Grocery Stores and Supermarkets

Big Bear was a supermarket chain that operated in Central Ohio and West Virginia. Not to be confused with the chain of the same name in San Diego. The first Big Bear opened in 1933 on West Lane Avenue in Columbus near the campus...

Jungle Jim's was an iconic Central Florida restaurant with locations in downtown Orlando in the Church Street Station, on 535 near I-4, and Merritt Island on the Space Coast. It opened in the late 1980s and closed in the early 2000s. The restaurant was...

Farmer Jack was a supermarket chain based in Detroit from 1924 until 2007. It's iconic radio commercials, heard on stations such as CKLW, announced the store's weekly deals as "Farmer Jack savings time." Popular throughout the second half of the 20th century, the chain...

Jungle Jim's was an iconic Central Florida restaurant with locations in downtown Orlando in the Church Street Station, on 535 near I-4, and Merritt Island on the Space Coast. It opened in the late 1980s and closed in the early 2000s. The restaurant was...

A fondly remembered supermarket chain in Cleveland, the origin of Pick-N-Pay can be traced to 1928 and the opening Edward Silverberg's Cleveland Heights dairy store. In 1938, he opened a supermarket on E. 185th Street which he called Pick-N-Pay. In 1940, he changed the...

Weingarten's was a supermarket chain based in Houston. While most of its locations were in the greater Houston area, it had locations in San Antonio, Austin, Shreveport, Louisiana, and Memphis, Tennessee. The parent company sold the grocery stores to concentrate on its commercial real...

Much like Jungle Jim's down the road in Fairfield, Ohio, Woody's started as a roadside fruit and vegetable stand. Woodrow “Woody” Bowman started it all in 1944 on a half acre of land on the old Dixie Highway. Woody’s Market closed in 1999, and Bowman died...

Big Bear was a supermarket chain that operated in San Diego until 1994, when it was sold to Albertson's. The chain was not related to Big Bear in Columbus.

Fisher Foods, later known as Fazio's, was a supermarket chain based in Cleveland, Ohio and they are the food people.

Gooding's was a small supermarket chain in Central Florida. It was founded in 1964 in Maitland. The chain introduced several innovations and??is credited with introducing 24-hour shopping, in-store bakeries, and in-store delis to Central Florida. Its most famous location was in the Crossroads of...

Before H-E-B, San Antonio grocery shopped at Handy Andy supermarket. Founded by the Becker family in 1927, they created a store where you could "save where shopping is a pleasure." OS16260

The Dixie Drive-In Theatre opened in 1955 in Louisville's Shively neighborhood. Located at 4915 Dixie Hwy., it closed in 1967. The site was later a K-Mart and is currently a large grocery store.

Sid and Eleanor Maurer opened the Atlas Supermarket at the corner of North College Avenue and 54th Street in 1947. It closed in 2002 after 55 years in business. Fun Fact: Atlas Supermarket was where television star David Letterman worked as a stock boy...

A Cincinnati tradition, don't forget to see the Elvis??Lion performing LIVE at Jungle Jim's! Get this official Jungle Jim's International Market tee from Old School Shirts.