Hi all. The link has been placed on the Links page under A&P Related
Articles. Click on '47 Years' if you are having problems accessing
the link from the Message page.
Thanks for the link EG.


--- In APTEAHISTORY@yahoogroups.com, "evergap" <evergap@g...> wrote:
>   (OK, let me try this one again-link wasn't usable in first post!)
>
>
>   Greetings to the APTEAHISTORY Yahoo Group,
>
>
> Here's a link, exclusively for this group, to an article that I
> came across this Wenesday morning:
>
>
>
> ' 47 years of food at the Brookfield A&P '
>
>
>
> http://www.rblandmark.com/main.asp?
> SectionID=4&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=753&TM=80251.21
>
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> EG

The next meeting of the A&P Historical Society will be held in the
Montvale Headquarters Lobby on Monday, October 24th at 5 PM.  The
primary purpose of this meeting will be to change out the current
Display of A&P Memorabilia in the display cases.  We plan to have an
extensive display of spices, so if you would like to place some of your
collection of spices on-loan to the display case "Exhibit," please
bring those items with you.  We will also have varying items in the
display cases, so if you have any items that are unique and highly-
presentable, please bring them with you.  Hope to see you there.

Craig J. Grybowski

President - A&P Historical Society

Email:   grybowsc@...

John is a member of this group and also collects A&P memorabilia. If
you click the link below you will see a picture of an A&P
weathervane as one of his items.

http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
AID=/20051017/NEWS01/510170334/1006


Collector has a thing for Burger Chef
By KEVIN RIORDAN
Courier-Post Staff


Before Wendy's and Burger King became ubiquitous in South Jersey --
and before McDonald's grew into a worldwide institution -- there was
Burger Chef.


During its heyday in the 1960s and early 1970s, this pioneering fast-
food chain had more than 1,000 stores nationwide and at least a
dozen in the tri-county area, from Cherry Hill to Deptford, from
Mount Holly to Marlton.


John S. Flack Jr. fondly remembers Burger Chef, especially its
signature space-age architecture and neon-bright white, orange and
aqua color scheme. He recalls the burgers, fries and shakes as
pretty darn good, too.


To make sure the rest of us don't forget, the 41-year-old Evesham
resident has a Web site devoted to Burger Chef's groovy glories.


"It wasn't around long, so there's a mystique about it," says Flack,
whose quintessentially '60s "raised ranch" house in the Woodstream
development is something of a shrine to the baby boom era.


Between 1946 and 1964, 76 million Americans came into the world, and
inventions and innovations like color television, suburban shopping
centers and franchised fast-food emporia transformed American life.


"I just made it," says Flack, who was born in 1964 and considers the
boom years "a magical time."


Nostalgia certainly accounts for some of the public interest in
everything from vintage TV shows to the roadside vernacular
architecture -- think Wildwood's "Doo-Wop" style -- once seen as
kitsch, or worse.


"There's been an explosion of books about roadside architecture,
about gas stations and diners and fast-food places," says Paul
Schopp, a South Jersey historian and Palmyra resident.


He notes that artists, architects and even economic development
experts are taking a fresh look at the era's exuberant aesthetics
and architecture.


"As a kid I was always interested in architecture," says Flack, who
is especially enamored with the "open kite" design of the original
Burger Chefs.


The chain debuted in Indianapolis in 1958; the following year,
Burger Chef announced plans to open 77 outlets in New Jersey,
including four in Camden County.


The first signed lease was for a Pennsauken site on Route 130, and a
former Burger Chef still stands -- albeit as a Penn-Jersey seafood
outlet -- on Route 73 in the township.


The Burger Chef chain was sold in 1968 to General Foods, according
to Flack.


After a period of expansion, a revamping of Burger Chef's image
proved unsuccessful, and the chain was sold to Hardee's in 1982. The
stores were converted to the Hardee's brand; the last Burger Chef,
in Cookville, Tenn., closed in 1996.


By then, the "open kite" design had changed to a more "natural" look.


"They lost that excitement," Flack says.


