On Nov 25, 2:17*pm, Notat Home wrote:
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?

Later, maybe by 1956, *the store started staying open to 6.
There was only one supermarket on the north side. *.

Even though my father worked downtown, and we lived in *a nice totally
residential area, it was only 1.5 miles. *So he *usually either walked
to work or took the bus, and he often got a ride home with a friend
while he was waiting for the bus to go home. * There were only two
streets that went north from downtown, and one was really northwest
and went from industrial almost straight to farmland.

So my mother usallly had the car and she could go shopping between 9
and 3 (I got home from school at 3:35.) but women who worked or whose
husband took the car must have had a problem.

Anyone remember? * *Where were you in the 50's?

Here the grocery stores were open 9 to 5 during the week, and Saturday
morning. *Bakeries and butchers had the same hours. *Dairy products, and
ice, if you still had an icebox, were delivered to your home during the
week. *To this day I won't take my wife to the market on Saturdays,
because all the really old coots still shop then, slowly. *Banks had
even worse hours for the consumer. *The unions really fought to keep
those hours; I never understood why, as they would have gained more
members if the stores were open longer.

In the middle sixties we moved to Illinois and it was wonderful finding
you could shop in the evening.

chicago had union rules for the meat department, i am not certain of
the rules just visiting as a kid, but in the evening when the butchers
werent there the fresh meats were covered and locked securely you
couldnt buy meat.. this was true up till the early 70s when i got my
drivers license and helped drive me and my mom to chicago from
pittsburgh. i was 16...