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This is the A&P Store at the corner of Main Street and Walcott Street in Hopkinton!
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company store (otherwise known as A&P supermarkets) features elaborate window displays, awnings, and notable architectural details.
The two men in the doorway are Paul Danahy (manager) and William Smith (Pinchy), store clerk. The date is 1932-1933. The second doorway is to the Edison Company office.
#tbt
CORNER OFF WALCOTT & MAIN….BARBERSHOP THERE NOW
Brown and Smith?
My family and certainly I don’t go that far back. (1930s) But for some reason I remember A&P. Could that have been where A&P became Wood’s Superette? I definitely remember the Edison office where my mother would go every month and pay our electric bill. It became Framingham Trust Co. and eventually Nancy McMillian’s Lovely Lady Salon until relatively recently.
I have great memories of Main Street. Thanks for posting.
WOODS SUPERETE WAS THE NEXT TWO BUILDINGS DOWN. CLOSER TO KATZ DRUG STORE AND OSBOURES
THIS BUILDING WAS THE AUTO PARTS STORE IN THE 60S
I remember that, remember Bill from pizza villa? Didn’t he run that auto parts store, remember Tori Valley sports was, the Santander bank, i worked there as a kid, played and was part of Hopkinton first hockey program in town, Hopkinton Hornets, our colors were the old Los Angeles kings purple and yellow with a hornet on the front, Clayton Smith covered all the cost of the uniforms, he came down to the ice house pond one winter and recruited all of us, that was the day the Hopkinton hockey program in this town began, way before it was a thing in high school, fun times, before the drug store and Sampsons was a restaurant we had a Cumberland farms there too, lots of good history and happenings in town i could write a book….
Brown & Smith’s was called ‘Pinchy’s’ – and yes, the Hopkinton Hornets – remembering the Gidney’s from near Elmwood School – Kenny and his dad were a part of that during the Bobby Orr years.