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1865 Springfield Ave, Maplewood, NJ

Original Tenant: ACME Markets Address: 1865 Springfield Ave, Maplewood, NJ Opened:  1941 Closed:  1960s Later Tenants:  Rite Aid > East Side Fitness Photographed:  March 2019 We're making a brief stop here in Maplewood, a small town in the northeastern corner of Union County. Despite the town's small size, we've actually seen two stores here, the Kings downtown and the Extra near the Irvington border . Springfield Avenue is a major thoroughfare, and we've seen many stores along it: to the east, the Newark ShopRite , the Newark Save-A-Lot , the former ACME and Supremo in Irvington; and to the west, the Vauxhall Whole Foods ,  The Meat House and Kings in Summit, and the ACME in New Providence . Today's 6500 square foot store was built in the early 1940s as an ACME, with Rite Aid moving in in 1985 . Up next we're going to be moving to the south to Union, where we'll be seeing a former supermarket tomorrow right here on Grocery Archaeology!