micky wrote:
OT As Black Friday creeps forward to Wednesday, I'm trying to renew
my recolletction of what days and hours supermarkets were open in the
early 50's.

I lived in Western Pa. near Youngstown, Ohio, in a city of 50,000
people, and my earliest recollection is that it was open from 9AM to
5PM, M-F, not on Sunday, and I can't remember about Saturday.

What about Saturday?

Back in the day, when my state had a "Blue Law," stores could be open on
either Saturday or Sunday - pick one.

The demise of the silly Blue Laws was encouraged by one super-store chain's
novel solution: A new company was organized. Named "SUNDAYCO" and was a
wholly-owned subsidary of this city-wide chain.

Each Saturday night, it bought the entire physical plant and existing
merchandise from the chain for "One dollar and other good and valuable
considerations," ran the enterprises for 24 hours, then sold their holdings
back to the parent company Sunday night.

Our betters who ran the state government were none to pleased with this
affront. Even a couple of lawsuits were filed.

As I recall, the stores were full to overflowing every Sunday.