Groceteria
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Supermarket and retail history, photos, commercial archaeology, random pop culture, architecture, and urban history. Librarian by day. https://groceteria.com/ 🇺🇸🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏴☠️
UPDATES: Altadena and Pasadena, Santa Cruz and Watsonville, Salinas and Monterey, Napa Valley, Vallejo and Fairfield (I'm apparently on a California nostalgia kick).
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December 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
UPDATES: Altadena and Pasadena, Santa Cruz and Watsonville, Salinas and Monterey, Napa Valley, Vallejo and Fairfield (I'm apparently on a California nostalgia kick).
Links here: groceteria.ca/board/viewto...
Links here: groceteria.ca/board/viewto...
I'd really like to go to this, but 2500 miles is more than I want to drive after work today...
Tonight @ 7pm: The Skid Row History Museum & Archive is hosting “Hotels in Crisis: Then and Now.” www.lapovertydept.org/event/hotels...
“We’ll be viewing footage from the sixties, eighties, and today, listening and reflecting on lessons for organizing, creating and dissolving institutions..."
“We’ll be viewing footage from the sixties, eighties, and today, listening and reflecting on lessons for organizing, creating and dissolving institutions..."
December 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I'd really like to go to this, but 2500 miles is more than I want to drive after work today...
Reposted by Groceteria
On this day in 1919, thousands gathered inside Eaton’s College Street store for the unveiling of a life-size bronze statue of founder Timothy Eaton.
#OTD #OnThisDay #TorontoHistory #TimothyEaton #CanadianHistory #ROM #Toronto #Canada #jeremyhopkin
#OTD #OnThisDay #TorontoHistory #TimothyEaton #CanadianHistory #ROM #Toronto #Canada #jeremyhopkin
December 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
On this day in 1919, thousands gathered inside Eaton’s College Street store for the unveiling of a life-size bronze statue of founder Timothy Eaton.
#OTD #OnThisDay #TorontoHistory #TimothyEaton #CanadianHistory #ROM #Toronto #Canada #jeremyhopkin
#OTD #OnThisDay #TorontoHistory #TimothyEaton #CanadianHistory #ROM #Toronto #Canada #jeremyhopkin
Home from my very snow-covered trip to Southern Ontario via Fort Wayne, Buffalo, and other places. Sneak preview of what this batch of research in Fort Wayne will be providing over the next few months here: www.groceteria.com/place/the-qu...
December 8, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Home from my very snow-covered trip to Southern Ontario via Fort Wayne, Buffalo, and other places. Sneak preview of what this batch of research in Fort Wayne will be providing over the next few months here: www.groceteria.com/place/the-qu...
No other city gives me the warm fuzzies like Pittsburgh does.
December 5, 2025 at 3:25 AM
No other city gives me the warm fuzzies like Pittsburgh does.
How could anyone not want to eat here?
December 3, 2025 at 12:24 AM
How could anyone not want to eat here?
Quality time in Kitchener.
December 2, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Quality time in Kitchener.
Loblaws, Niagara Falls ON.
December 2, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Loblaws, Niagara Falls ON.
Back in the USA. Sigh...
December 2, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Back in the USA. Sigh...
I covet this yardstick...
I can't remember the last time it snowed like this before Christmas
December 1, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I covet this yardstick...
Woodstock had a lot more snow than Burlington
December 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Woodstock had a lot more snow than Burlington
For the record, walking into an antique mall in Woodstock, Ontario and running into someone you know is disorienting as hell…
November 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
For the record, walking into an antique mall in Woodstock, Ontario and running into someone you know is disorienting as hell…
Thanksgiving dinner with Russell Williams. No, I don't know who he is (or was) either, but I like his restaurant.
November 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Thanksgiving dinner with Russell Williams. No, I don't know who he is (or was) either, but I like his restaurant.
Loblaws, Concession Street, Hamilton ON.
November 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Loblaws, Concession Street, Hamilton ON.
Dominion, Upper James Street, Hamilton ON.
November 27, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Dominion, Upper James Street, Hamilton ON.
From 1971. Several segments were shot in a UK Safeway store. youtu.be/nkigs_OgIoc?...
November 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
From 1971. Several segments were shot in a UK Safeway store. youtu.be/nkigs_OgIoc?...
And Al Waxman smiled (at everyone)
On this day in 2006, the Toronto neighbourhood Kensington Market became a National Historic Site of Canada. Watch this Heritage Minute to learn how this neighbourhood helped shape Canada by providing newcomers a first stop in our country.
Heritage Minutes: Kensington Market
Enjoy these Heritage Minutes brought to you by Historica Canada! While free to view and share, these productions remain under copyright. Re-uploads or modified versions are strictly prohibited…
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November 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
And Al Waxman smiled (at everyone)
Remember those bathroom heat lamps with the mechanical timer switches you used to see in old motels? Apparently they're back, redesigned for a new era.
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Remember those bathroom heat lamps with the mechanical timer switches you used to see in old motels? Apparently they're back, redesigned for a new era.
My YouTube feed was already pretty Canada-centric, but the proportion of CanCon has gotten much higher now that I'm north of the border.
November 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
My YouTube feed was already pretty Canada-centric, but the proportion of CanCon has gotten much higher now that I'm north of the border.
Downtown Aylmer ON
November 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Downtown Aylmer ON
Unidentified, Talbot Street, Aylmer ON
November 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Unidentified, Talbot Street, Aylmer ON
Mister Rogers goes to the grocery store in 1984. For those of you who care about such things, it was located at 5901 Heckert Rd. in Bakerstown PA. youtu.be/5LHuIfucT78?...
Mr. Rogers Visits the Grocery Store
YouTube video by Ohio Teletubbies Universe
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November 26, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Mister Rogers goes to the grocery store in 1984. For those of you who care about such things, it was located at 5901 Heckert Rd. in Bakerstown PA. youtu.be/5LHuIfucT78?...