Wagons in vintage Street scenes

9/7/72
Temple Square and North Temple, 1972 by CountyLemonade, on Flickr

 

They probably should have cooked something fresh by now!

 

I'm addicted to this thread like a crackhead needing his next fix.....

One thing I've noticed that has me confused if not a little sad is I don't think I have yet to see a Wal Mart in the back ground of any of these pics. Aren't they supposed to have been around since the late '60's or so?

40-50 years forward from now people looking at pics of how we got around before teletransportors will be thinking 'gee, they sure had a lot of Wal Marts back then'......

Part of the thrill of going on a road trip was to see different things. Now, aside from the countryside, everything is basically the same.

*sigh*

Carry on.......

 

I didn't go inside my first Wal-Mart until some time in the early 90's.... They didn't get to the left coast until then.

 

Good one. The last set of commercials (and I'll check YouTube to see if any are on there) usually featured a good-looking chick and a salmon moving toward and touching her arm, to which she responds by slapping it across the head and declaring, "Fresh!"

Here's one from my high school days. And remember: "Keep Clam!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvR9FeVoH9I

 

Murray, Utah


Labeled on the dubba-dubba-dubba as a 'Wal-Mart Parking Lot', but seeing as how is says 'U.S. Navy Commissary Store', I don't think so.......

 

The building itself looks a lot like the commissary at Cameron Station, a long gone Army base in Alexandria, Virginia where my mother shopped for groceries when I was a kid. My older brother's first job was loading groceries into cars there.
I remember it as a very busy store. In the middle of some aisles there were parking spaces for the shopping carts to keep people from blocking the aisles while they picked the freshest produce or the best cuts of meat. There were always long lines at the registers and there were always at least 8 to 10 registers open (probably more). They would bag your groceries and load the bags into plastic bins. The plastic bins would then go on a conveyer belt. You got the numbers for the bins were directed to take your car to a particular lane. You would then go get your car and get in one of four lines to where the conveyer belts would take the bins. I believe each lane was color coded to the bins your bag of groceries would be in. My brother's job was to get the bin numbers from the driver of a car, retrieve their bins of groceries and load the bags into the cars. One of my cousins was working there doing the same thing at the time. It wasn't a bad job for a high school kid I guess.

 

10/1/71
book10032 Haro Street View, West End, Vancouver 1971 by CanadaGood, on Flickr

 

Not Wal Mart


1. Bridge Plaza Shopping Center. Postcard c. 1950s?

 

5/65 - Boston
050165 12 by nick dewolf photo archive, on Flickr