The Market Report

Concluding our former ACME week with the store in the header logo. And I know, it's hard to call this a former ACME. But hey, I can bend the rules a little bit. This store at 281 Ferry St started out as a Pathmark in the mid- to late-90s as a replacement for the older location next door at 269 Ferry St. It closed in November of 2015 and reopened as an ACME on November 7, 2015. I visited and photographed the ACME on June 5, 2016 and it closed almost exactly a year later on June 16, 2017. In September of 2018, local chain Seabra Foods announced they would open a flagship store in the building. It joins three Seabra Foods and two unrelated Seabra's Market stores in the Ironbound, the historically Portuguese section of Newark. (Information from Josh Austin and Jersey Digs .) Easily recognizable as a former Pathmark! Standard Pathmark layout, too: produce in the center of the store. Deli/seafood in an island to the left when you enter (shown straight ahead here), pha...

Probably the two most common reuses for 1950s supermarkets are dollar stores and pharmacies. We saw an example of the former yesterday, and we'll see another example today. ACME tower sign still intact, with a clear and readable Dollar General sign. Acme Style has an excellent and in-depth post on this store, which you can read here . (I'm very excited that I only overlap with Acme Style on two posts of the five this week!) My photos are from December 2017. Not hard to picture this as a supermarket, as Acme Style points out. The location is at 2010 John F. Kennedy Blvd, Union City, just about six blocks north of the North Bergen Food Bazaar . In our Hudson County group , our southernmost point was about fifteen blocks north of this store.

Heading back up to Troy, PA for today's Snapshot. We previously took a quick look at the Tops Friendly Markets in Troy earlier this month. Now we're going to see a store that is currently a Dollar Tree, but was previously a Dollar General and presumably a Bi-Lo and before that, an Insalaco's. Before that it was definitely an ACME! This beautifully preserved pitched-roof store, when it was a Dollar General, was actually in much worse condition. Dollar Tree fixed it up pretty nicely. We can see clearer in the Google street view that it's an early model pitched-roof store... ...since it has the beams coming out at an angle on the side walls. For a complete tour of a supermarket of the same model, check out the Confluence Foodmart in Confluence, PA. This former ACME is located at 38 Elmira St, Troy, PA.

Get ready, supermarket enthusiasts. Hold onto your hats and buckle up. We're going up to the city of Canandaigua, NY, which is at the northern tip of Canandaigua Lake. ( Bath is maybe half an hour south of the southern tip.) Are you ready? Put your safety goggles on and... ...enjoy. Yes, that is a fully-restored 1940s ACME. It's not Photoshopped. It's not your imagination. There's a story behind this. The building certainly hasn't looked like this since the 1940s. It had received a facade update at some point, for some later tenant. In the process of renovation in 2016, property owner Andrew Guffey uncovered the original facade, which was porcelain. Interestingly, the Acme Markets sign was not painted on, but porcelain as well. After a brief conflict with the Canandaigua City Planning Commission, they agreed to let Guffey keep and restore the original facade. (The sign with the year and address was added at that time, and is a new replica of...

Acme Style has covered this location (actually just shy of a year ago), but now it's my turn. I happened to stumble across this store while on vacation in the area and had no idea that I was in ACME country. Starting off with a look at the former pitched-roof store just next to the newer location. The new facade disguises the roof, but you can see it's still there in Acme Style's post. Also, let's take a second to appreciate that this mall is home to both a Dollar Tree and  a Family Dollar. The pitched-roof store likely opened in the mid- to late-1960s, with the replacement store opening around the late 1970s. Here we can see the new store beginning in front, with the older store visible to the left. We can also see a hint of an angled roof behind the Dollar Tree facade. The replacement ACME probably, as Acme Style points out, closed in 1994 before a sale to Penn Traffic. (In 1979, it had been switched to the Pennsylvania division, not as strange a choice...