[?]Okay.I know that technically,this isn’t a Model Railroad Question perse,but I’m planning on my Layout to be set in Central Texas and follow either MP/Katy in the 1958-60 era.I’d like to use City Classics West End Market as a Piggly Wiggly Supermarket,and I was wondering if anyone has any Photos of what a P.W.Supermarket looked like back then. Also,how were their Trucks and Traillers Painted in that era as well?? Anyhow,your’e replies are appreciated.[:D]
Did you try a Google Image search? Worth a try and it’s fast.
Bob Boudreau
I didn’t think we had Piggly Wigglys in central Texas. I guess you learn something new every day.
Bottom of page 1 of Google:
You are serious, aren’t you ? ? there really is a thing called Piggely Wiggely? c’mon ! !
tatans,
What a sheltered life you lead… lol
TABunch Guys.I really appreciate all your responses.Anyway,first of all to Bob Boudreau.I looked up Piggly Wiggly on Google.It had a History and led you to their Website,but it didn’t really tell me what I really needed to know.By the way,aren’t you the Bob Boudreau who had the Fundy Northern Layout ??If so,I used to read about the FN in MR in the 80’s.It’s good to meet you via cyberspace!!CSmith:Your’e kidding,right??They used to have PW’s all over Texas in the 60’s!!Luling had one until the late 80’s/early 90’s and Temple had one until late 1997 when Scott&White Hospital bought it and converted into a Clinic.I looked on P.W.'s Website and there are at least six of them still in business in Texas.Two in Sherman and one in Denton.I forgot where the other three are at.Mr.B;Thank You for the pitcure.It’ll come in handy.I’m kinda torn between modeling an A&P or Piggly Wiggly using either City Classics West End Market or Bachmann’s Plasticville Supermarket.The only thing I don’t like about City Classics West End is that it’s on a corner.The only thing about Bachmann’s is it’s kinda toylike.But I think if you do a few minor changes like scraping off the lettering;replacing the roof;windows and doors;it’d be suitable for the era.It does have a slight Art Deco look to it.Tatans:Your’e also kidding me,right??Piggly Wiggly’s been in business for 90 years!!Charlie,I concur with you!!As Hank Hill says “That Boy Ain’t Right!!”.Anyway,TABunch for the replies.Now if someone’ll show me their Delivery Trucks looked back then,I’ll be doing fine. John P.
When I was stationed in Texas in the early 70s, the first time I heard the name Piggly Wiggly, I cracked up, thinking that they made it up. Then, about a 1/2 mile off base, there it was: The Piggly Wiggly store on Pat Booker Rd. in Universal City, TX.
LMAO. There is a Piggly Wiggly not to far from me. Wiggly piggly we call it. They even have a pink VW beetle with a hog’s nose cast in the hood and curly tail hanging out the back. The most disgusting car I ever seen.
Ah, so you were at Randolph. I lived in Schertz for quite a few years off and on.
Yep the Piggly Wiggly’s are still going good here in
Sherman. Heck we even had a Safeway here and a Safeway warehouse in Denison.
Anybody remember Gibson’s discount stores?
heck we even had a Mom&pop restaraunt here in Sherman till the late 70’s. I was 4 and used to get free ice cream there all the time.
Yep you guys have led a sheltered life.
Tom
First Piggly Wiggly I saw was in Wichita Falls, Tx in 1970, when transfered to Sheppard AFB. In fact that store was where I bought my first handgun (Astra 38 Special). Try that in a Safeway or Smiths today!.
Gibson’s? Oh ya. I enjoyed the Gibson’s in Burkburnett for years. It furnished all my reloading supplies.
Wally
Even thought I am 31, I still remember the Gibson’s as a kid. We had quite a few in San Antonio area. I don’t remember any of the Gibson’s carrying model railroad supplies, but their popularity was definately dwindling (Wal Mart and the likes).
I saw one for the first time during 1986 in Clearwater, Florida. When I drove into the supermarket parking lot, I cracked up laughing when I saw the sign.
One of my wife’s cousins in Reidsville, Georgia drove semi-trucks approximately 20 years for Piggly Wiggly. Made good money at it as he was constantly on the go.
yeah there are piggy wiggy markets sho nuff, aint none of dem up norf doh, lol
I thought Piggly Wiggly was a Wisconsin thing! LOL! Hey man theres Piggly Wigglys near Germantown, and few other places north of Milwaukee. There used 2 b a Piggly Wiggly on like 13th and Oklahoma in Milwaukee then it closed due 2 the bigger stores. Its sad but with the invasion of Super Walmarts, piggly wiggly is tryin 2 figure out how 2 stay alive around here.
I used 2 work for a small ma and pa store that carried food club products from Piggly Wiggly.
DON
In the 80s there was also a grocery chain called Hinky Dinky. I used to work at a TV station that carried their commercials. The jingle said, “Only Hinky Dinky Do!” It was a direct competitor to Piggly Wiggly. The one we used to run commercials for was along the BN mainline in McCook, Nebraska. That same town had a health food store called The Magic Carrot. Those would all be neat names on a layout. During that era (the 80s) a group of us formed a club and built an HO layout in the baement of a tv repair shop (Erv’s Electronics in Oberlin, Kansas). We had an office supply store on the layout call Pickwick’s Papers and a farm supply store with a sign advertising feeds from Louie Weevil (instead of Louie Dreyfus). If you don’t know what a weevil is you must think milk is made down at the dairy.
O.K. O.K. So there really is a Piggly Wiggly : Formed in 1916 and the first to introduce self-serve service plus many many innovations. They have 600 stores in 16 states and did $4 billion in sales last year, They did have 2600 stores. The name? ? the originator of the chain used it so people would ask “why the unusual name?” the present day stores are very customer oriented. —but it really is a strange name.
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i remember back in the mid fifties the piggly wiggly in south carolina even sold possum belly and crow gizzards in their meat department, they also had marsh rabbit for sale.the possum belly was so popular that they couldn`t keep it in stock.
There are a bunch here in North carolina, but only in the small towns that do not have like a Super walmart, or a Harris teeter, or Lowes foods store. The locals all shop there. They ran an ad campaign not to long ago, that they where handing out bumper stickers that said: “We are sticking with the Pig”
They are very clean stores(most of them). I deliver the meat coats and mats to some of them, so i get to see the back rooms of these places. Same thing with all these small mom&pop restraunts. Some I would eat at, and some I would not, even if they are my customers.
And as a kid grewing up in Wisconsin(Oshkosh) in the mid 70’s, going there with my mom shopping. We did all our grocery shopping there, it was only like 6 or 7 blocks from the house.