Grocery Archaeology

Original Tenant:  A&P Address:  60 Center St - Hornell, NY Opened:  late 1950s/early 1960s Closed:  early 1980s Later Tenants:  Salvation Army Family Store Photographed:  August 2020 Having toured the large supermarket in North Hornell, we are now taking a look at a former store to the southeast of downtown. Now a Salvation Army thrift store, this building appears to be either a low-budget centennial style store , or perhaps a retrofit of an older store. By the way, Salvation Army was closed because I was here on a Sunday. As we see in so many 1950s/60s-era supermarkets, the relatively small (in this case 13,000 square feet) store was built with a gigantic parking lot on a huge property (in this case about 2.5 acres). And the A&P shaped sign is still there on the parking lot! Route 36, or Maple City Drive, is visible on the overpass in the background. My assumption is the raised freeway, which cuts through the downtown...

We have two more groups before we finish New York! The first one is in the Finger Lakes and Southern Tier regions of New York, in the central part of the state from near Syracuse down to Hornell and across to Binghamton. And dedicated readers of The Market Report will know that we've actually  done this area before  with several stores. Well guess what, we're back for even more! 26 stores to be exact, with coverage on all three blogs. The Finger Lakes are a series of eleven long north-south lakes in central New York, with the Southern Tier being the region of NY right south of that on the Pennsylvania border. Here's where we'll be going, from east to west and then to the south: Skaneateles Lake:  Skaneateles Owasco Lake:  Auburn, Moravia Cayuga Lake:  Waterloo, Ovid, Trumansburg, Ithaca Seneca Lake:  Geneva, Watkins Glen Keuka Lake:  Penn Yan, Branchport, Prattsburgh, Hammondsport, Bath Southern Tier:  Hornell, Canisteo, Big Flats, O...