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Then & Now: A&P, Main Street, Fitchburg
The paper mills were in west Fitchburg, and so were neighborhoods of apartment houses filled with workers.
Downtown was a bus ride away, along the Nashua River. If there was shopping to be done for food, clothes, a new bike Main Street was the one-stop destination.
In most cities, big and small, downtown was the true hub into the 1970s.
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. better known as A&P was a staple of downtowns everywhere, including a storefront at 540 Main St. in Fitchburg. The grocery chain once claimed 16,000 stores.
Our Then photo shows the A&P about 1940. It was part of a landscape of familiar stores among them Woolworths and Kresge s and long-ago shops that the city s grandparents might recall Alex Krysil s Book Shop, Parke Snow s department store and S.M Nathan jewelry store.