
@ Janet Hays: yep the drive - in was what we’d call “boss”. We’d go to the concession for fries. But on special occasions.. we’d go to get White Castles.. not sure of the price.. maybe 10 cents each. I could do about 6 , easily .
Right! Stopping for hamburgers was a very rare treat!
When I was a kid in the 1960s, my mother would never wear curlers downtown
Oh, but mine did lol. She got mad because I (her little girl) had naturally curly hair
My Mom never wore curlers in late 50’s or 60’s (or ever) and always wore a dress.
I remember ladies with their hair in rollers How many of us now don’t even have much hair left
I used to go to the stores, with my hair in curlers, lol would I do that today, probably not, but, I could
To the grocery store 😂
Theresa ......you make me laugh so much! So true...these days....there's so little hair left for many of us ladies! lol 🤣😂🤣
And some were embarrassed to go out in public with curlers
Actually slept in them during high school. But Saturday was not only grocery shopping day but also hair washing day. To get everything done for the day, sometimes you did one while doing the other. Grocery stores came into being which ended neighborhood markets. Going grocery shopping was a big event.
We still have a small, privately owned grocery store in my area. Shoutout to Ted Clark’s Busy Market! And that “Busy” in the title is not a marketing gimmick! People are in and out of that place all day! But they are unique in that they carry a lot of specialties. They have a great deli that also sells store made salads, meats cold cuts and the best cottage cheese anywhere. They have a hot food counter where you can get a real meal for a decent price, or a sub sandwich. And bakery products from a local bakery. Plus a lot of locally made products. No wonder it’s so busy!
Where is it?? I want to go! 🤣
@@LGAussie
It’s in Waverly, New York.
@@lisaspikes4291
So, it’s way up there, like Rochester, right? Nice things still exist there. Ur lucky to have that grocer.
@@LGAussie
Closer to Ithaca NY.
My grandparents were independent grocery store owners until the mid 80’s in small town Texas
Which town? I’m from San Antonio.
@@sarahpursley719,Red Oak , 30 mins South of Dallas
@@jenniferaulds1608 my great grand parents lived in Devine, an hour south of S.A., when they were alive. There was a market called Brown’s, I used to love going there as a child in the 80’s and 90’s. Everyone knew everyone, it was fantastic.
@@sarahpursley719 , I miss family owned fm stores
@@jenniferaulds1608 so do I. Going to Walmart or HEB is such a dread, I just try to order everything curbside.
I remember Hughes market in Burbank,California had shopping carts that if you returned them to cart machine it would spit out a ticket which was worth money. My brother capitalized and helped people unload bags to car and collecting carts for tickets 😁😁
Smart brother. Wise
He saved his money and bought an Elvis portrait for our mom 😂😂 He was an Awesome son/brother 💜💜
Do you remember Lucky's Supermarket and Alpha Beta?
I used to shop at both stores. Lucky's was pretty good for low prices.
I lived only about 5 blocks away and had a Safeway close by too.
@@suzannelawson9215 Hi...I do remember 😁 On Soledad Cyn rd we had...Lucky's and Alpha beta and Safeway and Vons. All within about 5 miles 😁
@@willoughby1888
Did you ever eat at this Mexican restaurant which was on Colorado Blvd.
across from the Eagle Rock Plaza and near a big car wash place?
I don't remember the name of it at the moment but it was in Eagle Rock.
I ate there a few times when I was in the area and food was very good.
This was back in the late 1980's when I was there.
Don't know if it is still there or not? I used to shop sometimes at Montgomery Ward's in the Eagle Rock Plaza back in the 1980's as well.
Before scanners , I used to dread price changes, having to scrape the old label off, I always got stuck with the baby food🤥
@@justahasbeen They do? Which ones?
@@justahasbeen from what? Falling prices? Lol.
Back in the 60’s and 70’s we had one grocery store, a Piggly Wiggly, within a 20 mile radius. I can remember walking through it with bare feet as a kid. Bottoms of them were black when we came out, lol. Makes me think back. Very nice memories. 🥰
I remember my mom taking us kids to the Piggly Wiggly in the seventies. She wore bell bottoms and had bare feet. If I saw a bare footed woman in the grocery store today, I would think they escaped from an asylum, lol
Looking at these photos really beings back memories. The smell and taste of food.
You can bet those rollers were out of those ladies hair and they were perfectly coifed by the time their husbands made it through the front door. Supper was on the table too. Different times with different priorities.