Flack, a collector and history buff since boyhood, became interested
in all things Burger Chef in 1999, when he discovered a Web site --
now down -- about the chain. He began augmenting his treasure trove
of table radios, emergency scanners, old broadcast tapes and other
materials with Burger Chef memorabilia culled from eBay.


That's where he purchased the distinctive geometric ceiling lamp in
his kitchen (Burger Chef, circa 1960) and the store blueprints and
franchise kits he proudly shows a visitor.


Flack is a longtime employee of the SuperFresh in Marlton and a
loyal volunteer at Virtua Health. He's also helped out with summer
camps for kids with muscular dystrophy.


But for a self-described shy individual, collecting and trading
Burger Chef goodies and other memorabilia is a way to connect with
others, as well as to the past.


"When you hold an actual artifact in your hand, it's a way to travel
back to a simpler time," Flack says. "There are more people out
there who like this stuff than I realized. I always thought it was
just me."


And lest anyone accuse him of favoritism, Flack also has a Web site
dedicated to another long-gone fast-food chain.


Gino's.


Reach Kevin Riordan at (856) 486-2604 or
kriordan@...
Published: October 17. 2005 3:00AM

This link takes you to the A&P page of the Groceteria.com website.
Although the text on this page is not all that flattering to A&P,
there are lots of good photo links at this site.

http://groceteria.net/ap/index.html#

Due to the fact that longer links cannot be inserted into messages,
the link to the story about John has been added to the the Links Page.
If you are having trouble accessing the link from the message, please
try under Links.

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I work for Ken Burns's company Florentine Fims, currently in production on a
series for PBS
about the American experience during the Second World War.  A small portion of
our script
alludes to an A&P store in rural Minnesota, and I hoped to enlist your help in
acquiring
photographs for the story.  Specifically, we are searching for photographs of
A&Ps
between 1941 and 1945 (the dates are somewhat flexible) that could pass for a
small
town.  The photos could be interiors or exteriors, and a human presence is
usually a plus
(we are looking for expressive pieces).  If anyone has such materials in their
possession, or
could recommend a collection that might, please reach me at:

tea.florentine@...

Kind regards,
Ted Alcorn

Hi Ted. I have sent you an email.

--- In APTEAHISTORY@yahoogroups.com, "fatherted57"
<fatherted57@h...> wrote:
>
> I work for Ken Burns's company Florentine Fims, currently in
production on a series for PBS
> about the American experience during the Second World War.  A
small portion of our script
> alludes to an A&P store in rural Minnesota, and I hoped to enlist
your help in acquiring
> photographs for the story.  Specifically, we are searching for
photographs of A&Ps
> between 1941 and 1945 (the dates are somewhat flexible) that could
pass for a small
> town.  The photos could be interiors or exteriors, and a human
presence is usually a plus
> (we are looking for expressive pieces).  If anyone has such
materials in their possession, or
> could recommend a collection that might, please reach me at:
>
> tea.florentine@v...
>
> Kind regards,
> Ted Alcorn
>

http://www.stargazettenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
AID=/20051110/BUSINESS/511100328


Old A&P set to come down soon
Town of Horseheads approves demolition permit;
asbestos removal starts today.
By ROBERTA McCULLOCH-DEWS
Star-Gazette
rmdews@...
November 10, 2005

Plant history

1965 - The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. opens the
food processing plant, billed as the largest of its
kind in the world.

1982 - The A&P facility closes; 1,000 people are
jobless.

June 2000 - Brad Cohen and Jeffrey Stern, Los Angeles
developers, purchase the 1.5-million-square-foot
property from A&P for about $5 million. They expect to
spend $4 million on renovations.

August 2000 - The building is renamed the Chemung
County Commerce Center.

November 2004 - Cohen and Stern announce they will
raze the property to make room for retail development.

Jan. 11 - Cohen and Stern announce that Wal-Mart
officials have signed an agreement to build a
Supercenter at the site.

June 8 - Developers Diversified Realty Corp., an
Ohio-based retail development company, announces it
has bought most of the property.


