[Ads-l] Facebookery: "What was the A&P?"

[Jim Parish]

I believe there was an A&P in Hyde Park when I first arrived there, in 
1978. I don't know when it closed, but I have a vague memory of it that, 
if accurate, can't have been earlier than 1980.

Jim Parish


On 5/16/2017 11:54 AM, paul johnson wrote:
> Curious, in the forties I remember A&P in Chicago.  Memory says they 
> were always the worst kept stores always sort of dirty. If anything, 
> more neighborhood than chain store in their overall look.
>
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> On 5/16/2017 11:48 AM, Shawnee Moon wrote:
>> Admission: I'm old enough to have shopped there.
>>
>> Ann Landers, the late advice columnist, once said, "When an old 
>> person dies, a library burns."
>>
>> I've always liked that one, because all of their accumulated 
>> knowledge is gone. I can't think of how many times I've wanted to ask 
>> my mother something...
>>
>> A good thing though, is our culture is being recorded, every word, 
>> selfie, blog, news story, opinion and cat video, on the internet.
>>
>> ... maybe that's not such a good thing...
>>
>> Imagine in ten thousand years if man implodes, alien archaeologists 
>> come digging around our artifacts. Besides the great books and 
>> worktop arts, they'll also find half naked teenagers duck-lipped 
>> selfies...
>>
>> Mailed from the Moon 🌜
>>
>>> On May 16, 2017, at 8:11 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Some of us even remember the original name—the Great Atlantic and 
>>> Pacific Tea Company.  The last A&P in New Haven shuttered around 15 
>>> years ago, if memory serves.  It probably doesn’t, though.
>>>
>>> LH
>>>
>>>
>>>> On May 16, 2017, at 3:53 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Something about John Updike in high school.
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