Here’s an old Lawson's ad sure to rekindle some memories. It ran in the Lorain Journal on April 3, 1963 and very simply promotes one item: cottage cheese. But it’s the charming rendering of the convenience store with its iconic milk bottle sign that packs a nostalgic punch.
At right is a photo of a store similar to that depicted in the ad, courtesy of westparkhistory.com.
When you entered a Lawson’s store, you knew it would be clean and well-stocked.
According to this Wiki page, Lawson’s originated in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. The original store merely sold milk, but eventually grew into a chain of mini-supermarkets that was primarily Ohio-based.
(I posted an ad celebrating the June 1959 opening of the very first Lawson’s in Lorain here. I also posted a October 1959 ad here, a May 1962 Ice Cream ad here, a July 4th 1962 ad here, and a 1966 Dutch Loaf ad here.)
In the mid-1980s, Lawson’s stores in the U. S. were sold to Dairy Mart. Amazingly, the Lawson’s name lives on as a convenience store franchise chain in Japan.
Today, former Lawson’s stores dot the cityscape of many Ohio cities. You can find them repurposed as everything from a pizza joint to a doctor’s office.
Lawson's seems to be one topic that I have endless milked during the past year.
Why? For one thing, the convenient chain sponsored the ill-fated Issue 1 in the fall of 1962, attempting to do away with the Blue Law so the firm could be open on Monday. And Lawson's was a company that believed in the power of advertising, with huge ads pushing one main sales item, such as the ever-popular Dutch Loaf.
The full-page ad below is a little different in that it's not selling milk, orange juice or lunch meat; it's selling an idea – specifically that everyone was enjoying lower milk prices because of Lawson's. It appeared in the Lorain Journal on March 3, 1963.
Lawson's makes the case that because of its efficiencies in production, its streamlined distribution system and low container costs, the cost of any brand of milk in a market where Lawson's was doing business was lower than the national average.
It's an interesting feel-good ad, but I'm not sure if it won any new converts. I think they'd have been better off pushing hard salami on sale.
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It's funny how I feel nostalgic about Lawson's, despite the fact it probably helped put the local dairies out of business.
We drank a lot of milk in the Brady House when my siblings and I were kids. We had a glass of it with breakfast and lunch, and of course we put it on cereal, which we we had not only at breakfast, but also as a snack.
We were still having Home Dairy deliver milk in the late 1960s/early 70s. I can still see the wire milk holder in our garage next to the steps. But at some point, our milk man had come into the house (without knocking) and startled Mom. I think the story was that it was hot out and he wanted to put the milk in the fridge.
At that point, the time was ripe to drop home delivery and just buy it ourselves – probably at Lawson's, which was only a few minutes away.
Just in time for the July 4 holiday, here's a full-page Lawson's ad that ran in the Lorain Journal on Monday, July 2, 1962. It looks like they had all the ingredients for a great picnic covered.
Although I'm usually not too nostalgic about chain stores, I am about Lawson's. The ubiquitous stores were clean and well-stocked, and really set a standard for consistent quality.
Compare that to the some of the rather disgusting independent 'convenience' stores today that exist only to sell lottery tickets and liquor. (In Cleveland where I work, you would have to be insane to purchase any of the prepared foods in these filthy markets.)
Photo courtesy of Circle K
The Lawson's chain was eventually sold to Dairy Mart and re-branded. It's too bad, because Lawson's believed in the power of advertising, and the company had really created a strong and memorable brand.
There are still a few Dairy Marts in Lorain County, which is fine with me since I can purchase the original Lawson's Chip Dip there. It's also available at Circle K stores.
Here's a link to the Lawson's Wiki entry, which reveals that the store chain lives on today in Japan!
It's been a fairly food-filled week here on the blog, with 1962 ads for a grocery store and a meat market.
Along those lines, here's a full-page ad for Lawson's that ran in the Journal back on August 6, 1962. Lawson's had been open in Lorain since June 1959, and the convenience store had been advertising aggressively ever since.
Lawson's bright, clean, well-stocked stores had become a magnet for shoppers, who didn't mind spending a little more for the time saved by avoiding the long grocery store lines when they only needed a few items. Shopping at Lawson's was quite a different experience than wandering into one of today's independent (and often filthy) convenient stores, which exist mainly to sell liquor and lottery tickets, with groceries (at astronomical prices) merely an afterthought.
