Until the early 20th century, grocery stores weren't self-service; customers would provide their shopping lists to a clerk, who would gather the goods. When Buckley's first opened its doors, the business model must still have been novel enough to receive second billing. That, and the typefaces, suggest the 1920s, or perhaps the early 1930s, when this much more ambitious self-service store whirred into action.
Buckley's Self-Service Market
251 Nassau Ave. (Monitor St.-Kingsland Ave.), Greenpoint, Brooklyn
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