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ACCESSION NUMBER   976:0021:0180
CATEGORY   Business, Retail
SUBCATEGORY   Food store
TITLE   Unidentified grocery
DESCRIPTION   Interior view of an unidentified grocery store located in or around Corpus Christi, Texas. Two men in jackets stand behind a counter. Behind them are shelves of canned and boxed goods. A man in a dark hat, leather jacket, and pin-striped pants stands in front of the counter. This grocery was not self-service. Instead, the men behind the counter would fill customers' orders. This store advertised Mazola oil and Kre-Mel dessert. Nueces coffee (from a local wholesaler, see negative 976:0021:0244); Palmolive soap, 5¢; Post Toasties cornflakes; Mother's and National Oats, K.C. and Dairy Maid baking powder; Lily White flour; and Spanish salt were sold.
SUBJECT   Consumers. (lctgm)
Grocers. (lctgm)
Grocery stores. (lctgm)
Interiors. (lctgm)
Men. (lcsh)
United States--Texas. (lcsh)