The Lawson's ad has an interesting angle, posing the question: Which bread do you prefer?
The choices were New Style ('smooth, silky bread with an extra-fine, cake-like texture') or Old Style (described as 'the more familiar, conventional texture of bread made from slow-rising dough'). I'm guessing the New Style was similar to Wonder Bread, and Old Style more like Hillbilly Bread.
So what kind of bread did my mother buy? I guess the answer would be Deluca Bakery, since it was right there on Oberlin Avenue. Of course, she also shopped at the Nickles Bakery outlet store on W. 21st Street, so she bought whatever they had (including Hillbilly Bread).
I do remember Mom buying Wonder Bread (or something similar) from time to time. We used it to make little dough balls when we were going fishing.
Consolidated Foods of Akron made an interesting decision when it was time to name its new restaurant and motel on Leavitt Road in Amherst in the early 1970s.
Although Consolidated Foods owned both the L&K chain as well as Manners Big Boy, its new restaurant and motel took the name and branding of another chain the firm owned: Lawson’s.
The 1972 city directory listing shown below (with the original L&K Restaurant highlighted) tells the story, with Lawsons Motel Inn motel at 832 Leavitt and Lawson’s Restaurant at 900 Leavitt. (They first appeared in the 1971 edition, however.)
The Cleveland Memory Project website features a postcard with a Lawson’s motel and restaurant. The back of the postcard reads, "LAWSON'S RESTAURANT & MOTELS 16201 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44112,
Phone 216-281-2600;
Restaurants and Motels in Ohio, Motels in Stow, Montrose, North Canton, Amherst
and Macedonia. Swimming pools; Color T.V. and phones in all rooms."
Courtesy Cleveland Memory Project
There was another Lawson’s Restaurant – the first in the chain – on Babbitt Road in Euclid.
The Lawson’s restaurant/motel experiment apparently did not last very long, because by the time of the 1973 Lorain city directory, both properties were rebranded as part of the L&K chain as seen in the listing below (with the original L&K restaurant highlighted).
Thus, there were two L&K restaurants on Leavitt Road within the same quarter mile– the original next to the Marathon station, and the L&K Towne House, home to many club meetings.
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By the mid-1970s, the L&K Motel appears to have taken on a new name, judging from various online newspaper accounts from that time. It was often referred to as the Penny Pincher Motel (or L&K Penny Pincher Motel.)
Commercial development consisting of national restaurant chains continued to thrive along Leavitt Road. Sambo’sopened its Amherst location in the spring of 1977. Below is an ad for the pancake house that ran in the Amherst News-Times on May 5, 1977.
An announcement of the construction of a Bob's Big Boy on Leavitt near the Route 2 interchange ran in the Amherst News-Times on November 10, 1977. And McDonald’s made its appearance at 500 Leavitt Road as the 1970s drew to a close.
Here are two interesting ads from fifty years ago that I didn’t quite have time to post in February. They’re both for the Lawson's Restaurant that was located at 900 N. Leavitt Road in Amherst. The ad above ran in the Journal on Feb. 17, 1971.
About a week later on Feb. 23, 1971 this full-page grand opening ad appeared in the same paper.
I first wrote about how Lawson’s dallied with opening their own restaurants back here. Here’s a promotional postcard showing an unnamed location.
It’s an intriguing concept. But although you might expect the menu to include Dutch Loaf sandwiches with a glass of "Big O" Orange Juice to wash it down, it looks like they had higher culinary aspirations with those char-broiled steak dinners mentioned in the Journal ads.
Nevertheless, the Lawson’s Restaurants apparently didn’t last too long. Within a few years, it was rebranded as L-K Townhouse. Today there’s a Denny’s at the site.
Maybe they should have put Dutch Loaf on the menu, with potato chips on the side and a little bowl of Lawson’s Chip Dip.
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Here’s a photo of the Denny’s at 900 N. Leavitt Road, courtesy of Google Maps.
Back on July 4th, I posted an old Lawson's newspaper ad dating back from 1962. Well, here's an even earlier one announcing that chain's first Lorain store.
It's surprising to me that the first Lorain store was located in the Westgate Shopping Center. I sort of assumed that Lawson's had always built their own stores, especially since you see dozens of the former outlets all over the place in Lorain County. Even my doctor's office is located in a former Lawson's store!
