Bygone stores
Posted by:
nordsider
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Date: November 12, 2013 11:48PM
In the 40s, and early 50s, my mother walked to the grocery store, and butcher and bakery shops; necessary shopping, at shops that seemed to be located within every city block. I never realized back then, the amount of my mother's time spent shopping and carrying these food items home. There were couple of supermarkets a few blocks distant, but they were not convenient as the stores within our block, for a shopper on foot -- not planned for car-based convenience..
Most of those stores/shops must now be a near rarity, if not extinct.
However, this must be a very rare exception; the meat market that my mother shopped, at least beginning in the early 40s, and still owned, I assume from its name, by the same family for 106 years:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=1964+North+Halsted+Street,+Chicago,+IL&hl=en&ll=41.917881,-87.648503&spn=0.006993,0.013046&sll=39.739318,-89.266507&sspn=7.398724,13.359375&oq=1964&hnear=1964+N+Halsted+St,+Chicago,+Illinois+60614&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=41.917881,-87.648503&panoid=Rx-dHKjNJdoV6VY_gSWhQQ&cbp=13,263,,0,0
By the way, I rarely eat meat, nowadays.
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 11/14/2013 09:39AM by nordsider.