RE: [CBQ] team track - groceries

[Gerald Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com>]

IC reefers would also be found on team tracks with bananas.  Indeed "grocers" 
and food wholsealers are commonly listed on RR 'industry' lists well in to the 
50's (and famously the Q's line to Lead/Deadwood, SD went right thru a major 
grocery store parking lot passing within a few feet of the storefront).  The 
grocery business did not significantly 'centralize til post-WWII with many 
local independents only loosely affiliated with buyer groups.  Local 
distributors would wholesale fruit, vegtables & meat to local grocers.  I'm 
sure all on the list over 50 or so can well remember when there were small 
grocers in every neighborhood (and far more hardware stores and the like).  
Indeed it was not the introduction of fluoridated water in the 50's that alone 
eased tooth decay but the decline of neighborhood grocers we could stop at 
to/from school to buy candy!  (and yo-yo's & pea shooters without parents 
eyeing us!)


Gerald   

                                          

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