The ad above has a nice little message from J.J. Lawson, the founder of the chain. The ad also reminds me of why the chain was so great: it was centered around quality Lawson's dairy products and other branded items stocked for convenience.
I like the little illustration showing the well-stocked, spacious store with friendly workers and happy customers. I sure wish that scenario still existed today. I find it depressing – and dangerous – to go into just about any convenience store in Cleveland these days.
I still can’t believe some eagle-eyed readers saw that tiny Lawson’s sign in the Sandy’s photo from a few days ago.
Anyway, here’s yet another ad for Lawson’s Dutch Loaf. It ran in the Journal back on May 20, 1968 – 50 years ago this month. (You'd think I was Dutch, judging by how many times that I blog about things with 'Dutch' in the title.)
I posted a similar ad back from 1966 in 2016 here, but with a different sales price.
This newspaper ad is interesting in that it was pretty big – almost 3/4 of a page! And it only features four basic products: bacon, eggs, milk and Dutch Loaf.
That’s a pretty simple marketing plan. But I bet it worked. A lot of Lorainites probably had Dutch Loaf sandwiches that week. Maybe even the Brady Bunch.
Note the special logo commemorating Lawson’s 29th anniversary, celebrating its 1939 founding.
By the way, here’s a link to a good article about how there came to be Lawson’s stores in Hawaii in the last few years, by way of Asia. The article includes a very thorough history of the beloved chain as well.
Fifty years ago, having Lawson’s prepare Thanksgiving dinner was one of the options for families that didn’t want Mom to spend all day in the kitchen.
No, I’m not talking about picking up a sumptuous ready-made feast of Dutch Loaf sandwiches, a bag of chips, a container of Lawson’s Chip Dip and a half-gallon of milk.
I meant going out to enjoy a fine meal at Lawson’s Family Restaurants.
Below is an ad that ran in the Journal back on Nov. 23, 1971.
You might remember that I wrote about the Lawson’s Restaurants back here. The one in our area was located at 900 N. Leavitt Road in Amherst (the same building that Denny’s is in today).
The menu looked pretty good for that 1971 feast: roast turkey with dressing, broasted chicken, baked ham with raisin sauce, deep fried rainbow trout. After all, everybody doesn’t like turkey.
For side dishes: whipped white or baked sweet potatoes; mixed vegetables.
And, of course, your choice of pumpkin pie, apple pie or an ice cream sundae for dessert.
The ad didn’t include an address or phone number, so I hope nobody accidentally made the trek to a regular Lawson’s. They might have had to settle for some turkey loaf sandwiches, washed down with a glass of Big O Orange Juice.
During the fall of 1962, Lawson's took a beating in the newspapers with a lot of bad publicity, thanks to its sponsorship of the ill-fated Issue 1. But that didn't stop the company from continuing to do a lot of advertising in the paper after the election, including this handsome full-age ad for Big-O Orange Juice which ran in the Journal back on December 17, 1962.
For those who only remember Big-O Orange Juice through its memorable commercials featuring a Lawson's tanker truck, the ad provides an opportunity to take a closer look at the whole operation. It's pretty impressive. The ad notes, how "the oranges are picked fresh in the morning... graded, squeezed, flash-chilled, and shipped in refrigerated tankers the same day... here in 40 hours or less!"
The ad also points out that "Lawson's orange juice is absolutely pure – with no concentrate, no coloring, no additives of any kind. And its cost is kept low through the same famous Lawson distribution plan that holds your milk price down: controlled outlets, fast delivery, glass containers, high volume, quick turnover!"
It's a great advertising campaign that in my opinion has no equal, even sixty years later.
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Although we drank Lawson's milk when I was a kid, I don't think that we ever had Big-O orange juice in the Brady household. Orange juice was something we had only on Sunday morning, along with perhaps a Hough Bakery kuchen or Sara Lee coffee cake that had to be thawed out.
The orange juice had to be thawed out as well, as it was always from frozen concentrate – usually Tropicana, never Minute Maid (which is what Bing Crosby and his clan were always drinking on TV commercials).
My parents didn't start drinking orange juice every day until I came home from college. The tales I told them about my working in the dormitory cafeteria, refilling the beverage machines (including orange juice) and lugging around huge bags of liquids, must have planted the idea. And I've been drinking orange juice every day ever since, including at breakfast as well as during the evening (when I'm out of pop).
