1961
HGO-01-001-F-H-2
GUSN-362372
This 1961 image by Ames Photo Service depicts a street view of Promisel's Food Mart and a neighboring laundromat located on Blue Hill Ave in Dorchester, Mass.
This building is extant but has been altered; it is now the site of Greater Victory Temple Church.
grocery stores
laundries (businesses)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
1 photograph; 8 x 10 inches
PC001
General photographic collection
2019
PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0100.003
Library & Archives Purchase
May 21, 1961
8 x 10 (HxW)(inches)
Mattapan (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Ames Photo Service (Photographic studio)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
Ames Photo Service
Item
HGO-01-001-F-H-2
Sophia Cos, Assistant Archivist, October 2023.
DACS 2nd edition
Promisel's Food Mart operated at this location on Blue Hill Ave from at least 1955 until 1965, whereon it closed following the owner's death. Promisel's was owned and operated by John Promisel, who inherited the grocery store (previously located elsewhere in Dorchester) from his father Louis. Louis and his wife Lena were both Jewish immigrants from what is now Ukraine, and John served in World War I.
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