HORSEHEADS - The developers of the former A&P plant on
county Route 64 have been given the green light to
begin demolishing the vacant facility to make way for
retail development.

An engineering company hired by Ohio-based Developers
Diversified Realty Corp. said Wednesday night that a
Wal-Mart Supercenter is still expected to be the key
tenant, but the deal has not been finalized.

Horseheads Town Supervisor Mike Edwards said the town
issued the demolition permit Wednesday and the
developers will start the asbestos removal process
today.

That project is expected to take a month, Edwards
said, and demolition is scheduled to begin after that
and will continue for six months.

Rohan Freeman, director of the Hartford, Conn., office
of B.L. Companies, the developers' engineering
company, made a presentation to the Horseheads Town
Board that showed the future retail development
planned at the site. It will contain one main anchor
building and four additional structures, plus a gas
station.

Wal-Mart said in January that it would build a
Supercenter on the site, and Freeman said the lineup
still tentatively includes Wal-Mart and other
retailers.

"At this time, it (the major anchor) is probably for
Wal-Mart, but tenants are always negotiating," he
said. "But at this point, it's Wal-Mart."

Phil Serghini, Wal-Mart's community affairs manager
for New York state, could not be reached for comment
Wednesday.

If opened, the Supercenter is projected to employ
about 485 people, 200 more than the number who work at
the Big Flats Wal-Mart on Consumer Square. The store
would have a full grocery and operate 24 hours.
Specialty stores such as a pharmacy, optical store,
photo center and salon would have different hours of
operation.

The Horseheads Town Board held a public hearing
Wednesday night on the developers' rezoning request
for the A&P site.

"What we're here for is the zoning change. That needs
to be done so development can proceed," said George H.
Winner Jr., whose Elmira law firm - Keyser, Maloney &
Winner LLC - represents the developers. Winner, of
Elmira, is also a Republican state senator. "I think
the community should get excited because it is (the
development) clearly moving forward. The commitment of
major dollars to demolish the structure is under way."

The former A&P site is zoned for
manufacturing/industrial. The rezoning request is for
a planned unit development, which will require the
developers to get the approval from the Town Board for
any changes they might seek in the development
process.

Edwards said the board is waiting for results of the
State Environmental Quality Review before it takes
action on the rezoning request.

Freeman said Wednesday night's meeting was important
because it takes the development process to the next
step.

"Tonight was a big step. We got the public hearing
closed. The next step, once we get the SEQR approval,
would be for the town to vote on the zoning change."

Freeman said the company would like to begin
developing the property as soon as possible. "We'd
love to break ground early," Freeman said.

The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. opened the huge
food processing plant in 1965. It closed in 1982,
leaving 1,000 people jobless.

Developers Diversified Realty Corp. announced in June
that it had bought most of the 1.5-million-square-foot
property from Los Angeles developers Brad Cohen and
Jeffrey Stern.

Good Evening: I was wondering IF their was a program available that
could be used to increase the overall resolution of some of the pictures
that are posted here? I would think that their the best that they can
be but IF not could someone please tell how I could increasethe overall
quality of primarily the Colonial Style stores that are posted here?
                                          Thank you....
                                              Duane Boda
P.S. - I was wondering if A&P is currently operating any of their older
stores that were of Colonial architecture on the East coast? Or perhaps
in Canada? That would be a interesting tidbit of information. Thanks!

--- In APTEAHISTORY@yahoogroups.com, "aboda70" <aboda70@y...> wrote:
>
> Good Evening: I was wondering IF their was a program available that
> could be used to increase the overall resolution of some of the
pictures
> that are posted here? I would think that their the best that they
can
> be but IF not could someone please tell how I could increasethe
overall
> quality of primarily the Colonial Style stores that are posted here?
>                                          Thank you....
>                                              Duane Boda
> P.S. - I was wondering if A&P is currently operating any of their
older
> stores that were of Colonial architecture on the East coast? Or
perhaps
> in Canada? That would be a interesting tidbit of information.
Thanks!
>

Try this link...http://www.apsupermarket.com/locations.asp?
display=all&return_location=

It should go to a page at the A&P Website of current A&P locations,
If you click on
the 'Set as my store' link under the different locations it goes to a
page about the store and most have photos of the store exterior. I
have
seen a few there, mainly in NY, that still have the Colonial exterior
intact-though I imagine the interiors are more up to date.

