Jonathan Cohen's photos with the keyword: grocery store

Morton Williams, founded in 1954, is a family-owned and operated food retailer with eleven stores in the New York City Metropolitan area. The store advertises that each location " is designed to reflect the needs of the individual neighborhood." Presumably, the people who live in Greenwich Village need puns. For those whose mother language is not English, the cartoon on the right hand side of the photo puns on the word "horseradish." And for those unfamiliar with American popular culture, the cartoon on the left hand side refers to CHiPs, a television program depicting the lives of two motorcycle police officers of the California Highway Patrol. The series ran for 139 episodes over six seasons from 1977 to 1983.

Russ & Daughters is a family-operated food store specializing in appetizers. It is located at 179 East Houston Street, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City. Joel Russ, a immigrant from Poland who arrived in Manhattan around 1905, started the business to cater to his fellow immigrants in the Lower East Side of New York. He began by carrying Polish mushrooms on his shoulders, and saved enough money to purchase a pushcart. He then expanded his operation and sold pickled herring as well as mushrooms. Then in 1914, he opened J Russ International Appetizers, a storefront around the corner from the current location. In 1920, Russ moved his store to its current location at 179 East Houston Street. In 1933, he renamed the business "Russ and Daughters" after making his three daughters, Hattie, Anne, and Ida, partners in the store. Businesses typically took on the name "and sons", but since Russ and his wife Bella had only daughters, his business became Russ & Daughters. However, Joel Russ was not a feminist ahead of his time. For him, getting his daughters into the business was not a matter of women’s rights, but a matter of economic survival. According to Hattie, she and the other daughters had all been working in the store on weekends since they were 8 years old, fishing the herring fillets from the pickle barrels. And as each of the girls finished high school, she started to work full-time.

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Et cela dans les deux langues officielles!

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