Our history and memories of the Bohack Grocery stores echos many familiar thoughts and stories we shared in our recent A&P article. One of the most interesting aspects we encountered after publishing the A&P article was how many comments we received from people asking,”what about Bohacks?” The Bohack Grocery stores were ingrained in the lives of New Yorkers of the 20th century. As a former grocery store worker who experienced watching the same people shop every day, I learned the sense of community that grocery stores like A&P and Bohack’s had on neighborhoods. There was not a day that went by in the three years that I worked in a grocery store that someone did not mention Bohack’s. There was no other store that people liked to talk about more than Bohack’s. The question was why? What was it about Bohack’s that people loved and could not forget?

https://classicnewyorkhistory.com/history-and-memories-of-bohacks-grocery-stores/

PICTURE:  By Dumbodude - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33091375

Sources:

Marzlock, R. (2018, June 14). The immigrant behind the once-huge Bohack chain. Retrieved June 17, 2020, from https://www.qchron.com/qboro/i_have_often_walked/the-immigrant-behind-the-once-huge-bohack-chain/article_62d11c6d-532c-51c8-b99b-ab5119c4dbe2.html

Jill. (1970, January 01). Bohacks. Retrieved June 17, 2020, from http://mingum.blogspot.com/2010/01/bohacks.html

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