Not sure about increasing the resolution of photos, but I believe
they
would have to be scanned at a higher resolution originally. The
drawback of this is it make slarger files and takes up more storage
space and you
wouldn't be able to get a many photos in the space allowed to post
them. But there may be some program to increase resolution and make
them clearer.

John F.

Demolition begins at former A&P plant
Wal-Mart Supercenter expected to be anchor for planned shopping
center.
By JEFF MURRAY
Star-Gazette
jmurray@...
December 20, 2005

JEFF MURRAY/Star-Gazette
The walls come tumbling down Monday as demolition of the former A&P
plant began in Horseheads.



HORSEHEADS - For more than 20 years, the former A&P plant has stood
as mute testament to economic hardship.

Now, the walls are finally starting to come down.

Contractors hired by the property's new owner, Developers
Diversified Realty Corp. of Ohio, started knocking down the outer
walls of the 1.5 million-square-foot facility Monday morning.

That proc-ess is expected to take about three months, said company
spokesman Scott Schroeder.

By summer, Developers Diversified Realty hopes to have new retail
tenants on the site, including a possible Wal-Mart Supercenter and
four or five smaller businesses.

The sprawling facility was billed as the world's largest food
processing plant when it was built by the Great Atlantic & Pacific
Tea Co. in 1965. It closed in 1982, throwing 1,000 employees out of
work.

Since then, marketing the massive building has proved difficult.

"I'm glad to see it come down and move forward to something that
will actually work on that site, that will bring revenue to the
community through sales tax," Chemung County Executive Tom Santulli
said.

"Many of us hoped we could put that building to good use, but it
really became mission impossible," Santulli said. "That building was
unable to meet the needs of everyone we ever took into it. So having
that thing demolished and having a whole new life breathed into that
area is going to be good for the community."

Hopes were raised in May 2000 when Los Angeles-based developers Brad
Cohen and Jeffrey Stern bought the property from A&P and poured
millions of dollars into renovations and aggressive marketing.

But last year, Cohen and Stern concluded they couldn't attract
industrial tenants. They decided to market the property instead as
retail space.

In June, they sold the property to Developers Diversified Realty,
which also owns Consumer Square in Big Flats and the Tops Friendly
Markets plaza on Elmira's Southside.

The new developers secured a demolition permit from the town of
Horseheads in November but had to wait for asbestos inside the
building to be removed before the plant could be torn down.

The developers still hope a Wal-Mart Supercenter will be an anchor
store, but said they don't have a final deal yet. Wal-Mart officials
announced earlier this year that they plan to build a 203,000-square-
foot Supercenter on a 20-acre parcel of land on the site, but they
have remained silent since that announcement.

Phone calls to Wal-Mart for comment Monday were not returned.

The other new retail businesses will make the biggest difference,
said George Miner, president of Southern Tier Economic Growth.

"It's the new stuff that is going to be of interest, that will
retain shoppers and bring new shoppers to the region," Miner said.

Developers Diversified Realty recently submitted a traffic study to
the town of Horseheads and requested that zoning for the site be
changed from manufacturing/industrial to planned unit development.
Town officials are waiting for a review of the traffic study by the
state Department of Transportation before making a decision on the
zoning change.

Motorists driving past the plant Monday on county Route 64 stopped
to watch the progress of the demolition. Considering the 40-year-old
building is in sight of Interstate 86, it will be a relief to see
the longtime symbol of futility finally crumble, said Horseheads
Town Supervisor Mike Edwards.

"I am so happy they started. I think everyone will appreciate it
being gone now," Edwards said. "It's just been hanging there, like a
millstone around your neck."

