Grocery Archaeology

Original Tenant: A&P Address:  49 Old Route 22, Clinton, NJ Opened:  1970s Closed:  2015 Later Tenants:  demolished Photographed:  June 2020 The 1970s saw a lot of new construction for A&P, especially in the northwestern NJ area. Just in the past few weeks, we've seen Califon , Belvidere , Andover , the original Vernon store, Budd Lake ... you get the picture. Here in Clinton, the earlier 1950s store next door was replaced by this store around the middle of the decade, it seems. The roughly 30,000 square foot store lasted with its original signage right until the end in 2015 when this store closed without a buyer. In mid-2021, the store was finally demolished for a new redevelopment that includes smaller-scale retail and affordable housing, but I was lucky enough to get the store before it was touched! There's a lot of great coverage of this store out there already, but I needed my own collection of pictures. For the highlights, check out Acme Style's...

Original Tenant: A&P Address: 37 Old Route 22, Clinton, NJ Opened:  1950s Closed:  1970s Later Tenants:  Eckerd > Rite Aid > Walgreens Photographed:  June 2020 The original A&P in Clinton, NJ was here at 37 Old Route 22, in a 17,000 square foot store with a barrel roof. I don't have a whole lot of information about this store other than the fact that it closed in the 1970s when a replacement store was built next door . It then became an Eckerd, then a Rite Aid, and most recently a Walgreens, and that information comes to us courtesy of JoshAustin610, who also has a photo of the store as a Rite Aid . I assume the current facade was installed either at the end of Eckerd's life or at the beginning of Rite Aid's time here, but it most certainly does not date back to the A&P era. I'm unclear what this store would've looked like as an A&P; most importantly, was it ever retrofitted with a Centennial-style facade, which wouldn't look all that dif...