Lawson's opened its first store in Lorain (in the Westgate Shopping Center) back in June 1959, but it took another four years before it made it out to my current city, Vermilion. Above is the ad announcing the Grand Opening of the store on W. Liberty St. (the old 6 & 2) that ran in the Journal back on August 21, 1963.
The ad is kind of hilarious, with the boisterous crowd celebrating by tossing hats in the air.
It's pretty amazing just how ubiquitous Lawson's was at that time in Lorain and the surrounding areas. There were stores on Grove Avenue, W. 21st Street, E. Lake Road in Sheffield Lake, Oberlin Avenue, Vine Avenue, two on North Ridge Road, Pearl Avenue, Cleveland Avenue in Amherst, G Street and Kansas Avenue.
Since it was so easy and reasonably cheap to pick up a gallon of milk from Lawson's, it's not that surprising that the local dairies – seeing their home delivery dollars go down the drain – would eventually close or sell out.
Home Dairy lasted longer than I expected. While cleaning out my mother's house late last year, the estate sale company discovered a collection of Brady checkbook registers from the early 1970s. Mom was still writing checks to Home Dairy in the spring of 1972, about $10 every week or two. I guess my siblings and I went through a lot of milk, between guzzling it and pouring it on cereal.
Anyway, it's a source of amusement in Northeast Ohio just how many former Lawson's store buildings survived and are repurposed. They seem to be everywhere. Some have had drastic makeovers that hide their convenient store roots, like this one at the end of Oberlin Avenue at Cooper Foster Park.
Others (like this one in Vermilion) still look like it wasn't that long ago that you could go in there and get some chipped chopped ham and "Big O" Orange Juice.
And this one (located on Cooper Foster Park in Amherst) seems to have grown organically.
Fall is my favorite time of year. The fall foliage in Lorain County has been really nice lately (although I haven't had much time to go out and enjoy it, beyond what I see on the way home from work).
I also love the whole autumn ritual of heading out in the country and buying bags of apples from the people who grew them, as well as half-gallons of their fresh cider. I've already had some terrific apples and cider from Miller Orchards, and I just picked up some Honeycrisp cider made by Burnham Orchards. It was pricey, but I'm looking forward to trying it.
Speaking of cider, that particular seasonal beverage is the focus of this ad for Lawson's that ran in the Journal back on October 5, 1962 – sixty years ago.
The ad copy notes that the cider was "rich with the juice of Baldwin, Winesap and Delicious apples from Ohio's orchards," and that Lawson's was picking it up "fresh at nearby cider mills, bottling it in our Dairy plant, and rushing it to our stores – keeping every jug constantly chilled to protect that country-fresh flavor."
At least it sounds like Lawson's was selling Ohio cider. I won't even consider buying Giant Eagle brand cider, even though it's probably regional product (since Giant Eagle is based in Pennsylvania).
We have a lot of orchards selling cider around Lorain County, and last year I probably tried them all (Rex Gees, Hillcrest, Burnham, Miller, etc.). I won't say which was my favorite, but they were all good – and I counted 6 or 7 cider empty jugs under my sink by the time Christmas rolled around.
Here's a cute, timeless ad for Lawson's that ran in the Lorain Journal on October 27, 1959 – just a few days before Halloween – 55 years ago today.
As noted back here, the first Lawson's in Lorain opened in June of 1959.
I love the simplicity of the above ad. Back then, stores designed their ads to feature just a few items to get you to visit. You can tell at a glance what's going on. The small ads in today's newspapers are so cluttered and over designed, with tiny type reversed out of black (can you tell I'm a graphic designer?) that they don't have half the selling power of the Lawson's ad.
That kid in the bunny suit looks kinda like Ralphie from A Christmas Story – except he isn't wearing spectacles.
Then as now, Brach's candy is still the dominant brand of classic candy corn. (I've already munched my way through 1/2 a bag!)
A few days before Memorial Day 1962, this ad for Lawson's – almost a full page in size – ran in the May 25 Lorain Journal. Besides promoting a special on half-gallons of ice cream for 49 cents, it also mentions that it's the convenience store's 23rd anniversary.
The ad is attractively designed – uncluttered and with appealing typography. The clip art of the woman is a nice touch too. (Hey, me spouse just bought some specs that look like that – really!)