I am in the process of moving pictures from our Photos Section to a
webshots.com album. In this way, we will not run out of space for
people to post pictures. After a certain amount of time being
displayed on this site, the pictures will be moved to the webshots
site and erased here to make room for more photos. Below is the link
to where our albums can be viewed. I will also place a link in the
Links section for easy reference.

http://community.webshots.com/user/APHistory

http://www.stargazettenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
AID=/20051227/NEWS01/512270301

Sad goodbye for A&P
Ex-employees say demolition of Horseheads plant stirs emotions.
By JEFF MURRAY
Star-Gazette
jmurray@...
December 27, 2005

JEFF MURRAY/Star-Gazette
The former A&P plant - in recent years, called the Chemung County
Commerce Center - is being demolished to make room for retail
development in Horseheads.



HORSEHEADS - For years, Helga Petit of Horseheads couldn't drive
past the former A&P plant without feeling sad.

Petit joined her husband at the plant in 1966, a year after it
opened, and they were both among the 1,000 or so employees who lost
their jobs when the cavernous food processing facility closed in
1982.

For more than 20 years, the facility sat virtually empty, a silent
reminder of better days for Petit and hundreds of others.

When the 1.5-million-square-foot plant started coming down last
week, it was a bittersweet moment for Petit.

"The sad part was it wasn't just our job. It was our life, our
social life, our friends, it was our whole life. (Closing) was
devastating at the time," Petit said. "We had to relocate.

"It's kind of mixed feelings. I'm kind of glad not have to go by and
see it anymore," she said. "We had a lot of memories there and it
always would bring up the memories again. In that respect, maybe
it's good it's not there. It's also a little bittersweet. To watch
it go down is kind of sad."

The A&P property, purchased earlier this year by Developers
Diversified Realty Corp. of Ohio, will be demolished to make room
for a new retail center. Demolition on the property started last
week and is expected to take about three months.

Built by the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. and opened in 1965,
the Horseheads plant was billed as the world's largest food
processing facility and made everything from jelly beans to
macaroni. At its peak, the plant employed about 3,200 people.

Toward the end, that number had dwindled to just under 1,000. Robert
Parker of Rochester, formerly of Elkland, was one of the first of
many to get pink slips.

"I got laid off in March and it closed down at the end of May,"
Parker said. "We saw the writing on the wall. You work there 12 and
a half years and you think you're set for life and all of a sudden,
boom."

When the plant closed in 1982, it left a huge hole in the local
economy and the very fabric of the community, said retired Chemung
County Legislature Chairman John A. Flory.

Flory was on hand when the plant opened with a flourish, and as the
head of the county Industrial Development Agency, he struggled for
years trying to restore the site to its former prominence.

"It was quite impressive. I thought, 'This is going to be wonderful
for us,' " Flory said. "(When the plant closed,) it was sort of like
somebody popped the biggest balloon we had locally, as far as the
biggest employer. It's a sad thing for the community, but we hope
whatever replaces it will make it a booming spot again."

Developers Diversified Realty Corp., which also owns Consumer Square
in Big Flats and the Tops Friendly Markets plaza on Elmira's
Southside, bought the plant in June from Los Angeles-area industrial
developers Brad Cohen and Jeffrey Stern.

Cohen and Stern purchased the plant from the A&P Co. in 2000 and
hoped to revitalize it as a manufacturing and warehousing site. They
decided to put it on the market again when they were unable to
attract sufficient industrial prospects.

Former employees who watched one potential tenant after another fail
at the A&P plant are happy to see it finally go, even if with a
touch of regret.

"I think it's a good thing they are tearing it down and doing
something. It's been empty so long," said Marion Saxer of Elmira,
who worked at the plant for 16 years. "I hate to see it torn down,
but things have to go on."

Rita Buckbee of Elmira said it felt like the rug was pulled out from
under her when she lost her job after 17 years. Seeing the nearly
empty edifice over the years has been a sad reminder for Buckbee,
who hopes the property can finally be productive again.

"It was just like a big family. We all knew one another because
every department was seasonal," Buckbee said. "(Closing) was a sad
part of our life. It does make me feel happy now. It's been so long,
and I'm really glad that it's going to turn into something
completely new and different."

