See, I'm old enough to remember what corner variety stores were before 7-11 came into the country and pretty much changed ... Americanized? .. everything. Gas stations used to be just that - gas stations. Maybe they sold smokes and had a pop machine, otherwise, they just sold gas, and maybe also had a garage for servicing (and you didn't have to mess with pumping your own damn gas.)
Now-People would probably call the little variety store on the corner a "bodega", as it was run by an Italian immigrant couple, but we just called it "the corner store"/variety store. (And yeah, he also had a little butcher shop in the back and sold a few veggies that he probably bought off the local old "babushka ladies" of the neighbourhood.) And since there were a few small mom and pop variety stores around, we just called it by the name of the owner if we wanted to be specific ... I think we only made trips to a supermarket maybe once a month back then.
I can't really remember, honestly, and there wasn't that kind of thing then and there yet. I just remember the trips to the Dominion supermarket were pretty infrequent, and it was always so damn crowded on a Saturday because of no Sunday shopping (and that last part was true right up until the 1990s.) I just mostly got sent to that corner store with a small list and some money, and that was our grocery shopping. A pound of ground beef, a can of something, maybe some milk, and a pack of cigarettes (well, he knew I wasn't smoking them at 7 years old.)
See, I'm old enough to remember what corner variety stores were before 7-11 came into the country and pretty much changed ... Americanized? .. everything. Gas stations used to be just that - gas stations. Maybe they sold smokes and had a pop machine, otherwise, they just sold gas, and maybe also had a garage for servicing (and you didn't have to mess with pumping your own damn gas.)
Now-People would probably call the little variety store on the corner a "bodega", as it was run by an Italian immigrant couple, but we just called it "the corner store"/variety store. (And yeah, he also had a little butcher shop in the back and sold a few veggies that he probably bought off the local old "babushka ladies" of the neighbourhood.) And since there were a few small mom and pop variety stores around, we just called it by the name of the owner if we wanted to be specific ... I think we only made trips to a supermarket maybe once a month back then.
I can't really remember, honestly, and there wasn't that kind of thing then and there yet. I just remember the trips to the Dominion supermarket were pretty infrequent, and it was always so damn crowded on a Saturday because of no Sunday shopping (and that last part was true right up until the 1990s.) I just mostly got sent to that corner store with a small list and some money, and that was our grocery shopping. A pound of ground beef, a can of something, maybe some milk, and a pack of cigarettes (well, he knew I wasn't smoking them at 7 years old.)
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Oh, hell yeah, that's me, except with much paler skin. :) As I mentioned before, I didn't get an allowance. But I did get to keep coin.