 |
| Logo I drew myself, mistakenly thought by some to be the real thing! |
These are former locations of P&C that had already closed years ago or recently, mainly in CNY. All NYS and/or vacant unless indicated:
Fulton (NY 481) - now CCC North, River Glen Plaza
Clyde (NY 414) - had last surviving early sign; now a Save-a-Lot
Bath - now a Save-a-Lot as well
Tyrone, PA (4/24) - former BiLo
Johnstown, PA (BiLo) - now a Valu King
Rome (NY 26) - Now a Dollar General
Rome (NY 46/Black River Blvd) - now a Price Chopper/Market 32
Rome (Freedom Plaza) (NY 46 & 49/Erie Blvd W) - later Tops, then P&C again, and back to Tops; now Grand Union
Pulaski - now a Tractor Supply, NY 13
Ogdensburg (4/20) - also a Save-a-Lot
Philipsburg, PA (BiLo)
Syracuse (Burnet Ave.) - Open 1986-2004; demolished for Bill Rapp Nissan*
Syracuse (Shop City) - Left in '80s, replaced Peter's in late 2004
Mattydale (US 11) - open 1986-94; now Big Lots*
Mattydale - Penny Curtiss bakery division
Auburn (NY 5/Grant Ave.) - demolished for Walgreens
Auburn (Genesee St.) - now CubeSmart
Oswego (NY 104)**
Syracuse (Eastwood) (NY 290) - Later Arc; also demolished for Walgreens; previously A&P
Fairmount - later Bed Bath and Beyond, now Old Navy
Utica - later Tops and now Hannaford (it's a small town, so I know)
Schenectady - left in late '90s
Hanover, NH
Lincoln, NH
Attica (Quality)
Jamestown (Quality)
Canton**
Gouverneur** (US 11)
Massena** (NY 37)
Peterborough, NH (was also A&P who are completely gone)
West Carthage**
Newark
Seneca Falls* (NY 5 & US 20)
Elmira Heights
Geneva (NY 5 & US 20) - Tops were already in town, but both are no more
Batavia - closed decades ago
East Syracuse (NY 290) - later Big M (former stepsister), now Thrifty Shopper (info based on picture of familiar marina-style building typical in postwar era)
Gang Mills
Watkins Glen (NY 414)
Muncy, PA - BiLo turned Big Lots
Hornell
Bradford, VT - now a Hannaford, may have been a Grand Union before P&C
Lakewood, NY (Quality)
White River Jct., VT - far outside usual Tops market region; previously a Grand Union
Erie, PA (Quality) - overlaps with existing Tops
Ithaca (Hancock St.) - same reason, although Pine Tree Road one survives to this day
Cortland, NY (US 11/NY 41) - overlapped with existing Tops (now Grand Union) on NY 281 & 222 in Cortlandville; also formerly Grand Union; now Dollar General (Riverside Plaza one lives on)
Clarion, PA (BiLo)
Blairsville, PA (BiLo)
Cicero - now an Ollie's Bargain Outlet
Judd Falls
Syracuse (Tipperary Hill) - Later a bingo hall, now a Jehovahs Witness Kingdom Hall
Watertown - US 11, later Tops; now Piggly Wiggly (South Watertown) and Grand Union (Pamelia)
Syracuse (Valley Plaza) - later a Tops, now vacant. Previously A&P. US 11.
Waterbury, VT
Natrona Heights, PA (BiLo)
Lebanon, NH - now Price Chopper
Hollidaysburg, PA (BiLo)
Colchester, VT
Rutland, VT - previously Grand Union and now Hannaford
Martinsburg, WV - left state years ago, as did sister stores BiLo and Big Bear
State College, PA - long gone from Centre County
Carthage (NY 26) - now Price Chopper
Macedon (NY 31)
Canandaigua (NY 5/US 20)
Herkimer (NY 28) - now Hannaford
Horseheads (NY 14)
Oneida (NY 46) - demolished by flood
Painted Post (NY 17C)
Plattsburgh
Potsdam** (NY 56)
Southport
Randolph, VT
Towanda, PA
Trumansburg (NY 89)
New Hartford (NY 5A) - now Hannaford
Little Falls (NY 28)- now Hannaford
duBois, PA (BiLo)***
Brookville, PA (BiLo)***
St Marys, PA (BiLo)***
Titusville, PA (Quality)***
Dunkirk (Quality)
Woodstock, VT - also was a Grand Union, then a Mac's Markets
Other towns TBD. Some of this was from a Google search, some from press, and some from memory. Many P&C locations that remained have just become Tops, from the North Country, Central Leatherstocking Region, southeast Finger Lakes, then Twin Tiers, and all the way back to Central New York.
*Previously Tops
**now Price Chopper
***now Giant Eagle
There are at least two former P & C locations missing from your list.
ReplyDeleteOne in Cobleskill, NY, which is now an Agway/Kelley Farm & Garden/True Value Hardware, and one in Oneonta, NY. I don't remember what they converted that P & C into. Both of these locations closed sometime after 2003 but before 2006.
The one in Oneonta is now smokers choice and dollar general. I used to work at the Oneonta and Cobleskill locations.
