Red Owl Super Market, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Victory Market, Margaretville, NY.
American Legion Post, Paso Robles, CA.
ACME Market, Haverford, PA.
Samson Auto Salvage, Los Angeles, CA.
Bohack Market, Queens, NY.
Arell Equip, Co. Inc., Pacific Highway, Seattle, WA.
Grand Union Market, Crown Point, NY.
Gates Tires, Mar Vista, CA.
Wetmore’s Garage, Ferndale, MI.
Holiday Playland, Point Pleasant, NJ.
Cranmer’s Baths, Long Branch, NJ.
Main St., Alta Vista, Kansas.
Blockfront, Ozone park, NY.
Newman’s Drugs, Lake Huntington, NY.
Wow, an AMC bonanza, with the wagon and the yellow Matador up top, then the Javelin outside of Bohack’s market.
I’m pretty sure I’ve been in that Acme Market in Haverford, PA. I believe my paternal grandmother used to shop at that location.
Excellent bunch of photos. The 1971 Electra in the Acme parking lot really stands out for me.
What also stands out are just how much more interesting street scenes, and in particular commercial districts – where you would find the supermarkets and drug stores and such that populate these photos – were in the 1970s. And frankly, really through the ‘aughts. The bland, “clean” modern style is just so boring to me.
For example, the lede photo now looks like (the attached and this link):
https://maps.app.goo.gl/JUWwK3M1qxmJ7gmQ7
Better? I don’t think so. Supermarket, bars, restaurants, and I think a liquor store replaced with a bland – now apparently vacant – set of non-descript storefronts and no parking. This is why every downtown looks like every other downtown and it’s all so incredibly boring.
Pardon the pedant in me but that’s a ’72 Buick. The boards at Point Pleasant beach and the bath house certainly bring back memories. Bath houses no longer exist along the Jersey shore, probably related to land values, but they were great for day trippers. You spend the day at the beach then clean-up for evening activities. Don’t know what people do anymore.
Is that a ’33 Willys on top of Samson’s Auto Salvage?
And PLEASE tell me there’s a Roadrunner parked at Acme market…
Pair of 76 or 77 Cutlass Supremes at the Holiday Playland. Both sporting landau rooves and the same colour interiors. Looks like the same wheel covers too.
Wonder which one got there first and said, “Hey there’s another car just like mine!”
I’m not sure the colour of the Mustang II in that same shot enhances its look positively.
Recall a # of “Maverick’s”, “Torino’s” about that color as well.
Can picture “Edith Bunker” entering/exiting “Bohack’s”, in “Queens”. Not sure if I knew there was a place called “Ozone Park”. H’mm.