Hey Paul, weren’t we like assistant managers at Barron’s? Remember that time he took us on a delivery in his old station wagon, out to Cherry Hill. He was puffing his cigar the whole way, and we were petrified he could not see where he was driving.
Hi All,
After more thought, I realize that this address for Barrons is not the one I remember. A store by the railroad tracks on Westfield Ave was Barags groceries (everyone from the Acres shopped there). As I remember after Barags folded up, it became Barrons Rugs. (Maybe they just had an advertisement painted on the side of the building??? Can someone help solve this???)
Inez, Barron’s could very well have been where Barags later was located. It seems he moved his store around. When the rug mart was at 36th and Westfield (as it was listed in the ad above) that location later became Jimmy Burgoe’s Pizza; it was right next door to Nick Rapanotti’s house. Nick talked about Barron’s being there in one of the archival posts. When Barron’s moved from 36th and Westfield, he moved across the street and up to the next corner – to 37th and Westfield, and that is where he was through the 70’s.
Maybe Skeeter Moy, Freddy Vesper or someone will know about Barags along the railroad track. If it is the building I am thinking of, it became Stockton Liquor Store in the 70’s, it was right along the tracks opposite Dudley Grange Park and the tennis courts. I seem to recall another business being there prior to the liquor store.
The address of Barrons cought my eye. Was it on the south east corner?
When I was a little girl, that corner housed an Acme Market. My grandfather would walk from N 36th St. to the Acme pulling a wheeled basket for the groceries.
Later, it became a printing shop. but the size of the building would make sense to become a rug mart.
Peggy, the building you are thinking of on the corner of 36th and Westfield housed in the 60’s and 70’s Acme Craftsman Stationary – and they did have a print shop. Barron’s was on the opposite corner of 36th, same side of Westfield, going North towards Pennsauken, so the NE Corner. After Barron’s moved to the corner of 37th and Westfield, Jimmy Burgoes opened his pizza shop in the building, which was adjacent to Nick Rapanotti’s house on 36th. If my memory serves me, Nick’s sister Barb worked at Acme Craftsman in the late 70’s, and I remember my wife and I ordering our wedding invitations from there and Barb helping us pick them out.
Perhaps Acme Craftsman, kept the name “Acme” as part of their name, from when the building was a supermarket.
February 19, 2008 at 12:59 am
Hey Paul, weren’t we like assistant managers at Barron’s? Remember that time he took us on a delivery in his old station wagon, out to Cherry Hill. He was puffing his cigar the whole way, and we were petrified he could not see where he was driving.
April 9, 2009 at 2:03 pm
I lived in “the Acres” when I was a student and shopped for groceries at Barags (later to be Baron’s Rug Mart)….. I liked it better as Barags.
April 17, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Hi All,
After more thought, I realize that this address for Barrons is not the one I remember. A store by the railroad tracks on Westfield Ave was Barags groceries (everyone from the Acres shopped there). As I remember after Barags folded up, it became Barrons Rugs. (Maybe they just had an advertisement painted on the side of the building??? Can someone help solve this???)
April 17, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Inez, Barron’s could very well have been where Barags later was located. It seems he moved his store around. When the rug mart was at 36th and Westfield (as it was listed in the ad above) that location later became Jimmy Burgoe’s Pizza; it was right next door to Nick Rapanotti’s house. Nick talked about Barron’s being there in one of the archival posts. When Barron’s moved from 36th and Westfield, he moved across the street and up to the next corner – to 37th and Westfield, and that is where he was through the 70’s.
Maybe Skeeter Moy, Freddy Vesper or someone will know about Barags along the railroad track. If it is the building I am thinking of, it became Stockton Liquor Store in the 70’s, it was right along the tracks opposite Dudley Grange Park and the tennis courts. I seem to recall another business being there prior to the liquor store.
April 26, 2009 at 10:29 pm
The address of Barrons cought my eye. Was it on the south east corner?
When I was a little girl, that corner housed an Acme Market. My grandfather would walk from N 36th St. to the Acme pulling a wheeled basket for the groceries.
Later, it became a printing shop. but the size of the building would make sense to become a rug mart.
April 27, 2009 at 4:51 am
Peggy, the building you are thinking of on the corner of 36th and Westfield housed in the 60’s and 70’s Acme Craftsman Stationary – and they did have a print shop. Barron’s was on the opposite corner of 36th, same side of Westfield, going North towards Pennsauken, so the NE Corner. After Barron’s moved to the corner of 37th and Westfield, Jimmy Burgoes opened his pizza shop in the building, which was adjacent to Nick Rapanotti’s house on 36th. If my memory serves me, Nick’s sister Barb worked at Acme Craftsman in the late 70’s, and I remember my wife and I ordering our wedding invitations from there and Barb helping us pick them out.
Perhaps Acme Craftsman, kept the name “Acme” as part of their name, from when the building was a supermarket.
April 28, 2009 at 9:36 am
Ken,
I remember that store when it was built to be some sort of computer or IBM store!
Peg