Today’s entry, comes by way of reader Steve, who submitted this flyer he found in his house. The flyer made its way behind the kitchen cabinets, against the wall where it sat since 1953.
How about a pound of rice for 19 cents?
A “peck” of potatoes? Yeah, I had to look it up. Look like it was a 20 lb. bag.
Steve also told me in the email that the building was still standing. So out I went to 1010 Campbell to see what was there….
Bars on the inside and the outside of the windows… 🙂
It’s always nice to find these little bits of information, and to find out some of the unknown history of the buildings we see and drive past on a regular basis.
Thanks again to Steve for sharing this.
MMM, mmmm! Good old Ovaltine. And only 69 cents! 😉
I wonder who won the “beautiful electric corn popper” raffle?
This looks exactly like Kobe’s Market in Ely, Minnesota, in the 1950’s. Same brick finish, apartments up top. Did Chubb’s have a stamped-tin ceiling too?
I notice “Kraft Canadian cheese” – wonder if that’s the same stuff they sell down here as “American cheese”?
Judy, I’m certain it’s the exact same cheese…
Maybe there was a set of “neighborhood market” blueprints they just passed around from town to town 🙂
I live on this street, just wanted to say a peck is not 20lb, more like 1lb, I used to get potatoes for my family as a child, I was sent for 4 peck!
Hi Jen. I was just going by what google said.. 🙂
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=one+peck+in+lbs&meta=
I lived just a few blocks away from the store. In the early sixty’s we referred to it as Ron’s. I am not sure if it had changed hands in the sixty’s. But I remember well buying penny candies and my dad sending me to get fresh hot red skinned peanuts for him. It was the closets store around and we were there everyday. Good memories.
A peck of potatos was fifteen pounds (15), when I first started to work a peck was the standard bag, that was back in 1956.