Re: [CBQ] team track - groceries

[STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>]

Gerald
Speaking of Bananas Where was the Banana House in the Twin Cities??  It was 
large enough to shove the reefers inside  6-8 capacity and shut out the winter 
weather to be unloaded.
Steve in SC





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From: Gerald Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com>
To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, January 10, 2011 1:30:51 PM
Subject: RE: [CBQ] team track - groceries

  

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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