National Museum of American History
Supermarkets: Fifty Years
August 15, 1980 – October 13, 1980
This case features a 1937 Goldman Supermarket Cart (patented 1938), filled with 1930s grocery packages from the Smithsonian collections. Also displayed are photographs (from Progressive Grocer magazine) of supermarkets in the 1930s, when the supermarket concept flourished.
