There was a tiny, rather squalid Acme at 19th & Spruce
(?) and a Penn Fruit at 21st & Market (? long gone) in
those days, neither with any parking; people in Greater
Center City east of Broad with cars took the bridge to Camden
until the A&P went up at 5th & Pine. There were
plenty of department stores downtown, but they didn't sell
tires, paint, wrenches. People in the Great Northeast (aka
Roosevelt Blvd and beyond) didn't consider themselves part of
the city except when it suited them, and the rest of the city
reciprocated.
I saw the Sears imploded on TV, but I
don't think I was ever in it.
Is that Camden Sears still sitting
there vacant, staring?
Joy, boring the vast majority of the list
>
> (Camden--there's a place that's
> > really gritty: poorest city in the country, the
residents try to burn it
> > down every Halloween, gateway to the Garden
State; it used to have the
> > closest supermarket and Sears for people in
Philly, but the stores were
> shut
> > down, still empty 20 years later the last I
looked.)
>
> Joy,
> You're talking about for people who live along the
Delaware around 4th
St,
> maybe, but there were plenty of supermarkets closer
to most Philly
> residents. There was still a big Sears on Roosevelt
Blvd into the 80's.
> Mark
>
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