Piggly wiggly locations1/28/2024 ![]() ![]() Most businesses they mentioned spanned the 1930s through the 1980s. Readers sent in handwritten letters, called, posted online and emailed. I’ve split this story in two, with the second part running next Monday. That installment will include more memories in the broader Fox Cities. I read every word and appreciated the lengthy letters and emails. But even with two installments, I apologize that I’m not able to include them all. Mary Lou Peerenboom’s family shopped at the A&P and National Tea Company stores on College Avenue in downtown Appleton. “The one thing I most remember about the A&P is that I would go with my mother to get 8 O’Clock Coffee, and how good it smelled as she ground it into that red bag.” “I had such a good staff,” he reminisced. “Those were the best years in my working career.” The most mentioned supermarkets were Krambo, Eiting’s, Food Queen, Austin’s, Park 'n' Market, past Piggly Wiggly locations, IGA, A&P near the Viking Theater in downtown Appleton, multiple Red Owl stores and Gordy’s Food Fair.Ĭurt Weinaug was the longtime manager of Piggly Wiggly by Goodland Field, now the site of Goodwill. Many readers remembered Red Owl stores, which had multiple locations in the Fox Cities. ![]() When Red Owl opened on Wisconsin Avenue in 1955, “I put my newborn’s name in the grand opening raffle,” said Joann O’Neil. She still thinks of that when she passes the site, now a CVS. Jim Tews, then 16, was hired as a “courtesy boy” to bag and carry groceries at that Red Owl. He remembers his uniform included a bow tie. Prices were marked with a rubber stamp on groceries, he said, and cashiers manually punched prices into the register. If prices changed, the old price was removed with polish remover.ĭavid Van Ryzin was hired as a stock boy at Krambo on Wisconsin Avenue in 1952 for 50 cents an hour. “I met my wife there and we were married for 44 years,” he said. ![]() Krambo had a number of locations, and Ryan J. Fish remembered the Valley Fair branch because of its “great comic book selection." He read while his mom shopped. Many downtown grocery stores in the 1940s and early 1950s were “put out of business with the advent of the Krambo store on the corner of College and Richmond, where the Walgreen's store is now," remembered Noel Ford. Readers all had favorite mom-and-pop markets. ![]()
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