Photo from the Grand Union Company Annual Report 1956
Graphic from the Grand Union Company
An early -and substantially Mid-Century Modern- Grand Way store.
Drawing from the Grand Union Company
The Grand Way enterprise peaked in 1966, when there were thirty-one operational stores. The tide had begun to turn by 1972, when the store count had dropped to twenty-three. By 1979, remaining stores held going out of business sales.
Graphic from the Grand Union Company
Enterprise Stores originated in Massachusetts in 1912. The store seen above, located in Everett, Massachusetts, had a grand-re-opening in the early 1950s. The Enterprise chain was renamed "J.M. Fields" in 1955. It was acquired by Philadelphia's Food Fair Stores in August 1961. At the height of the endeavor -in the mid-1960s- there were seventy-nine stores in ten Atlantic Seaboard states.
Graphic from Food Fair Stores, Incorporated
Photo from Food Fair Stores, Incorporated Annual Report 1965
Graphic from Food Fair Stores, Incorporated
The Field's store included a Food Center.
Photo from https://www.floridamemory.com / Harvey Eugene Slade
There was also had a Pet Shop.
Photo from https://www.floridamemory.com / Harvey Eugene Slade
Two full-color snapshots show a latter-day J. M. Fields store. Above, we see a Men's Wear department.
Photo from Food Fair Stores, Incorporated Annual Report 1968
Photo from Food Fair Stores, Incorporated Annual Report 1968
Treasure Island and The Treasury stores were a discount division of New York City's J.C. Penney Company.
Graphic from the J.C. Penney Company
"Under the squiggly roof," as the adverts used to say. The Treasure Island -The Treasury chain started off in Wisconsin and spread to Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Texas and California. The final stores were shuttered in mid-1981.
Graphic from the J.C. Penney Company
Indy's Ayr-way chain debuted, with four Greater Indianapolis stores, in the fall of 1961.
Photo from the Indianapolis Historical Society
Graphic from Ayr-way Stores, Incorporated
