Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, Wakefield, Mass.

Title

First National Store, March 23, 1934

Description

The First National Store at 432 Main Street was one of eight markets that served the Town in 1934, the others being Reid's Market, 77 Albion Street; Railroad Market, across from the upper railroad station; City Hall Market, 6 Water Street; Sperbers Market, 14 Water Street (which advertised that it sold full-strength beer and wine); Quality Grocers, 87-89 Albion Street; McCarthy's Market, 412 Main Street, Wakefield Fish Market, 3 Mechanic Street; and Orde's Fish Market, 109A Albion Street. First National, known by its acronym Finast and 'The First National', was incorporated as the Ginter Company in 1917. It changed its name to First National Stores, Inc. in 1925 when it was consolidated with the John T. Connor Company and O'Keeffe's, Inc. Finast was a retail supermarket brand that existed in the northeastern United States until being absorbed by Edwards and its Dutch parent Royal Ahold in the mid-1990s. Finast was originally based in Somerville, prior to its change to the Edwards name. The base was then moved to Windsor Locks, Connecticut.

Image from the Wakefield Municipal Gas and Light Department annual calendar, 2013

Photo courtesy of Wakefield Un-Common Antiques

Contributor

Institution: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library

Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department (Wakefield, Mass.)

D'Onofrio, Jayne M.

Coverage

Massachusetts--Middlesex (county)--Wakefield

Date

03-23-1934

Format

image/jpeg

Publisher

Wakefield, Mass. : Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department

Subject

Stores, retail

First National Store (Wakefield, Mass.)

Type

still image

Photographs

Original Format

1 picture: b & w

Extent

31 x 18 cm.