Chief Wahoo is in the ad too, to stress the fact that you could purchase Indians tickets at Lawson's and earn some free milk.
No mention of Big O Orange Juice. Perhaps it wasn't really marketed that way until later. No chipped chopped ham, either – our favorite lunch meat from Lawson's! But there's plenty of hearty and healthy summer cookout fare, like wieners, buns and popsicles.
The fine type lists some weird brands: Spunky Dog Food, Tops Nuts, Kenny Pork & Beans, Kenny Stuffed Olives, Kenny Kosher Dills (by George, that Kenny made everything), Ocoma Turkey Dinner, etc.
At least they have at least one fine Canadian product listed, although its spelling seems mangled: Dares Petite Buerre Cookies.
Anyway, here's hoping you have a great Memorial Day!
The mention of Lawson's always conjures up pleasant memories for those of us that shopped there. So it's no surprise that the regional convenience store chain conveniently pops up on this blog regularly. Its ads were always well done and designed with a theme appropriate to the season.
Above is a particularly handsome ad that ran in the Journal on October 28, 1964. I like the various type fonts and the ad has great nostalgic appeal. It really puts you in the mood for cider and donuts.
(I even had to go get a glass of cider out of the fridge while preparing this post. It's Honeycrisp Cider from Burnham Orchards on Route 113. Very tasty.)
It's funny how so many of us have fond memories of Lawson's, as well as Convenient Food Mart out of Elyria. Both chains maintained a high degree of quality, with clean, well-stocked stores. I really liked the Sunshine Farms milk sold at Convenient.
Open Pantry was another local chain, but it didn't have the same allure as the other two.
Today, it's somewhat depressing going into most convenient stores, even 7-Elevens. You feel like you'd have to be nuts to buy anything to eat there. They seem to exist just to sell alcohol and lottery tickets. No chipped, chopped ham or Dutch Loaf there.
Lawson's convenience stores has been a favorite topic on this blog, amassing twenty posts over the last 16 years. We all have our favorite memories of the ubiquitous store chain, including its Big-O Orange Juice, its famous Lawson's Chip Dip, and the great selection of lunch meat (such as chipped chopped ham, dutch loaf, etc.) available in the well-stocked, well-lit stores.
We each have our own favorite location that we frequented as well. For the Bradys, it was the one on Oberlin Avenue near W. 30th Street – where we might would stop if we needed some lunch meat in between our weekly grocery shopping trips. But no matter which location you went to, you could be assured of a clean store with quality items on its shelves.
I've posted some grand openings of specific stores before, and here's another one: the store at 1426 Oberlin Avenue, right across from the Lorain Creamery. The ad at the top of this post appeared in the Journal on April 1, 1965.
It was kind of an aggressive move, locating a store specializing in milk right across from a hometown dairy. But most of the popular items that the convenience store carried weren't available at the Creamery anyway.
The Lawson's chain was later acquired by Dairy Mart, and it appears that the store at 1426 Oberlin Avenue was involved. But at some point – either when the store possibly decided to end its affiliation with the chain, or when Dairy Mart was closing a massive number of stores during its bankruptcy – the store became Daily Mart.
Hey, at least the new name fit on the existing Dairy Mart sign perfectly.
Convenience stores hastened the demise of the local dairies in the 1960s. After all, why wait for milk to be delivered (and left outside in all sorts of weather) when you could pick it up at your own convenience, along with other things you might need, like lunch meat and chips?
Thus, chains such as Lawson’s, 7-Eleven, and Open Pantry served a need, and did it with clean, well-lit and well-stocked stores that stayed open late.
Convenient Food Mart is another regional chain that – unlike some of its 1960s competitors – is still around. Above is a large ad that ran in the Lorain Journal on May 5, 1967.
The corporate website reveals the company history. It notes, "William J. Bresler and Walter R. Schaub founded Convenient
Food Mart, one of the first and one of the best convenience store chains, in
Chicago in 1958. Their idea was to provide customers a supermarket in
miniature, which would be located in the customer’s neighborhood and perhaps
owned by one of the neighbors. The new store they envisioned would be open
seven days a week, from early morning until late at night or 24 hours a day.
"This concept was launched in the nation’s heartland and
immediately proved successful.”
