Used to walk to the A&P store when I was a kid to get an ice cream sandwich in the summer time. Thanks for the flashback!
I'd like to have the modern Dairy Queen. The modern one is what we have in town. Before they built our new Dairy Queen we had a different style than the vintage one. Also our earlier Dairy Queen had a model railroad built into a table! It was probably my first exposure to a real model railroad, and I remember having frequently having biscuits and gravy with my baby sitters and the many the many other retired folk there, so I still remember that Dairy Queen fondly.
Ditto... in the A&P flashback! I remember many of them... and some of the buildings are still in use as a different stores (CVS... etc). Same for the S&H green stamps and their stores. There were several different bonus stamps around in the 1960's... we collected the Top Value and Merchants stamps too. Sent from my SM-G530T using Tapatalk
On another site, about town history, yesterday someone posted a photo of our old A&P. Wow did that stir up memories from sixty years back!
One or two corporations are sensible enough to realize that free advertising is better than psychotically trying to grub every penny they can... When in doubt, model only fallen flags, even trackside. If you're scared the companies that survived don't want free advertising, don't give it to them! Rexall drugs, Piggly Wiggly and Der Weinerschnitzel FTW! Let your billboards say, It's Bouliva Watch Time and Ask the Man who Owns a Packard! Dare those scary corporate lawyers to come get you! I have no idea if Burma Shave was any good, but by God, their advertising signs were the best!
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