Crowd at A&P store re-opening,1946,super market,large crowd a block long
Title: Crowd at A&P store re-opening
Date Created/Published: 1946 Oct. 22.
Summary: Photograph shows a large crowd a block long waiting for the opening of the A&P super market.
Notes:
Associated Press photograph.
No. 17315D.
Note on verso: A crowd wait at the door of the A&P super market at Third Avenue and 163rd Street, Bronx, N.Y., as the store re-opened for business Oct. 22. A&P stores had been closed since Sept. 14 by the strike of AFL truckmen. Elated at the prospects of getting soaps, shortening, soap powders and other scarce items which had been placed on shelves in preparation for the re-opening, shoppers began to assemble at this store by 6AM, Oct. 22.
Title from item.
Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company.
Supermarkets--New York (State)--Bronx--1940-1950.
Crowds--New York (State)--New York--1940-1950.
Photographic prints--1940-1950.
Bookmark /2011648259/
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