Just in time for a good beating if it got too cold for the old man 🤣
Well you know you could afford a family on one income...now people can’t even afford them on 4(parents both working two jobs) in some places.
@@momentsformoms9467 are you kidding? We live in the richest country in the world! Even in areas with crazy prices like California, the minimum wage is high too. We are a single income family with 7 children. It takes sacrafice. We don't have cable, eat out a lot, but used clothes and cars, everyone doesn't have a cell phone, etc. We also have more opportunity than they did on where we live and the jobs we have which allow better choices. Every single mom I have met that says they have to work have nice things. What they really mean is they want to work to butly those things. Fine... But call it like it is. Don't play the rich victim. We are all so blessed in America.
@@thesaintmustwalkalone708 well good for you but it’s not that way here. We don’t have cable or eat out much either. There’s plenty we don’t do & still can barely afford bills which aren’t even that high to begin with.
@@momentsformoms9467 cell phones? Internet? Second hand stores? One vehicle (don't need two if one stays at home) ? We are still by far the richest nation in the world and complaining makes us look like spoiled brats. We could all sacrafice much more if we really wanted it. If you are "barely" paying your bills, you shouldn't be eating out at all or have imternet
My mother would NEVER wear curlers out anywhere, and I wasn’t allowed to either. Thank you Mom!!!
!my grandmother, mother did but always with a fancy silk headscarf covering it. 😊
We lived in a small town, l remember my mom and other ladies going to the store with curlers covered with a scarf. I never did. Women these days would never dream of doing that; most use curling irons and blow dryers. They would rather go out with a straight style, or messy style.
Same EXCEPT the day before Easter. That was the one acceptable day ifI had to go out after my Easter hair was done.
Interesting fact. The Island of Bermuda would fine a woman if she wore curlers in public.
@@suestephan3255 They have good taste there. Let’s move there immediately!!!!
My small Indiana town, of 5000, had 3 “supermarkets” when I was a child. We also had 2 small family owned stores. At the “little red store” we would get lunch meat, penny candy, and the coldest sodas on earth. She also sold other items, of course. On the other side of town we bought sodas and sandwiches that were heated up in a toaster oven. I’m only 54 so I’m not ancient, and my town is down to one supermarket. We do have two dollar stores that sell some groceries, but I miss the old stores!!!
Me too. I'm 55 And when I was a kid we had a little store named Pops right down the street. They had the old fashion coolers, old fashioned Coke machine and penny candies. My siblings and I along with our cousins would go around the neighborhood and collect glass coke or Pepsi bottles and turn them in for 10 cents each so we could buy penny candies. Then we would go back to the house and divide up the candy. My childhood was great and Pops was my favorite store! Miss those wonderful days.
It won't be long we will only have Amazon. We will be all confined to our houses with masks on our faces and we will be appeased by ordering from Amazon!
I miss Cub Foods.
I’m a Hoosier too! In the 50’s we had a drugstore and family market within four blocks. Then we got a Standard supermarket. Wow.
I still miss that distinctive smell that came form the hard wood floors and other stuff in the good ol' stores. I even still remember our local feed store that had the old wooden floors and that combination of smells from all the feed and grains you would scoop up dump in the scale and then bag it but sadly that store closed like so many other of our mom n pop stores when wally world infiltrated our area
I JUST commented on them! Like 🤤 right? The memory? My brain needed that recall 💗
Yes,each shop had its own distinctive smell!
Does anyone remember that smokers could smoke in most grocery stores? Some people just put them out on the floor..They had ashtrays at the door inside and out...
Managers just had the night cleaner sweep them up with the rest of the debris.Could you imagine that today? Not!!
A great look at a piece of American history! Thanks.
I remember going to Luckys Market and heading straight for the coffee aisle. They had a grinder right there and the smell of freshly ground coffee was heavenly to my brother and I. Then when my kids were little, I could send them down the block to Shortys Meat Market with a note saying please give the girls a pack of smokes for me and they did. I quit smoking years ago and my girls never started smoking. Now my grandkids are teenagers and they go to the grocery store for me and deliver the groceries to my door. Such good memories!
My Nan sent us kids to buy her cigarettes. We also bought my Grandmother's chewing tobacco!
