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New Orleans and St. Louis represented the last two divisions of National Supermarkets, a.k.a. National Tea, which originated in Chicago in 1899, making the chain one of the oldest in the USA. It was also one of the largest, ranking as the fifth largest in the late 1960s, only A&P, Safeway, Kroger, and Food Fair were larger. Loblaw bought the ...
F. C. Nash & Co. – Nash's (Pasadena), at one time had 5 stores in downtown locations in neighboring small cities during the 1950s and 1960s, founded in 1889 as a grocery store, became a department store in 1921, branch stores were unable to compete with larger chains opening in malls built in the late 1960s and early 1970s and had to be ...
The French Market (French: Marché français) is a market and series of commercial buildings spanning six blocks in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded as a Native American trading post predating European colonization, the market is the oldest of its kind in the United States. [ 1 ]
The origin of the firm dates to the mid-nineteenth century following the immigration of Garret Schwegmann Sr. from the Saxony region of Germany to New Orleans. After serving in the Union Army during the United States Civil War, Garret Schwegmann Sr. returned to New Orleans where he found employment at the Henke Family Grocery Store.
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Cafe Du Monde is back in operation after abruptly closing for the day on Friday. On Dec. 13, City of New Orleans officials issued a notice to the public to avoid Decatur ...
Through the 1950s and '60s, Tremé was the epicenter of civil rights struggles in New Orleans, but when many of its wealthier residents moved away, abandoning the neighborhood for the prestige of the French Quarter and other areas, inner city urban decay set in and Tremé faded into the background, referred to only as the Sixth Ward ...
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Aug. 9, 1950: Bill Brey, left, manager, and George Kuehne, are shown as they check over stocks in the new Safeway Store, at 1600 N. 25th St. (The site today is a Pollos La Pullita restaurant.)