If you grew up in Fort Worth, you may remember Buddies, Worth Food Market, A&P, Safeway or any of the scores of other long-gone markets where your family shopped. Only a few of their buildings survive today.
May 12, 1942: The new A&P supermarket at 1608 Hemphill St. at West Maddox Avenue was 12,000 square feet, “believed to be the largest of its kind in this section of the country.” The interior is finished in cool green and white. ”The Super Market brings to Fort Worth its first example of the new mass display, mass sales food market, operated on much the same basis as the larger department stores,” the Star-Telegram reported. The location today is the newly opened Dickies Skate Plaza.
12, 1978: Mr. & Mrs. Robert Tillery at the closing of their grocery store at 2202 Forest Park Blvd. Aug. 27, 1978: The auction of Tillery Grocery.Oct. 15, 1952: Partial interior view of A.L. Davis Food Store No. 3., 2800 Azle, Texas. Shown is L.A. Duke, manager, stocking milk and egg supplies.Dec. 18, 1952: Bill Meillmier, owner of Bill’s Food Store, hangs sign “Kiddie Korral” where children will have free access to mechanical riders, a horse and a spaceship.Dec.
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