My friends mom was very pretty and I remember her saying to us little girls to always put on fresh lipstick when going out to get the mail!
yep. my mom and gram wouldnt leave the house w/o fresh lipstick- and also gram said “always put on a clean apron and fresh lipstick before your husband comes home from work.” they wouldnt EVER be caught dead in public in curlers. we were trained that was trash- almost pornographic.
Now you go to walmart, there a sea of grocery carts waiting to run you over pushed by speechless people.
Not like the good old days.
I remember how the food was so good back in the 70 !!! And do you remember when you go to the grocery, always a boy packing your bags and they walk to the care with you to put your grocery in the trunk! Who remember this? We are a long way of that today!!!😉
I shop at Safeway in Sun City Arizona & they always ask if you need help to the car, but we are a retirement community...lol
I live in Texas and all the supermarkets around me have someone to pack your bags and take them to your car.
@Moonchild
Yep.....That's the one.
Bell & Dell Webb.
I remember that
Also, today, you have to watch that boy packing your bags, that he might be carrying a small but well oiled automatic, with a decent notion of using it on someone he doesn't like!
One important detail was omitted: Most neighborhood gossip was spread through the grocery store. During the check writing process ladies would tell cashiers who was sleeping with whom and such; that little Billy, the newspaper boy, was actually Norbert’s son from Edna and not her husband Edwin. Good times!
The second best place for gossip my mom used to say.....the beauty parlor!!!
@@howiesexton7519 Still is !! 🤣🤣
Is it true that when a woman went into a beauty parlor, she got a head full of suds and an ear full of dirt?
@@howiesexton7519 My aunt ran one in the 70's when I was a child, mom had to drag me there sometimes when everyone in the house was at work or school, and it's true !
Not only the grocery store, but the beauty parlor and Barbershop we're hotbeds of gossip.
Those ladies in curlers were preparing for their men to come home from work.
exactly....I know a woman many years ago. That she would do everything she could around the house, but when it was time for her husband to arrive she made sure she was presentable for him.
I love this. He’s the one who mattered. Today women look crazy at home and go out looking better for the wrong people.
@@AmaniEats Wha? Of course people look crazy at home it's your HOME, where no one judges you. You can walk butt ass naked at home??
@@AmaniEats speak for yourself dear...
2 of them looked like teenagers.
I remember in the mid 60s I was about 7 yrs old helping my mom push 2 stuffed carts full of groceries out to the car and my mom complaing bitterly about being " robbed" having to pay $35.00 for a weeks worth of groceries! Wow. 35 bucks dont go far today!
This is a great example that free market economies work well when hearts that are honest! People in other countries would love to have all these items available under one roof! God bless the United States! Thanks!
I remember my grandmother teaching me about budgeting, and telling how hard it was for them to get by in the mid fifties. She needed ten dollars a week for all their groceries, and that fed their family of five. Amazing!
I miss S & H green stamp books and the A & P.
Geez. I remember those. I was little but loved filling the books with those stamps to earn a product.
@@caridadrevilla2439 There were some pretty cool prizes available! We lived near an S&H green stamp store in Royal Oak, Michigan, and I remember my mom pulling the green stamps out of sacks of groceries from the A&P.
@@Lifetalk849 yes. We were living in Boston then. The good old days!!
My mother bought a "Boston rocker" with S + H green stamps lol
A&P had Plaid Stamps
I love the recollection videos and have several coffee table books on many subjects. I was born in 1967 so my memories start after that time but my favorite time frame is post war to the mid 60's. I feel like I was born a generation to late!! The 1st photo with the ladies in the hair rollers was funny. These ladies could either have their hair washed and set and do their errands or they set at home and had the hairdresser brush and style. If they had a big night out, they would set and go about their errands. When we were kids, you behaved in the store or you were sent to the car. You looked forward to picking out your favorite cereal hoping for a good prize inside. Mine was Quisp!! You could look around quietly if Mom found someone to catch up with. We had to clean up before we went shopping. Nowadays. Kids scream and run around, people wear their pajamas to shop or look like slobs and stand around blocking the aisles. It's just as bad on an airplane. No class!!
So crazy that I ran across your comment because I was telling my son just last night about Quisp cereal.
