Convenience Stores / Corner Stores / Variety Stores
Convenience Stores / Corner Stores
Cumberland Farms - Located at corner of High St & Ashland St.
Unknown Corner Store - Located at Name Unknown, Corner of Broad & Merrimac St opposite Towle Silversmiths.
Fowler’s Meat Market - Located at the corner of High St and Myrtle Ave. The owner’s son took his own life if my memory is correct. I remember going there a few times with friends and seeing the son behind the meat counter at the rear of the store. He seemed to be a quiet type.
J.J. Newberry - Located on Pleasant St. More Info
North Shore Grain Company aka Penny Candy Store - Located on Merrimac St near Leary’s Package Store. The place was a grain feed store, but also sold penny candy. We used to call it the Cockroach Corner, due to the extreme smell of grain feed and the cluttered conditions inside. Behind the counter to the left as you entered was the location of all the penny candy. She would, the owner, be wearing a red smock as she pulled out a wax sandwich bag to fill it with candy. In those days no one seemed to care that she would pet the cat and proceed to touch the candy immediately afterwards. It was a magical time… Gone forever.
Corners stores
Tony Bakers on water st
Padios(sp) on Prospect st across from the Brown school playground.
Izzies on Federal St and there was another store at the corner of Bromfield and Purchase I forget that one.. But my grandmother use to work there.
JJ Newberry Pleasant st.. Remember the use to have the balloons behind the counter and you’d throw a dart at the balloon and win something ,like .50 cents off a sundae.
The store on the corner of Broad and Merrimac was Reardon’s..I believe theowner got hurt some how and he closed it down
Thats right it was Reardons, and there was Jones store on Merrimac street next to Nicks PIzza. ther was also Andy’s not sure of correct name it was on the other side of NIcks PIzza where Magaret Leary(sp?) had her Dance school. there was one on pleasant street between Leightons Bakery and Port theater too.
Don’t forget Kreskies it was right next to J.J. Newberrys
Corner Store on Pleasant and Winter
Guess I got to take a ride through Good Olde Newburyport when I am down that way next month..see ya then dmeaton
Burmans on the corner of Winter and Washington Street by the train depot…Danny Healeys almost on the corner of Boardman and Washington Streets..Kunkels school supplys on State Street…Tony Bakers down on Water Street and Lime ..he had the best pepper steak…
there was Canopies Package Store on the corner on Green and Merrimac…Sullivan and Lyons on the Corner of Low Street and Story Ave..it was nice to be Friend with Chris Lyons the owners son back then …then there was the First National Groceries across from the Mall..the General Store on the corner of Inn and Pleasant Store..
Can’t forget Schartzes on the corner of Orange St. or Rochettes on the corner of Lime St. and Purchase St. …I forget the name of the Drug Store on the other corner of Purchase St. ( across from Rochettes AKA Knowles Package , South End Spirits…)
There was another on the corner of Federal and Orange too in the 70s .
The other one on Lime St. was Stickneys Package across from the Brown School .
Your right about Tony Bakers pepper steak ! He had good penny candy too …