Vintage grocery

This unused printable vintage grocery store receipt was printed for Ditto’s Store in the 1940s. Ditto’s was located on 644 Washington Avenue in Hagerstown, MD and could be reached at telephone number 1588J. The receipt has yellowed with age. Two small illustrations are included at the top of the invoice. One shows a store clerk,...Read More

in grandma's cupboard.....

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Cause everyone has to eat, right?

I was surprised at the number of reminisces about "living in curlers" I came across when doing a few of the previous posts. These commenters typically remembered setting their hair the moment they got home from work or school, and leaving their curlers in till the next day. So what's "living in curlers" like? A typical home set in the `60s was done with brush rollers, with the most typical being classic black wire brush rollers. They are often itchy as well as prickly to wear, but are more…

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Supermarkets proliferated across Canada and the United States with the growth of automobile ownership and suburban development after World W...

You won't need your coupon book for this one.

In the US, there is a gigantic supermarket seemingly everywhere you look. A Wal-Mart Super-Center on one corner, a Costco on the other… but it wasn’t always this way. The transition from small town grocer or big-city corner market to the massive mega-stores of today took decades, and the ramifications changed our world more than … Continue reading "‘Pile it High, Sell it Low’: The Saga of the Supermarket"