The Market Report

Lingle's Neighborhood Market Owner: Bill and Marie Lingle Opened:  2003 Cooperative:  none Location:  15 W Brimmer Ave, Watsontown, PA Photographed:  August 19, 2022 There's quite a lot going on at this unassuming riverside Lingle's Neighborhood Market! From the front, this 16,000 square foot store looks like an average small-town independent supermarket. But actually the building has a long history as a grocery store, which some might be able to guess from this parking-lot sign... It's not the clearest clue, but it is a reminder that this store started out as an ACME. In fact, ACME started its time in Watsontown with a store at 122 Main St (now demolished) in 1939, which later moved to this pitched-roof building at 15 W Brimmer Ave in 1967 just a block away. Like so many other ACMEs in these northern Pennsylvania small towns, the store stayed around until 1995 when it was sold to Penn Traffic's Bi-Lo Foods chain. It appears there may have been some franchise agree...

Original Tenant:  ACME Markets Address:  25059 US-11, Hallstead, PA Opened:  late 1960s Closed:  1994 Later Tenants:  Bi-Lo > Big M Photographed:  August 2020 Check out that pitched-roof! This bonus store, located just south of Binghamton, NY 2 miles south of the NY-PA border. This store has been covered extensively over on Acme Style, so I won't go too much into detail. The only difference we really notice is that the sign has been removed. And for reference... this is the picture, snapped from the interstate, from which I cropped the above image... This rounds out our Finger Lakes-Southern Tier group, but there's more fun! Head over to The Market Report tomorrow to check out our Streetside Sights & Scenes feature, for photos of the region that aren't supermarkets! And then we're on to the last group in New York state.