These are just a few images I found online or new and old A&P store signs. I'm thinking of adding some of these typography elements into my book cover design.
I also didn't know much about what A&P was (when I first read the story I didn't even know it was a real store). Looking up the A&P supermarket I found that it started in 1860 with only five stores. It grew very quickly to be the largest food retailer in America by 1930. It was as well known as McDonald's or Google is today, and considered the "Walmart" of the time. It started as a tea and coffee retailer in New york city and then began to grow from there soon becoming a self serve supermarket. Their decline started in the 1950's with the expansion of new, larger supermarkets. They have been struggling ever since to keep what little stores they still have starting a reconstruction plan in late 2011 in order to emerge from bankruptcy. Today there are 338 stores still in business mostly around the East coast in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
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