Rabbit Holes

For the first time in months, I uploaded a photo of mine to Pinterest.  While on the site, I saw someone else's upload, and it had to do with a Chevrolet dealer in Allentown.  An hour later...

When I moved to the area in 1987, there was an appliance dealer whose building had obviously been an auto showroom in years past.  The Pinterest pin provided more detail, and what with one thing and another, I learned that the used car lot on the southwest corner is still a used car lot today, only under another dealer name.  The showroom/appliance store on the southeast corner was torn down in 2006 and a bank erected on the site.  The Esso station on the northwest corner became an Exxon, then a Hess, and today is a Speedway gas/convenience store.  The diner on the northeast corner is still a diner, although last time I drove by, it appeared to have gone out of business.

Then there was the 1971 purchase of a former A&P store a little south of the corners described above.  The A&P had been there for something like 25 years, but it was a small neighborhood grocery store, not a large supermarket, so it didn't fit in the company's plans.  A newspaper ad from the following year, found on WikiMedia, showed the rebranded building.  Then a look at Google street view from May 2008 showed the same building, which now housed a restaurant, but still had the Centennial peak on its roof.  However, in a 2011 photo of the building, it had been remodeled and the peak removed.  As of today, the same restaurant was open in the building, as it had been in 2008, but the outside had been landscaped and looked much nicer than before.  

That's where I stopped with the former Allentown A&P and looked at the Pleasant Family Shopping graphics that showed a newspaper ad for a grand opening of a Centennial A&P in Sandusky, Ohio.  I didn't dig as hard here, settling for learning that the building that opened in 1960 had been replaced by a huge Kroger Marketplace.  Enough for tonight.  That was interesting.