OT: Does anyone remember the store Grant's?

[hoquat63]

Saturday afternoon would hop on the #11 bus from the Port and get off on Broad St. by the train station. Go across the street and browse AlWilk's Records. Walk down Broad st. past Woolworth's with Vogel's Records across the street. Keep walking past Grant's with the New and the Regent across the street down to the corner with the Courthouse and the Library. Turn left with Kokler's Toys on the right and Solomon's Sports across the street. Jump on the #24 bus to go back to the Port.
Simple times.

I remember Solomon’s - somewhere I think I still have a miniature bat stamped with Solomon’s name. Probably where my brothers Del Enid and my Stan Musial gloves came from. Don’t remember the name of the record store but I do rennet going with my mom to but 78’s at some store in Elizabeth.
Also rennet on Route 27 in Linden there was a farm with cows. Lampert’s Dairy - sold great ice cream in their store.

 

[RU-Kidding]

Does anyone remember the store Grant's or Grant's City? Where were they located in NJ? I have a stove that says purchased at Grant's City, but I don't remember Grant's City. Also, what was the Kmart store on Easton Avenue before it was Kmart?

There was a Grants in Clark off the traffic circle at exit 135 of the GSP. My sister worked in the record department there in the late 60s and received an employee discount on records that she still has till this day. I believe that location then became a Bradlees and now a Target.

 

[RU-Kidding]

I remember Solomon’s - somewhere I think I still have a miniature bat stamped with Solomon’s name. Probably where my brothers Del Enid and my Stan Musial gloves came from. Don’t remember the name of the record store but I do rennet going with my mom to but 78’s at some store in Elizabeth.
Also rennet on Route 27 in Linden there was a farm with cows. Lampert’s Dairy - sold great ice cream in their store.

Anyone remember Mo Levy's shoe store in Elizabeth. We use to get significantly discounted "irregular" converse sneakers there that were structurely sound but may have had a minor imperfection or two.

Solomons and Ross sports provided gear to many high Schools in Union County including sports letter jackets and sweaters back in the day.

 

[Colbert17!]

Anyone remember Mo Levy's shoe store in Elizabeth. We use to get significantly discounted "irregular" converse sneakers there that were structurely sound but may have had a minor imperfection or two.

Solomons and Ross sports provided gear to many high Schools in Union County including sports letter jackets and sweaters back in the day.

I grew up about 4 blocks from Mo Levy's which was on First St. The #30 bus use to run between the Port and uptown. Around the corner at the base of E. Jersey St. was a ferry that went between Staten Island and Elizabeth. When I was a little kid my dad would give me some change and i'd ride that boat back and forth all day.

 

[DHajekRC84]

The fact that Kmart could run anyone out of business speaks volumes

"Attention Kmart Shoppers"...there are actually two pretty good ones..well stocked and well run and very clean. One in Hamilton and one in Doylestown, Pa. I was shocked at how decent these two stores were.

 

[ru66]

Wt Grant's and Woolworths in good old union city on bergenline ave

 

[beaced_rivals]

I spent a lot of time at Grant's/Middlesex Mall when I was a kid. Here's a grand opening ad for the mall from May 1972.

...and here's an ad for the UA movie theaters in the mall.

In the mid 80s, long after Grant's had become K-mart, I saw Keshia Knight Pulliam, who was a PIscataway resident, shopping with her mother in K-mart. She gave me the cutest wave when she saw I was looking at her. She couldn't have been more than 6 or 7 years old, but it appeared she was keenly aware that people knew who she was due to her role on The Cosby Show.

She had a great line whwn Cosby told her NOT to just barge in to their bedroom. He told her to knock on the door and say who it is. SHE knocked and in repsonse to his "who's there?,she said WHO IT IS"

 

[alexandriaru]

There was the big warehouse in Edison on Rte. 27 that became the first Price Club (then PriceCostco and now just Costco) in the northeast.

And I remember having a Grant’s, Two Guys, Channel and Rickels on Highway 35 in Middletown growing up.

I worked at the Middletown Two Guys when I was a senior in high school (1968).

 

[REDRICH65]

I worked, collecting carts for the supermarket next to the Grants in North Brunswick. Used to sneak over to Grants to flirt with the big chested gap toothed Italian counter girl who worked there. Never did date her though. Oops senior moment. It was Woolworth, not WT Grant’s

 

[Doctorzit]

How about Leomens?

 

[RUwilsonNC]

There was a Grants in Clark off the traffic circle at exit 135 of the GSP. My sister worked in the record department there in the late 60s and received an employee discount on records that she still has till this day. I believe that location then became a Bradlees and now a Target.

BINGO - this was a Grants City

 

[Nowucme]

There was a Grants in Middlesex where the Farmers Market is now. There also was on in Piscataway where the Middlesex mall is off Shelton Road and Hadley. I worked at the latter for a couple years in high school. There was a small airport (Hadley Airport) there before the mall.

There was also a Nike muzzle base there too.

 

[Nowucme]

There was also a Nike muzzle base there too.

Whoops, that’s missel, not muzzle

 

[Nowucme]

Whoops, that’s missel, not muzzle

Let me try again: missile

 

[alden1]

I was at the grand opening for E.J. Korvettes located in the Blue Star Shopping Center on Rte 22 in Watchung in the late 1950's and got to meet Claude Kirschner and "Clowney" from the Terrytoon Circus TV Show, which aired M-F from 7-7:30 pm on Channel 9, who were promoting the event. Down the road was a 2 Guys from Harrison store in Watchung/N. Plainfield on 22 that I remember going to with my parents. There also was a J.J. Newberry Store in a shopping Center on Springfield Ave in Springfield that I never went into but went by several times. Newberry was a sponsor of the old TV show Romper Room which I always wanted to get on but never made it.

 

[RULoyal]

Yes, and I remember 2 guys, Calder, rickets, korvettes, channel too.

I think you meant Rickel's. If not try vitamin D.

 

[Colbert17!]

I was at the grand opening for E.J. Korvettes located in the Blue Star Shopping Center on Rte 22 in Watchung in the late 1950's and got to meet Claude Kirschner and "Clowney" from the Terrytoon Circus TV Show, which aired M-F from 7-7:30 pm on Channel 9, who were promoting the event. Down the road was a 2 Guys from Harrison store in Watchung/N. Plainfield on 22 that I remember going to with my parents. There also was a J.J. Newberry Store in a shopping Center on Springfield Ave in Springfield that I never went into but went by several times. Newberry was a sponsor of the old TV show Romper Room which I always wanted to get on but never made it.

I always wanted to be on Wonderama with Sonny Fox.

 

[hoquat63]

I think you meant Rickel's. If not try vitamin D.

Maybe he meant former major league pitcher Dave Ricketts

 

[RCBeta79]

There was a W.T. Grant store on Route 33 in Hamilton Square.

 

[cicero grimes]

There was a Grant's on Easton Ave in Somerset. We used to go there when I was a kid. I still remember my mom's lunch counter favorite- a hamburger with sauteed onions. After they went out of business, Foodtown took over the building.

I was just thinking the same thing. We used to go to one in Belleville near the Newark border. Those burgers I still remember from my childhood.

 

[RU#1fan]

"Attention Kmart Shoppers"...there are actually two pretty good ones..well stocked and well run and very clean. One in Hamilton and one in Doylestown, Pa. I was shocked at how decent these two stores were.

Blue Light Special

 

[toby83]

There was a Grants in downtown Dover near the Drive-In on top of the parking garage. Dover was a big deal at one point. Bunch of movie theaters, restaurants, shopping Mecca for much of Morris and Sussex counties.

couple great spots for lunchtime tacos