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Eldon "Casey"
Casebeer purchased Glenn Langford's little fruit stand on the corner of
North Main and East Kelsey in Bloomington in 1949. "I know it's small, but I can make
something of it," Casey told his wife, Alice.
And so he did. The little fruit stand
quickly became Casey's Market Basket, the city's first
around-the-clock, seven-days-a-week grocery. Over the years, the store
grew and became known for its cold watermelons and beautiful holiday
fruit
baskets, but from the start Casey's pioneered the convenience model,
serving second and third shift workers and Sunday customers long before
other stores began doing the same.
Do you have recollections of Casey's
or any other of the many locally owned grocery stores that existed
throughout the county? What about the early supermarkets that became
established here and how they affected food shopping? Your memories are
the stuff of history, and we would greatly appreciate it if you would
share them with us.
Robert Dirks
Guest Curator
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