Most people don't think much about their grocery store: You buy what you need, you use it up, you go back and buy more.
But David Gwynn spends a lot of time thinking about grocery stores. The Winston-Salem, N.C. native is the obsessive archivist behind Groceteria.com, a blog devoted to American supermarkets from the 1920s to the 1980s.
Winn-Dixie, Harris Teeter, Piggly Wiggly -- you name it, Groceteria.com has a loving tribute to it, and while we enjoy Gwynn's highly-informed historical/architectural/sociological (and often witty) commentary, it's his massive collection of original supermarket graphics, from postcards and photos to signs and circulars, that keeps us clicking.
written on Wednesday Jul 25, 2007
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