NEW: Everyone in Butte is anxiously waiting! Butte MT chain grocery/supermarket locations, 1925-2025. www.groceteria.com/place/us-mon...

NEW for your holiday shopping enjoyment: Billings MT chain grocery/supermarket locations, 1925-2025. www.groceteria.com/place/us-mon...

Are there really people who have a mad desire to listen to Walmart Radio at home?

I took kind of a news break this weekend. After seeing what I missed, I may make it permanent…

Uh...

I kind of love this...

Random thing I found while looking for something else... 40southnews.com/maplewood-hi...

You have your holiday traditions and I have mine...

Fairly extensive update to Modesto and Turlock CA. www.groceteria.com/place/califo...

Time to bring back Thrifty Maid.

The first commercials for “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire” (aka “The Simpsons Christmas Special”) started airing around this time in December 1989. Most of the footage in the earliest ads were from the Tracey Ullman shorts, mainly “Simpson Xmas.”

UPDATES: Altadena and Pasadena, Santa Cruz and Watsonville, Salinas and Monterey, Napa Valley, Vallejo and Fairfield (I'm apparently on a California nostalgia kick). Links here: groceteria.ca/board/viewto...

I'd really like to go to this, but 2500 miles is more than I want to drive after work today...

On this day in 1919, thousands gathered inside Eaton’s College Street store for the unveiling of a life-size bronze statue of founder Timothy Eaton. #OTD #OnThisDay #TorontoHistory #TimothyEaton #CanadianHistory #ROM #Toronto #Canada #jeremyhopkin

Home from my very snow-covered trip to Southern Ontario via Fort Wayne, Buffalo, and other places. Sneak preview of what this batch of research in Fort Wayne will be providing over the next few months here: www.groceteria.com/place/the-qu...

No other city gives me the warm fuzzies like Pittsburgh does.

How could anyone not want to eat here?

Quality time in Kitchener.

Loblaws, Niagara Falls ON.

Back in the USA. Sigh...

I covet this yardstick...

Woodstock had a lot more snow than Burlington

For the record, walking into an antique mall in Woodstock, Ontario and running into someone you know is disorienting as hell…

Diner. Dundas.

Snow day!

Thanksgiving dinner with Russell Williams. No, I don't know who he is (or was) either, but I like his restaurant.

Loblaws, Concession Street, Hamilton ON.

Dominion, Upper James Street, Hamilton ON.

From 1971. Several segments were shot in a UK Safeway store. youtu.be/nkigs_OgIoc?...

And Al Waxman smiled (at everyone)

Remember those bathroom heat lamps with the mechanical timer switches you used to see in old motels? Apparently they're back, redesigned for a new era.

My YouTube feed was already pretty Canada-centric, but the proportion of CanCon has gotten much higher now that I'm north of the border.

Downtown Aylmer ON

Unidentified, Talbot Street, Aylmer ON

Mister Rogers goes to the grocery store in 1984. For those of you who care about such things, it was located at 5901 Heckert Rd. in Bakerstown PA. youtu.be/5LHuIfucT78?...

Metro, originally, A&P, Wellington Rd., London ON.

I don't believe there is a hell, but if there were one, I imagine it might look a little like a small-town Meijer in Michigan on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving.

It's nice being back on the less scary side of the border

As I've said before, it may not be the best Italian beef in Chicago but it's almost certainly the best Italian beef in Fort Wayne...

My annual data shopping excursion at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where every city directory ever published goes to die.

I suppose this is a pretty good fortune to get on the first night of a big road trip...

Kroger? Wapakoneta OH.

Downtown Wapakoneta OH.

I can't really overstate how great the Book Loft in German Village (Columbus) is. I stop by every time I'm in town, almost always at night, because you can do that…

It's never not a good night to see The Third Man at the local movie palace…

NEW: Middletown OH chain grocery/supermarket locations, 1924-2000. www.groceteria.com/place/ohio/m...

Surprisingly interesting book that I found at Ollie's Outlet, somewhere between the the outdated travel guides and the discontinued soup aisle.

Modesty prevents me from suggesting that you read this, but I will say that I had a very nice dinner on Monday night. www.greensboro-nc.gov/Home/Compone...