This video popped up in my YouTube feed. It is a ten minute video about the behind the scenes of a supermarket and was done in 1958. I am guessing it was some sort of job information video or something. It is kind of fun to watch. For those who watch, note how much more preparation needed to be done back then before the fresh items go out on the sales floor. Oh, and little Johnny should have been squashed about ten different times.
Supermarket Operations in 1958
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hawkdon
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Boy oh boy what memories this brings back!!!! I worked in one of only two supermarkets in the small Indiana farm town I was
raised in...worked for about 4 yrs till I graduated from high school and went into navy....and i used to burn myself regularly
with thos dang hot irons they use on cellophane LOL!!!!
raised in...worked for about 4 yrs till I graduated from high school and went into navy....and i used to burn myself regularly
with thos dang hot irons they use on cellophane LOL!!!!
Tish
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That is really cool, Mark.
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for sharing.
In our next exciting episode, little Johnny falls into a breakfast foods display, and becomes a cereal killer!
I can well remember how hot markets of those days were in summer; no air conditioning back then! There were just big floor stand fans that pushed the warm, soupy air around in my mother’s “Grand Union” store. Today, the AC is so cranked up in supermarkets that I see some older shoppers wearing coats…
I can well remember how hot markets of those days were in summer; no air conditioning back then! There were just big floor stand fans that pushed the warm, soupy air around in my mother’s “Grand Union” store. Today, the AC is so cranked up in supermarkets that I see some older shoppers wearing coats…
Aunt Bea
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This thread reminded me of the handpainted signs that changed every week with the specials.
Pappy
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Fun film to watch. I worked in a supermarket for several years in the fifties. We never wore a doctors coat, just a white apron. Was a produce man, cashier, stock boy and several other jobs.
That's how little Johnny could learn a trade first hand, and know how to make an honest wage.
Notice at minute 6, the great shots of meat with all the healthy (we know now) FAT still on it when it is sold.
"Obesity" came later, when healthy meat FAT was removed from diets, and sinthetic vegetable oils added to most peoples diets.
jujube
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I worked in the offices of a grocery supplier in the 60's doing grocery ads back when "cut-and-paste" meant exactly that.
I had to produce a packet of 20-30 camera-ready advertisements every week for the weekly specials that went to about 120 IGA Stores (remember those?) so that they could decide on the specials and give the ads to their local newspapers for the Thursday edition.
I had a bunch of big clip-art books, two special typewriters that had two sizes of BIG type, a pair of big scissors and a pot of glue. When the pages were ready, it was off to the basement to make printing plates and run them on the large bulky Chief printing press.
It was a hard job but I loved being creative. I'm still a kid at heart and what kid doesn't like pasting things?
I do prefer today's "cut-and-paste" better.....
I had to produce a packet of 20-30 camera-ready advertisements every week for the weekly specials that went to about 120 IGA Stores (remember those?) so that they could decide on the specials and give the ads to their local newspapers for the Thursday edition.
I had a bunch of big clip-art books, two special typewriters that had two sizes of BIG type, a pair of big scissors and a pot of glue. When the pages were ready, it was off to the basement to make printing plates and run them on the large bulky Chief printing press.
It was a hard job but I loved being creative. I'm still a kid at heart and what kid doesn't like pasting things?
I do prefer today's "cut-and-paste" better.....