[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by HenryHuntington

Wow, CityBoyDoug, the Man from Mars article you linked really brought back memories! My parents did their grocery shopping at that Boys Market when we lived in Rosemead 1950-54.

And while I'm here, I found this link on Crawford's El Monte for ER:

http://crawfordselmonte.blogspot.com/

We'd occasionally shop there as well.

Henry.....Everyone was really spooked when we heard about the robberies. It gave us kids visions of how crazy the world can be. It was very unsettling. I went to McKinley school which was just several blocks from the Boy's Market [which is now the Hawaii Asian Supermarket].

My father didn't shop at Crawford's, he preferred more modern stores such as Von's. The Crawford's stores were very old fashioned and definitely ''country''. I'd go to Crawford's occasionally because I liked their magazine section.