Don Allington of Horseheads worked at the A&P site longer than most.
Allington stayed on as caretaker after the plant closed, and
continued in that role when Cohen and Stern bought the plant.

Allington had high hopes for the plant's resurrection when the new
owners took over in 2000. Now he's watching those dreams turn to
rubble.

"It wasn't going to go and things weren't going to be like they
were," said Allington, who was among the first people hired in
1965. "I think it was disappointing for the whole community. I
expected they'd be doing something. We tried every angle. We put a
lot of time in that, a lot of money."

If Allington was at the A&P plant until the end, Al Registro of Big
Flats was there at the beginning.

Registro was already a career A&P employee in Brooklyn when he came
to the Southern Tier to help lay the groundwork for the new
Horseheads plant.

Now, 23 years after the A&P plant closed for good, Registro says
former employees still share a special bond.

"Even today, when I go shopping, I would meet some of our employees.
Naturally, I would talk and just always felt as if they were
relatives of mine," Registro said. "I knew them all. In all
instances they would say to me, 'Oh well, I've never had it so
good.'"

http://www.stargazettenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
AID=/20051227/NEWS01/512270313


Demolition saddens former A&P manager
December 27, 2005

Editor's note: Al Registro, 89, of Big Flats, worked for the Great
Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. for 43 years and retired in February
1982, only months before the A&P Horseheads plant closed. Registro
was the first A&P official on-site when the new facility was being
planned in the early 1960s, and spent the rest of his career there.
He spoke to Star-Gazette reporter Jeff Murray about the experience.

"In Brooklyn, I was personnel manager. I started working in the
plant in the summer months of college. After my plant closed in
Brooklyn, the company sent me to Terre Haute, Ind. I was working
with a fellow, Gene Bowe. He was personnel director. He and I came
up here to make this survey of different companies, so we'd keep in
mind the pay and the benefits companies had. We had a little office
in Horseheads that the company put us in on Lackawanna Avenue, right
off the old Route 17 highway. We had a big sign that said relocation
office.

"I was personnel manager. My job was to be in charge of the
relocation process of our plant employees that were coming from
plants that were closing. When they opened up the plant here, I was
in the personnel office. I was a personnel manager to start. From
there, when OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
came in, the company made me safety manager and my job was worrying
about OSHA. I was also in charge of security at the plant.

"When we started, we had a wonderful operation, period. We had
platforms that we would welcome people in. They could look down on
the operations. It was a terrific operation.

"I knew that plant, I used to walk through that plant about three
times a week, every part of it. When we had OSHA inspections, we did
very, very well. Now, that old building (the former A&P plant), that
was like my life to me. When I saw that part of the building knocked
down, it took a lot out of me."

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What would you like to see A&P offer as a collectible for the 150th Anniversary
of our company?


   o Coke Bottles
   o Matches
   o Commemorative Tin
   o Yukon Club Soda Limited Edition Bottle
   o A&P Issued Truck
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   o Nothing


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The following APTEAHISTORY poll is now closed.  Here are the
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POLL QUESTION: Who do you think has a richer history
than A&P?

CHOICES AND RESULTS
- Winn Dixie, 0 votes, 0.00%
- Albertson's, 0 votes, 0.00%
- Safeway, 0 votes, 0.00%
- Kroger's, 0 votes, 0.00%
- No one, 15 votes, 100.00%



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The following APTEAHISTORY poll is now closed.  Here are the
final results:


POLL QUESTION: Do you believe that A&P employees, as
a majority, have knowledge of the
history of A&P overall?

CHOICES AND RESULTS
- Yes, 1 votes, 9.09%
- No, 9 votes, 81.82%
- Not Sure, 1 votes, 9.09%



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Follow the link below to a site with Radio Spot Ads from WPGC near
Washington DC, there is one for the A&P Big Red Team...


http://www.amandfmmorningside.com/wpgc_spots_table.html#1976

John F.

