Jane Parker Fruitcake has been a holiday tradition since the late 1930’s.
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, better known as A&P, was an American chain of grocery stores that operated from 1859 to 2015. From 1915 through 1975, A&P was the largest grocery retailer in the United States (and, until 1965, the largest U.S. retailer of any kind)
Carl and Ada Zimmerman leased a one-room country store (above) from Edward and Minnie Aylsworth in 1938 and purchased it in 1943, remodeling and expanding it into the area’s first supermarket.
The store closed in 2001 and the building was demolished in 2005 when Weston Buick Pontiac GMC and Kia built a new showroom and dealership in its place (below).
On this day in 1901, U.S. President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by Leon Czolgosz, an American anarchist . McKinley succumbed to his wounds on September 14, 1901. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was sworn into office on the same day, succeeding McKinley, who had been reelected in 1900. Gzolgosz was executed on October 29, 1901.
Leon Frank Czolgosz (May 5, 1873 – October 29, 1901)
The site of William McKinley’s tragic assassination in Buffalo, New York is only marked by a plaque on a large boulder.
President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded on this day in 1901 (he died eight days later) by Leon Czolgosz (below). The American anarchist was executed the following October.
Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances Spencer) (July 1, 1961 – August 31, 1997)
The concept of a self-service grocery store was developed by Clarence Saunders and his Piggly Wiggly stores. His first store (above) opened on this day in 1916.
Clarence Saunders (August 9, 1881 – September 23, 1953)
George Roger Waters is 74 years old today.
Roger Waters was the Bass player, composer, vocalist, and front man of the English rock band Pink Floyd, the group known for songs like "Shine On You Crazy Diamond." He was the chairman of the Cambridge Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament at age fifteen. Waters helped compose the soundtrack to the 1970 documentary The Body.
Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985 and began a legal dispute with the remaining members over their use of the band’s name and material. They settled out of court in 1987, and nearly eighteen years passed before he performed with them again. As a member of Pink Floyd, Waters was inducted into the U.S. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005