Saturday, August 2, 2008

Oceans apart

Downtown Flint's Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company in 1909.


6 comments:

  1. I can still remember shopping at the A&P on Dort Highway with my folks. The freshly ground coffee smell comes to mind as soon as we walked through the front doors.

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  2. Yo, anonymous -- my aunt and uncle worked at the A&P on Dort Highway for many, many years.

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  3. does the window ad state: 18lbs. granulated sugar, for a 1.25$?? and we wonder why there's an obesity epidemic...

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  4. Damn bustup, good eye. But look how skinny the people in the photo are. Maybe they lose weight carrying all that sugar home.

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  5. yeah, that's true. come to think of it, I've never seen a fat hummingbird either. Maybe we're onto something here, a kind of inverted South Beach diet thing...

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  6. I have some photographs of the inside of a grocery store in flint in the 70's. I would love to post them here. How can I do that? The photos show the cashier and my mom shopping.

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