Loved those Green Stamps. We saved up enough to get a huge unabridged dictionary which helped me throughout junior high and high school. On its own wooden pedestal in the living room (like an exhibit) it was so big. The actual green stamp store where you could pick things was a fascinating place. We went there several times in the nearest larger town. What I miss in the chain grocery stores was that the manager -- always a man -- was up front near the cashiers and actively engaged, making sure customer service was right and that there were not long waiting lines. They were very visible and active with customers, unlike the hidden, behind-the-scenes store managers today. When I worked at the small independent neighborhood grocery nearest our house, at age 16, the owner told me simply to "add twenty percent" as I opened up cases of cans or anything else, set the pricing (sticker) gun, and shelved the items. He was not usually there at night, so just trusted me, a teenage high school student, to compute all the prices myself -- without a calculator! Never gave me any of them nor complained about my work.
My mom worked as a butcher in the late 50s (a place called food city in, now south Phoenix) and she has a picture of all the butchers lined up behind the meat case in about 57. She was the youngest in line, fresh out of high school.
Wow, that was amazing. Back in the 50s employment was so restrictive. There were men's jobs and women's jobs. Kudos to your mother! Your mother must be around the same age as I am.
Why don’t u post that photo on ur TH-cam channel and narrate it. Ppl would love to see it. Just show the photo, then text info or speak about it. That also preserves the photo for years on here.
I like Food City. Even though I nicknamed it Food Shitty. They have a good Hispanic food section.
I remember going to the butcher's store. The one good thing about butcher stores were that they really knew meat. You could specify what you were after and they'd give you pointers or opinions or help you get a good cut. And I think I remember them wrapping it up in brown oil paper for your short trip home.
I remember my mom walking through the store isle's puffing on a cigarette, if she wanted to see if the grapes tasted good she would just pick one off a bunch and eat it right then,apparently that was accepted... And she would open a box of butter and just purchase one stick at a time. Things have definitely changed over the years!
Yep. Smoking & testing.
I still test grapes before I buy them. I thunk watermelons too.
I still pick one grape off to sample. Maybe not during Covid but otherwise I did.
My wife always samples grapes! How else would you know if they were sweet enough?
@@zuzuspetals9281 here I see families with kids giving them bananas or apples to eat while shopping. They don’t pay for them of course
We had Star Market growing up in the 60's. Sometimes we would pile in the back of a pickup to the store. Entering the entrance of the store was a room that we the kids could stay and watch TV while Mom shopped. There were ashtrays at the end of each isle and a soda machine in the back where a cup would fall down and you would pick your fav soda pop.
I live in Queens in New York city and although we have big box stores and supermarkets. We still have grocery stores. There are a few in my neighborhood of different ethnic groups and they sell everything.
Same thing here in da Bronx
You had to know your math to be a cashier in those days. I still miss the butcher shops in the neighborhoods. Yes, hair rollers and scarves were big outdoor amongst the moms, my mom visited me at my school with her shades, stirrup pants, sweater cardigan set, and the hair roller and scarfs. I was mortified but the kids thought she was cool and pretty. Wow writing a check and people look at you strange when you use cash today!
Mid 60s, a local drugstore, with soda fountain. I never had any money, but even then, it felt nostalgic to go in there. My buddy and I would go to the magazine rack, pick a comic book or a teen magazine that had new stories about the Beatles. We would sit on the floor and read for an hour or more, put the magazines back and go home. That was in North Hollywood Calif. but the atmosphere felt like something out of Leave it to Beaver
We had a neighbor who grew cherries! We would run down the street and hide in the trees eating cherries all day!! They just don't taste the same now.
Also, you probably won't get the skitters today either, as you must have back then. (I know I would have!)
My mom was one who would wear the curlers in her hair and go to our local grocery store. As a kid, I was beyond embarrassed to be seen with her and her curlers. I wouldn't care today, but when you're 12 years old, it matters a lot. lol
Lol, mine did too, back in the 60's when I was about 5. I thought that was normal at the time
Same
My mom used to cover her rollers with a bandana. She had several colors. Some were silk. And there was always a cigarette between her fingers(Kent) in one hand and her list in the other. I pushed the cart😊 Man, I miss those days!
@@SassyPetal haha - yeah, my mamma smoked in the grocery store too. Long line? No problem, light one up and chit-chat with neighbors. Everything was so laid back compared to today. I miss it sometimes.
It mattered then.
I worked in the industry since 1972...just retired, I have seen alot of change in those years....