In Lorain County, the local Convenient Food Marts had their roots in an Elyria dairy. As noted here on the website, "The original Company had its beginning in the year 1911,
when Edward Seabold Sr. began delivering milk to homes on the West Side of
Elyria. The milk came from the family farm on Telegraph Road.
Ten-gallon cans were carried on a horse drawn wagon and milk was hand dipped at
each home into the customer’s container. Delivery was made twice a day,
due to the absence of refrigeration and pasteurization. The business was
then known as Seabold Dairy.
"A few years later, the operation was moved to Lake Avenue
(now called North Gateway Boulevard) on the same land where the present Company
headquarters are located.
"In 1919, Edward was joined in the growing business by his
brother, Carl. The business was incorporated in 1932 as Elyria Dairies,
Inc., and the trade name “Sunshine Farms Dairy” was created.
To develop an additional market for Sunshine Farms Dairy
products, the Seabold brothers formed North Central Ohio Convenient Food Mart,
Inc. in 1964, and acquired the franchise for Convenient Food Mart stores. Convenient Food Mart opened its first store on July 12th, 1965 in Lorain, Ohio."
Even though the 1967 ad lists Hills Brothers Coffee (my parents’ favorite), I don’t think we ever shopped at Convenient Food Mart. The closest store to us was on Leavitt Road, near W. 21st Street. It was more convenient to visit the Lawson’s on Oberlin Avenue to pick up things we needed (such as dutch loaf).
At least Convenient Food Mart had something that neither Lawson’s or Open Pantry had: an advertising mascot – the customer who is king!
Back in November on this blog, I featured the Jerzee Moo Cow Creamer – a cow-shaped container that the Ohio-based Defiance Milk Products distributed as a promotional item in the fall of 1972.
While the idea of pouring milk out of a cow's mouth might be udderly disgusting to some, Lawson's must have thought it was a good idea. Why else would they come up with the Krazy Kow Karton, a carton with little fold out ears and horns, for their chocolate flavored skim milk?
The ad below (from the January 17, 1973 Journal) shows a disembodied hand (not unlike the Thing on The Addams Family TV show) pouring the Krazy Kow Karton.
I can't tell if the little boy in the ad is giddy with excitement, or ready to barf.
Anyway, a quick search on the internet reveals that apparently none of these things still exist, fifty years later. It's not hard to understand why, since it's the thing that nightmares are made of.
Yes, if I have to remember a Lawson's milk carton, I'd much rather think of this non-bovine one, (courtesy of Worthpoint.com). It's like an old friend.
Lawson's has been a favorite topic on this blog. It was the first of the convenience stores in our area (opening in Lorain in 1959), and the former stores – easy to recognize thanks to the chain's distinctive architecture – will continue to haunt the streetscape of Lorain County for years to come.
But sixty years ago, Lawson's was still in its early days here, and it advertised plenty in the Journal. Above is a full-page ad that ran in the paper on July 2, 1962.
I like the serene scene of the young nuclear family on a pic-a-nic. There are the two children – one boy, one girl per government specifications – and Junior has on the striped shirt that was so popular back then. Even Charlie Brown's pal Linus wore one.
Mom looks like a young Grace Kelly.
And we get yet another Cleveland Indians ticket outlet. You could pick up your Tribe tickets and some Budget-Pak Ice Cream at the same time.
As a Lorain West Sider, I didn't get out to South Lorain too muc, except for when my mother took us shopping at Hill's Department Store or Pic-way Shoe Mart. But I'm sure you old-timers from that part of town will remember the store in the ad above: Super Kream.
The ice cream stand was located on the northeast corner of Grove Ave. (Route 57) and E. 31st Street, and had its Grand Opening exactly 59 years ago today.
According to the city directories, it seemed to survive at 3029 Grove Avenue until around 1966, when it apparently became Hanna's Drive-in. But the following year, it appears that a brand new Lawson's replaced it.
The Lawson's store and a Sohio service station co-existed on that corner until the 1990s. By then, the Lawson's had become a Dairy Mart. But the Dairy Mart disappeared from the directory after its address was listed as a 'no return' in 1992 and as 'not verified' in the 1993 book.
Today a massive BP station and store sit on the spot with no evidence that Super Kream ever was there. But I'm sure Super Kream lives on in the memories of the neighborhood kids who enjoyed the refreshing treats served up there from 1954 to 1965 or so.
I'm guessing Super Kream was located just north of the current BP station at Grove and E. 31st
