Original Grocery Tenant: King Market
Address: 77 Southbridge St, Auburn, MA
The Home Outlet in Auburn near the Worcester border was until recently a Grossman's Bargain Outlet, but long before that, the 22,000 square foot building was constructed in the late 1950s (probably as a smaller building) as King Market, later closing sometime between 1964 and 1975.
Address: 77 Southbridge St, Auburn, MA
Opened: between 1955 and 1961
Closed: between 1964 and 1975
Later Tenants: unknown > Home Outlet
Photographed: March 26, 2022
Notable here is that the original supermarket appears to have been the rectangular building to the right, not the pitched-roof section to the left. That was added between 1960 and 1966, so it's possible it was added by the grocer before it closed, or by a later tenant afterwards. And we're going straight through the weekend, with a Grocery Archaeology survey of Auburn coming tomorrow!
Home Outlet is (more or less) the same thing, just a different name, as any of the ones around here in NY were also renamed.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, they don't have as much "little" stuff as they used to.
Ah, makes sense.
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