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Waldbaum's was a supermarket chain with stores in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx; and in Nassau, Suffolk counties and Upstate New York.
The Waldbaum's Supermarket Fire was a major fire on August 2, 1978, in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York City, United States, that killed six FDNY firefighters. The Waldbaum's store at 2892 Ocean Avenue was undergoing extensive renovations, but was open for customers when the fire broke out.
Julia Leffel was born in Manhattan and raised in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.She was the third of six children. Her parents were Anna and Harry Leffel. [1] She married Israel (aka Izzy) Waldbaum when she was 21, and he was 28.
Waldbaum was a Jewish immigrant to the United States born in a village called Cholojow in what was then Austria.Cholojow was a small town in the county of Radziechow at the edge of Galicia (Central Europe), in Austria.
Hawley Lane Mall opened in 1971 with two anchor stores, Caldor (featuring a two-story design and belt escalators) and a Waldbaum's supermarket. Other, smaller stores such as B. Dalton booksellers and Hawley Lane Shoes have also called the mall home.
Grand Union Supermarkets, later known as Grand Union Family Markets and often referred to simply as Grand Union, [1] is an American chain of grocery stores that does business in upstate New York and Vermont, and used to do business throughout most of the northeastern United States.
Charles Gristede and his brother Diedrich came to the United States from Germany in 1888, found work in grocery stores, and in 1891 opened a tiny gaslit store at 42nd Street and Second Avenue in Manhattan.
During the 1970s and '80s, Key Food was connected to a trucking firm that committed $10 million worth of tax fraud. [4] [5] [6]In 1984, LAMM Food Corporation of Port Washington, New York – an affiliate that operated four Key Food stores at the time – was among three chains charged with price fixing for conspiring to stop redeeming discount coupons at double and triple their face value in ...