DeleteThe cobleskill p&c closed back in the mid 90's. I graduated in 2003 and it was closed for at least a decade
DeleteAnd my grand father worked at that location as a butcher and my grandma in the bakery
DeleteMore additions, from Rome, NY:
ReplyDelete1) P&C used to have a store on the north side of Rome along Route 26 (Turin Rd). It shared an ugly old building with what used to be a Carl's Drugs > Fays Drugs > Eckerd > Rite Aid. Don't know if the drugstore is still there, but the P&C closed a long time ago and part of the space has been converted to a Dollar General. This P&C was awful; still had cashiers punching prices manually (no scanners) well into the 90s, and the decor was stuck in the late 70s/early 80s.
2) P&C finally built a new store on Black River Blvd, between Chestnut Street and James Street, in the late 90s or early 2000s. But only a few years later, it would close up, and Price Chopper, which had a Super Center across the street, moved into the slightly larger P&C store.
3) P&C had a *really* bad store on Erie Blvd West, next to JCPenney in what was once called "Freedom Mall." The outside was so bad and the plaza was kinda sketchy, so we almost never went there when I was a kid. Sometime in the late 90s, the place was torn down. Tops built a brand new store on the site, much better looking, cleaner, etc. Ironically, when Tops pulled out of the CNY area, they sold the store to P&C -- and the store wound up back into Tops ownership when P&C went bankrupt for the last time earlier this year.
I remember this store, it was the same design as the original store in Camden and they never updated it. Those DTS 440s lived a long time, same with the Little Falls store, they had the DTS registers from the late 70s in 1995 before the store was closed down.
DeleteThe Cobleskill P&C, located independently out of the actual town, Closed in December 200. It was purchased by the State University of New York at Cobleskill, the leased out to Sears (on used 1/3rd of the stores sq. ft), Sears closed and True Value moved in. It was open and closed my first semester of college, was a 1980's looking store, but was very enjoyable, and convienient.
ReplyDeleteThe Canandaigua P&C closed in 2002, was a clean store, located adjacent from Wal-Mart, and the plaza was less than a mile from Danny Wegmans "child" mega Wegmans store. Closed prior to the new Tops opening uptown on Rt. 332. The store was vacant, and used as a temprary book discount store, a seasonal holloween store and then it was split up in 2008, and Peebles department store occupies part of the space, and the other half is still vacant.
Border City P&C (Geneva/Waterloo) on Rt 5&20, relocated next to the busier Rt 414/5&20 intersection in Seneca Falls. Closed in the 1980's, and is now a Hep Sales.
Just found in a box of old slides a series of the 1971 Cobleskill College homecoming parade, taken from a vantage point just across the road from the P&C so many of them show it in the background.
DeleteCobleskill P&C closed December 2003
ReplyDeleteNew Hartford P&C became a Price Chopper (which had moved there from K-Mart Plaza)...the Hannaford's started out as something like a "Shop & Save".
ReplyDeleteHerkimer P&C was torn down & the county wants to build its new jail on that site. Hannaford had built its own store a short distance away.
When did the P&C on Turin Rd in Rome, NY close? I know it was somewhere around 200-2002...
ReplyDeleteThe former P&C in Plattsburgh, NY closed sometime around 2007-2008, and (along with the rest of the former Ames/P&C Plaza) was demolished in 2010-11, though the Ames and P&C signs are still located at the entrances to the plaza.
ReplyDeleteThere was a P&C in Gloversville NY. Was later home to Staples for a few years, now is a Tractor Supply Store.
ReplyDeleteThe Colchester, VT P&C has been a Price Chopper since at least 2012.
ReplyDeletenorthside shopping plaza in Oneida, replaced by Sav-A-Lot, now an auto parts store
ReplyDeleteThere used to be a P&C in Ticonderoga on Montcalm St that closed sometime in the 80s. In the 90s it was an independent (Ticonderoga Market) and then a Great American. It closed in '99 shortly after Wal-Mart opened it that town. After sitting empty for 5 years it became a Family Dollar, but that store closed within a couple of years.
ReplyDeleteThe building's current use is somewhat unique for an old grocery store. It houses an exact replica of the sets from the original Star Trek series. A local guy who works as an Elvis impersonator used his own money to build the sets and along with an army of volunteers filmed several Star Trek fan movies, and even got some of the original actors to appear. After CBS changed the rules for fan films, they stopped filming and started offering tours to the public. William Shatner himself even made a recent appearance at the set.
There are a few more that I know are or were later Tops: Canastota, Cooperstown, Chittenango, and Cazenovia (this one was one of those branded as a "P&C Fresh").
ReplyDeleteThe one in Sherrill is also a Tops, which is ironic considering they closed their previous location in 2005 only to have one open 2 miles east of Oneida.
The Valley Plaza one in Syracuse, along with the (new) Geneva location also closed as Tops in November 2018.
There were 2 in Oneonta NY One became a 3 store mini plaza the other became Fox Care Center
ReplyDeleteThe Pulaski store is now a Tops, the tractor supply moved into the old Ames/Wise Buys. Pulaski actually had three incarnations of P&C. The first was on S Jefferson Street near the Long Bridge. The second was on the corner of S Jefferson St and Port St (Route 13), that's now an Ace Hardware. That second store was paired with a Rite Aid but then Rite Aid moved out and the store was expanded to the whole building in 1986. The third store was built out on Rome Rd to where Tops is today sometime in the late 1990s.
ReplyDelete