tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post3558228239958050316..comments2024-03-14T13:27:04.152-04:00Comments on Another Old Movie Blog: The "Super" MarketJacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-26076052723634847402009-04-24T07:22:00.000-04:002009-04-24T07:22:00.000-04:00This is great stuff, Laura. These are the kind of...This is great stuff, Laura. These are the kind of stories I love. Funny that you should run into a grocery store scene in the next movie you saw. We'll probably all be noticing more of them now. <br /><br />That "Pleasant Family Shopping" site is really something. It's so much fun. How funny that so many of us, who have never met, are connected by the same memories. <br /><br />Van de Kamp's Molasses Cookies. Oh, yeah.Jacqueline T. Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-39896657744966697952009-04-24T01:39:00.000-04:002009-04-24T01:39:00.000-04:00Funny thing, I was recording WHO'S BEEN SLEEPING I...Funny thing, I was recording WHO'S BEEN SLEEPING IN MY BED? with Dean Martin earlier tonight, and the first sequence is Dean cutting the ribbon on a new grocery store! It was so "California in the '60s," including the little Van De Kamp's Dutch windmill sign on the side of the grocery building. I was hoping that he'd go inside, but no such luck. :)<br /><br />The great site you linked, Pleasant Family Shopping, has a photo of a Safeway with a <A HREF="http://pleasantfamilyshopping.blogspot.com/2007/09/safeways-windmill.html" REL="nofollow">windmill</A> sign, but the windmill seems bigger than most I remember. (A comment there indicates they varied in size.) As the blog states, these windmill signs were a fixture on all So. CA grocery stores until sometime in the '70s.<br /><br />My maternal grandfather (not the grocery store owner, who was my dad's dad, but the doctor with the recording unit I referenced in another recent post) always had a stash of Van De Kamp's Molasses Cookies in the cookie jar. A fond memory.<br /><br />Thanks for starting me on this trip down memory lane!<br /><br />Best wishes,<br />LauraLaurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09626109831176745957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-15657236500723158662009-04-23T16:36:00.000-04:002009-04-23T16:36:00.000-04:00Thanks so much for your comments, Sebina, John and...Thanks so much for your comments, Sebina, John and Laura. I especially appreciate your info on the markets of Bellows Falls, VT, and southern CA. I think you're right, Laura, we are more apt to see drugstores in the old movies than grocery stores. I'm going to be on the lookout for the stores in those movies you mentioned.<br /><br />And I agree, John, where would we be without Mighty Mouse? (I especially love the later ones that are opera/mellerdramer parodies and he's a tenor.)Jacqueline T. Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-66794475210728821332009-04-23T16:13:00.000-04:002009-04-23T16:13:00.000-04:00I love this, especially as my grandfather owned a ...I love this, especially as my grandfather owned a small chain of grocery stores in Southern California a few decades back. (He was the head of the CA Grocers Association at one point...I would guess in the early '60s.)<br /><br />When I see a market or drugstore in a movie I always find myself looking around trying to absorb all the interesting details, reading the labels on the products, and so on. (There's an interesting little military base market in '53's SABRE JET, and TENSION with Audrey Totter has a great drugstore...drugstores seem a lot more common than supermarkets, as I can think of numerous films featuring drugstores, and I'm sure you can, too.) <br /><br />I have mixed feelings about the TV show MAD MEN but one of the things I have liked was a peek at a '60s grocery store which reminded me of my earliest childhood days.<br /><br />Best wishes,<br />LauraLaurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09626109831176745957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-55548257061819224672009-04-23T16:08:00.000-04:002009-04-23T16:08:00.000-04:00I second Raquelle-- great post. Love the way you ...I second Raquelle-- great post. Love the way you can weave cultural history into your film posts-- really well done. Some of my earliest memories involve the Super Duper & the A&P in Bellows Falls, VT. They both gave stamps, which my mom collected diligently.<br /><br />Mighty Mouse is always welcome!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15687192784861682991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-27104613918505408252009-04-23T12:44:00.000-04:002009-04-23T12:44:00.000-04:00I didn't know this stuff, so what a great read :)I didn't know this stuff, so what a great read :)Classic Maidenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06452165665779363139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-50005631453589502022009-04-23T12:43:00.000-04:002009-04-23T12:43:00.000-04:00Hi, Raquelle, thanks for your input. I remember t...Hi, Raquelle, thanks for your input. I remember those scenes you mention. By the late 1960s we can see the supermarket has shed its place as an icon of a bold new world, and has become a normal, everyday place to go. I wonder if anybody else can come up with some supermarket scenes. I'm not sure there were many.Jacqueline T. Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-58746337265522395622009-04-23T10:18:00.000-04:002009-04-23T10:18:00.000-04:00Great post! I always love seeing Supermarkets in f...Great post! I always love seeing Supermarkets in films. I remember some hilarious scenes in Yours, Mine and Ours (1969). Plus I love the scene in A Patch of Blue (1965) when Sidney Poitier's character takes a neglected blind woman on her first shopping trip to a supermarket.<br /><br />I also never thought of why the word "super" had been added. Very interesting.Raquel Stecherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02687110907002450794noreply@blogger.com