Friday Video: Food Shopping Tips for 1950
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| Interior, Marden-Abbott Store Strawbery Banke Museum |
Today's video called to me because I grew up living behind the shop, that is to say, behind a small Mom and Pop store. In those days, what today we�d call a convenience store was "the corner store," which Worcesterites called a spa�and no, I have no idea why.
The main articles on offer at our place were canned goods, bread, milk, soda, cigarettes, and penny candy�and then, a few years after the store opened, there was a snack bar, too, which became very popular. In any case, neither our shop nor even the supermarkets, as they were then, were anything like today's mega-super-duper-supermarkets. A tangerine was about as exotic as things got in the produce aisle.
Though my parents set up shop a decade or so later than today�s video, we girls learned these same shopping principles, at home and in Home Economics classes. No, the boys weren�t taught, although, if the video offers a clue, they could have used the lessons.
Image: Interior of Marden-Abbott Store (WWII era) at Strawbery Bank Museum, courtesy me.
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