I just wanted to welcome everyone who has joined recently. If there is
anything you would like to know, or any information you would like to
share, feel free. The only rule here is that SPAM is what we sell in
our stores, not what we place on our website.

Enjoy.

Thank you for the warm welcome. I would like to know if the WEO tshirts and WEO
mugs are still available.

Also I know that the A&P logo has changed throughout the history of the company
as well as so many slogans. It would be great to review the changes of the logo
as well as those of the other chains in the A&P family of supermarkets.

The new slogan I recently saw was "Fresh Thinking Since 1859".  I think this is
a terrific slogan.

Also the recent addition of French Vanilla flavored coffee to the Eight O'Clock
coffee family is very welcomed. Does anyone think that the shade of yellow is
similiar to that used on Red Circle coffee bags?

Thanks again for having this forum for our store, America's original fresh
grocer.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: apteahistory <apteahistory@...>
> To: APTEAHISTORY@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [APTEAHISTORY] Hi To All New Members
> Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 23:38:53 -0000
>
>
> I just wanted to welcome everyone who has joined recently. If there is
> anything you would like to know, or any information you would like to
> share, feel free. The only rule here is that SPAM is what we sell in
> our stores, not what we place on our website.
>
> Enjoy.

>


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Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number.  -Lycos Yellow Pages

http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC\
=lycos10

Hi. I moved the link for Farmer Jack into the A&P Family of Companies
Folder.

I am reposting this email in case anyone didn't receive it and would
like to attend the next APHS Quarterly Meeting. I also posted it on
the Group's calendar.
*******************

So that everyone can mark their calendars now, I just want to let
everyone know that the next meeting of the A&P Historical Society will
occur on Monday, May 22nd at 5 PM at the Montvale Headquarters.  More
information to follow.

Craig J. Grybowski
Project Manager - A&P Location Research Department
President - A&P Historical Society
2 Paragon Drive
Montvale, NJ  07645

For those of us not in attendance at the meeting, we would very much
appreciate a summary.

Also for those of you who are GAP shareholders, the latest annual
report has been sent out.  It is a very thorough report and has a
lot of financial and corporate details of the last several years.

The series of logos on the back cover make an interesting comparison
of how the logo has evolved since 1859. And I particularly like the
new corporate slogan, "Fresh Thinking Since 1859"

Some exciting times lay ahead for all APTEA fans.



--- In APTEAHISTORY@yahoogroups.com, "apteahistory"
<apteahistory@...> wrote:
>
> I am reposting this email in case anyone didn't receive it and
would
> like to attend the next APHS Quarterly Meeting. I also posted it
on
> the Group's calendar.
> *******************
>
> So that everyone can mark their calendars now, I just want to let
> everyone know that the next meeting of the A&P Historical Society
will
> occur on Monday, May 22nd at 5 PM at the Montvale Headquarters.
More
> information to follow.
>
> Craig J. Grybowski
> Project Manager - A&P Location Research Department
> President - A&P Historical Society
> 2 Paragon Drive
> Montvale, NJ  07645
>

Does anyone have any information about A&P from when they were in
Pittsburgh?

I remember them from when I was growing up, but don't know too much
beyond that.  One store left in my area, now converted to a family
health center,  was from the 1950's.  Another, in a shopping plaza is
still open as a grocery store.  I've seen store pics on other sites,
but am surprised that none of the stores here looked like any stores
I've seen on line---no colonials here.  I don't know if they used a
different style achitecture in PGH than in other parts of the country.

Thanks

Rob

In response to the question regarding stores in Pittsburgh, this is
what the APHS archives has.   This list is by no means complete, just
what we have.  - Craig

1 Allegheny Center         1966-1979
2571-83 Wenzel Ave.        1951-1979
3440 Forbes Ave.           1942-1979
Penn Circle North          1957-1979
1703 Carson St.            1880s
34 Fifth Ave.            1880s
4314 Butler St. 1          1880s
4818 Second Avenue         1920s
6127 Penn Ave.            1880s
710 Warrington Ave.        1910s
Jefferson & Chartiers Sts. 1920s