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  2. Mr. Whipple - Wikipedia

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    According to a 1970s survey, [citation needed] Mr. Whipple topped then-U.S. President Jimmy Carter as the most recognizable face in North America. According to Charmin makers Procter & Gamble, a 1978 survey found that Mr. Whipple was the third best-known American, behind former President Richard Nixon and evangelist Billy Graham.

  3. List of defunct department stores of the United States

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    F. C. Nash & Co. – Nash's (Pasadena), at one time had 5 stores in downtown locations in neighboring small cities during the 1950s and 1960s, founded in 1889 as a grocery store, became a department store in 1921, branch stores were unable to compete with larger chains opening in malls built in the late 1960s and early 1970s and had to be ...

  4. Jitney Jungle - Wikipedia

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    Originally, brothers Judson McCarty Holman and William Henry Holman and their cousin William Bonner McCarty founded a grocery store in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1912. Over the next few years, they opened additional stores, but in 1916, one of their stores found itself unable to collect the amounts owed by some of its customers, and the idea of changing over to a cash-and-carry business model ...

  5. Did you shop at Pantry Pride, Food Fair, Xtra? Take a look at ...

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    A Food Fair grocery store. .Paul Daegling, supervisor of industrial relations of Food Fair, explains the operation in 1966. A news article about Food Fair and Pantry Pride.

  6. List of defunct retailers of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Hills Supermarkets; Hinky Dinky – Nebraska chain acquired by Nash Finch in 2000; Hughes Markets – a Southern California-based supermarket chain that was first acquired by QFC in 1996 [114] and then merger into Ralphs the following year when the parent companies of both Hughes and Ralphs were simultaneously acquired by Fred Meyer [115]

  7. 12 ‘Fancy’ Electronics From the 1970s That Were the Height of ...

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    Launched in 1972, digital watches became the ultimate tech accessory of the ’70s. With their glowing LED displays, they made traditional analog watches seem old-fashioned and, perhaps, a tad boring.

  8. Waldbaum's - Wikipedia

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    From the 1960s onward, her picture and her recipes appeared on almost all of the company's 400 private-label products. [6] By 1951, the company had opened its first supermarket in Flushing, Queens and net sales reached $55.2 million by 1960. In 1961, the company went public by selling shares of common stock, though the Waldbaum's family still ...

  9. Chevy's emotional holiday ad features a grandmother with ...

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    Reminiscence therapy is credited to the work of Dr. Robert Butler, a psychiatrist in the field of geriatric medicine in the 1960s, and is sometimes called life review therapy.It can be a helpful ...