"spa" = 'neighborhood grocery store', aka 'convenience store'?

[Barbara Need]

I'm not sure I've ever been inside (maybe to pick up a paper)--but a
friend from school says he remembers the store and the store front
(seen from the Google link) is familiar. I would guess it is a
convenience store. I can't think that I would have missed an eatery,
given that I worked not far down the street.

Barbara

On 1 Mar 2011, at 2:08 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> At 3/1/2011 01:24 PM, Barbara Need wrote:
>> Andover Spa in Andover! I lived in Andover for 10 years and do not
>> remember this institution at all (but I know the street)! I wonder
>> when it opened--I will check with my friends still there.
>
> I missed the origin of the Oxford Spa as an eatery.  Haven't been in
> the old neighborhood for a while.
>
> And then tell us (or perhaps it's only me that's still interested, as
> the old geezer perhaps longest in the Boston area and thus with the
> longest history of "spa") whether it's (1) only, or predominantly, a
> soda (frappe?) fountain; or (2) a "cafe", with a wider menu; or (3)
> just a "convenience store", aka "grocery".

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