Growing up in the 1970s meant the tail end of 5 and dime stores with wooden floors generally. The owners wore a white shirt and tie always. The stores had a nice new “toy” smell too. The noise of the big cash register “cha Ching” - lol
My grandparents owned a grocery store in Durant, Oklahoma. It was a big part of my childhood and I have lots of great memories from it- grandad cutting lunchmeat for customers, the old soda coolers, the sound of the candy case opening, petting their cat that followed them inside when they opened, grandmother letting me push the big buttons on the old metal cash register when she was ringing people up and so much more. My favorite is every week when the Frito Lay man Mr. Belcher would show up and let me and my sister crawl into the back of his delivery truck and pick a bag of chips. It closed in the 80’s after grandad passed.
Paints a fine picture of community. Something we are sorely lacking today, sadly.
Lovely memories💚
Back then, women wore curlers alot more than just in grocery stores. And many of them, made sure they had their lipstick on at the same time. I'vd seen in recent years, women in Walmart wearing their pajamas.
I don’t believe check out lines were any longer during the long era of check writing. In fact I remember them as shorter. I worked in the grocery industry from bag boy to assistant store manager during the 70s and 80s for both independents and Safeway. We had a crazy notion of customer service in those days. When things got busy, codes were announced over the intercom that signified the need for either baggers, cart gatherers, cashiers or all the above. If you wanted to keep your job you hopped to it no matter what department you were working in or what you were doing. Cashiers were expected to be be able to accurately add up purchases at a minimum speed and bag boys were trained how to safely bag items rapidly. Usually the cashiers were friendly and chatted with customers as they manually rang up their orders and even counted change back to cash customers and said thank you for your business. Empty, ratty looking shelves and display cases were not tolerated by management. The customer came first.
Fast forward to today. I divorced Target about three years ago because a cashier refused to scan my purchase because I "misgendered" him/her/it. And when the manager came over, she told me that her priority was to "provide her non-mainstream employees with a work environment that they could feel safe in."
Back in the late 50s, early 60's, I would get a bag of Tom's potato chips and a RC Cola for .25¢. The neighborhood grocery store sold pickles from a barrel for 5¢ each (they were like 5 inches long and delicious (especially in summer).
Yes, I lived the pickles from the barrel at Pantry Pride market
Do you remember the pop drink called "Bubble Up?"
I used to love it.
Yeah, and RC Cola came in 16 ounce bottles, not 10 ounce like Coke and Pepsi did. And it cost the same, 10 cents!
@@tomfields3682
We used to get these frosted glass mugs of A & W for 25 cents.
It was the best! At an A & W Restaurants.
@@suzannelawson9215 A 7 Up knock off
I remember working as a bag boy back in the 60's and bagging groceries was an art unlike today.
Screaming Yellow Zonkers at 6:40...my entire family yelled out loud...LOVE those. Thanks.
I remember going with my mother to the A&P in Connecticut in the late 50's. It had a cold room for the meat dept which we loved, and at checkout the groceries were put in crates that were put on a conveyor belt that moved them to an outside loading area. My mom drove around to the back of the store and the groceries were then loaded into our trunk.
We shopped at A&P in Chicago in the sixties. Good memories.
We used to have a grocery store with the conveyor belt. You’d pull your car up to the front of the store, and your groceries would roll out of the little window so you could load them in your car. An old P & C grocery.
Yes A&P. And you could collect S&H Green stamps
@@chasethecat3839 Yesssss!!!! 10,000 stamps would get you a potholder. 😂 Loved those stamps.
@@erikalee9548 haha..yes!!
I’m so glad I was born in time to shop at an actual grocery store.
Thank you for making and posting this video. Very interesting!
Momma & I get sheets & sheets of S & H Green Stamps on Saturday. Also, we had hundreds of the books that you put the pre-glued stamps into. She saved all the empty metal coffee cans & every week we'd stuff more in. One day Momma & I gathered our 30 coffee cans of stamps & gathered all the books they got in. We would then went a sponge & glued them all in on our huge dining room table. It took several days to glue them in all our books. I don't remember how many we had, but it was any insane amount. We had 5 in our family. Daddy would drive us to the S & H food stamps redemption center. We had a catalog that showed how many books you'd need for a kitchen chair/ 2 step step stool & hundreds of other things for your home.It was so much fun! I Don miss those simpler times...
