Continuing the celebration of The Market Report's 10th year! Each month of 2026, I'll be posting a different special feature to celebrate my 10th year of writing this blog. Last month, we took a look at my favorite posts of 2016-2020 , and in January, we investigated the history of A&P and its other brands . This month, let's spend some more time on the past with a look at some memorabilia today along with yesterday's historical photos . Tomorrow is one more day of memorabilia! A&P This was a particularly exciting find at an antique store in Gloucester, MA. This tin was sold for $2.99 at A&P's 125th anniversary in 1984. Seeing this, it wasn't a hard decision to make this part of my own collection. The tin depicts a ca. 1912 A&P store, and I love the images around the tin. On the back, you get a look inside the store at that time. And here's some more information from the bottom of the tin. If you're interested in all things A&P, d...
Continuing the celebration of The Market Report's 10th year! Each month of 2026, I'll be posting a different special feature to celebrate my 10th year of writing this blog. Last month, we took a look at my favorite posts of 2016-2020 , and in January, we investigated the history of A&P and its other brands . This month, let's spend some more time on the past with a look at some historical photos today and memorabilia tomorrow from my own collection! Thanks to a framed picture hanging in Caldwell, NJ's wonderful Cloverleaf Tavern , we can get a look at Bloomfield Avenue in Montclair, NJ, where a streetcar rolls up the hill by a gorgeous 1950s Food Fair. It's still a supermarket, and it's a fairly small but pleasant Whole Foods . Compare the above picture to this one I took in 2016... In my travels, I've come across plenty of other historical photos posted in stores I've visited, such as the Collingswood, NJ ACME... ...as seen in the Westmont ACME ....