RIVERDALE RAT
78 posts
Aug 29, 2009
3:27 PM
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Seems like I remember a couple because I used to get angry with my mother for shopping there. (they gave S&H Green stamps) I was saving Top Value. Albers was always a cincinnati mainstay, they were the main competition for Krogers in that region.
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Dan-O
36 posts
Aug 31, 2009
6:43 AM
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There was an Alber's in the old Miracle Lane Shopping Center, which was located on the west side of Salem Avenue (around the 3000 block, between Litchfield Avenue and West Hillcrest Avenue). I remember grocery shopping with my mother there in the late 50s-early 60s. When the Alber's closed down I believe it was replaced by a Duff's Smorgasbord. Miracle Lane used to be a vibrant place, but now I think it's just a big vacant lot.
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driver62
209 posts
Aug 31, 2009
7:06 AM
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Dan-O - You are correct about Miracle Lane. There's nothing there now except a grass lot. Albers was before I moved to Dayton but I remember Duff's. There was also a bingo parlor and a state store there.
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RIVERDALE RAT
100 posts
Aug 31, 2009
8:11 AM
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Dan-O/Driver62: I remember the Albers now. I think there was a Grey's drug store in there too. does anybody remember a club called the Candle something ?
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Marck1957
65 posts
Aug 31, 2009
7:26 PM
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Mikey...That place is still a grocery store. The drugstore became a furniture store, and then a beer drive-through, and a year or two ago it burned completely down. It is a vacant lot now. Just north of the grocery there was a neighborhood bakery. I don't recall the name. Mom would send me up there daily to get a loaf of their fresh white bread. I was allowed to eat the "heel" of the loaf on my way back home. They had a bread slicing machine that amazed me!I think the restaurant you speak of was "Sano's", and I had many a bur-haircut at that barber shop. We wanted Beatles hair, but were denied by the parents. My brother and I weren't very happy about that! I know that neighborhood like the back of my hand, and it's cool to see somebody else has fond memories of it too.
Last Edited by on Aug 31, 2009 7:27 PM
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RIVERDALE RAT
171 posts
Sep 06, 2009
6:30 PM
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Just took a spin up Xenia Ave courtesy of Mr. Google. looks like a old supermarket building there on the south side of the street near St Marys Church. could that have been a Albers at one time ? I dont remember a supermarket having been there.
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newsnot
67 posts
Sep 06, 2009
6:48 PM
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riverdale; if it was 504 xenia avenue that was an atlantic and pacific tea store. did you look up;
WWW.SOAPS.COM ? lots of info there on dayton amusment parks.
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RIVERDALE RAT
173 posts
Sep 06, 2009
7:45 PM
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newsnot: Ok, I remember we had a conversation about the old A&P stores a while back. dont think I remember that one being open though. maybe I just forgot. thanks for the info.
I am going to have a better look at the link later tonight. I have been busy today and not on here too much except to take a quick peek. the link looks very promising. thanks for providing it.
Last Edited by on Sep 06, 2009 7:55 PM
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newsnot
80 posts
Sep 07, 2009
6:12 PM
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riverdale,
there was an atlantic & pacific tea co. located at 4225 north main street. this was about across the from frankie's amusment park. not sure what year it opened.there was a theatre next to this shopping center also. not sure of the name.
Last Edited by on Sep 07, 2009 6:14 PM
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mem
30 posts
Nov 24, 2009
1:01 PM
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driver62 - The theater was calles Ames when the A&P was in operation and later changed to Loew's.
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cjguitar
13 posts
Apr 29, 2011
10:16 PM
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I worked part time at the Albers Supermarket on Helena St. in 1958. The store was brand new and the cashiers had to go to special training to run the newmodern cash registers. I went to Kiser High school also. I remember giving out green stamps and going home with green fingers from handing out all those stamps. And in the winter freezing when I was stationed at a register close to the door. I made like $3.00 an hour and that was pretty good for a part-time student then.
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