OT As Black Friday creeps forward to Wednesday, I'm trying to renew my recolletction of what days and hours supermarkets were open in the early 50's.
I lived in Western Pa. near Youngstown, Ohio, in a city of 50,000 people, and my earliest recollection is that it was open from 9AM to
5PM, M-F, not on Sunday, and I can't remember about Saturday.What about Saturday?
Later, maybe by 1956, the store started staying open to 6. There was only one supermarket on the north side. .
Even though my father worked downtown, and we lived in a nice totally residential area, it was only 1.5 miles. So he usually either walked to work or took the bus, and he often got a ride home with a friend while he was waiting for the bus to go home. There were only two streets that went north from downtown, and one was really northwest and went from industrial almost straight to farmland.
So my mother usallly had the car and she could go shopping between 9 and 3 (I got home from school at 3:35.) but women who worked or whose husband took the car must have had a problem.
Anyone remember? Where were you in the 50's?