My folks had a dry goods store in Chicago in 1955. It was a small store, one store front. It had many things, starting from canned goods, cereals, candy, school supplies, fresh bread and bakery items, some drugs like aspirin, ex-lax, etc. My first recollection of a Supermarket was in 1958 and it was an A & P self serve supermarket. I also remember a National Supermarket, but I never was in one. I started driving a car in 1965 and all stations were full serve, not self service like today. The first self service station was in Mauston, Wisconsin. It was a Kickapoo franchise. Only 1 pump, you filled up and went to a window and paid. This was a home that someone lived in and in his front room was this window that he slid open to get cash from you, no credit cards, no checks. Thanks….Jim
PS……I still live in the Chicago area, but I ran into some stations in Shelby, North Carolina that still operate after hours, with the place closed, if you use a credit card. It would be nice in other remote areas.
When I was a child there were supermarkets, just small ma and pa delicatessens just about on every block
I also remember people smoking as they shopped 😬
LOL that's one thing I don't miss :D
@Moonchild way back in 70's we had Alpha Beta in California. Yes they smoked there
Before scanners, there was plenty of time to make out a check.
Yet they still wait until the last few seconds. Even when all they had to fill out was their name,they wouldn’t do it until they got their total.
@@momentsformoms9467 The comedian Sebastian Maniscalco has a very funny routine that includes check-writing at grocery stores. It's on TH-cam.
The transition from the grocery store to a supermarket was so profound that it even found its way into the lyrics of the Sonny and Cher song "The Beat Goes On".
I remembered the stores but the memory had almost fade away. These photos gave new life to my memories. Thank you.
Born in 53 in Germany. I got the list from my mom.waited at the store for my turn, the owner/ clerk got one thing at a time, I brought my own basket.( Kinda like lil house on the prairie)Then off to the butcher, then to the "Gärtnerei", the garden store, where they grew the food themselves, in the winter it was shipped from Holland, citrus came from Spain. Then to the dairy store, for cheese and milk all local and fresh! All within our little village, where everyone knew everyone.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if young children like the ones shown from the 60’s could go to the store in safety these days?
I remember as a kid we didn't have to worry the bad guys on every corner. You could go play all day & your parents didn't have to worry about you making it home.
If you know anything about true crime, it wasn’t. We have much lower rates today we just hear about it more
@@missionquestthing That's actually not true but cool story.
My mom NEVER went grocery or any kind of shopping unless her hair was “just so” & she looked “ravishing” until the day she died at 85 [2018]! Daddy hired her a maid & she cleaned the house before Coralee arrived ... [what must she “think” of us] more “visiting” happened during that time!
I don't ever remember women in public with curlers in their hair. Everyone was dressed make up and hair and nails done. My mom would always be done up and ready.
I grew up in farm country and folks dressed up to go into town to go shopping. My parents owned a grocery store and a lot of farmers came in the store wearing polished shoes and their newest pair of bib overalls smelling like Old Spice after shave.
@@alisontopalian8592 I was thinking the same thing after seeing the curler picture. I know folks had wraps to cover them but I don't think the average person would leave the house that way. Maybe a regional difference? I have the impression too that most dressed up when running errands in town.
My mom would go to the grocery store in curlers and wear a head scarf, but she would have to put her red lipstick on! And I remember being so embarrassed when I had to go with her, when her hair was in curlers! Lol! To this day, I would never be caught dead in curlers out in public! She also had a small portable pink hairdryer with a big hood that would fit over her curlers. My goodness, was that thing loud as well!
A regular June Cleaver
I loved this! I remember the older stores with creeky wood floors. Meat counter. My lovely late Father used to cut and then deliver chickens. To stores and restaurants all around the area for miles. I got to ride shotgun in the truck many times as did my 4 bros. I was the oldest and only girl tho. So I got a few special treats now and then. I especially remember one of these stores where the little deli counter was the first place I headed. Guy knew I was a true cheese freak lol. He always took a huge round of Colby out and gave me a big slice! My grandparents used to take me to an old Ben Franklin five and dime with wood floors and an emporium filled to the ceiling with stuff. Gosh I miss them all! Even the laundromat! Thanks and Happy New Year🙏😍🎉
Yeah, I remember the wood floors, tin ceilings, wood crates and produce baskets and paper bags. And of course cashiers that manually entered the prices into the cash register. I was a little kid in the early 60s. Born in New York 1956. When I was 9 years old Mom would send me grocery shopping and the laundromat with my younger brother. She would be at work all day and told me that she needed my help because she couldn't do it alone. It gave me a sense of responsibility and I learned to shop and do my own laundry. Rest in peace Mom 🌹💖