Comments on: Buy a Steak…or a Steer! Smith’s Deli https://clintonvillehistory.com/buy-a-steak-or-a-steer-smiths-deli/ Mon, 17 Jun 2024 19:49:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Bill https://clintonvillehistory.com/buy-a-steak-or-a-steer-smiths-deli/#comment-319 Mon, 17 Jun 2024 19:49:11 +0000 https://clintonvillehistory.com/?p=8018#comment-319 By the way, I believe that photo of the Smith’s frontage that Eric Hartzell estimates is from the mid-’60s may actually be from the early 1970s. Of the three cars parked in the adjacent lot facing the Smith’s building, the middle one has a front headlight and grill profile that I recall from an early ’70s model (e.g., a 1970 Ford Pinto.)

]]> By: Bill https://clintonvillehistory.com/buy-a-steak-or-a-steer-smiths-deli/#comment-318 Mon, 17 Jun 2024 19:35:29 +0000 https://clintonvillehistory.com/?p=8018#comment-318 That banner sign on the front of Smith’s and the sign on the post out front are exactly as I remember them from the mid-to-late 1970s growing up nearby on Acton Road.

I delivered The Booster on Amazon Place every Wednesday afternoon from 1975-78 (4th through 6th grade) but my route extended to the stretch of High Street between Hollenback Drive and Erie (including that Harris Opticians location around the corner on the alley.) Smith’s was a regular weekly stop. During the summer I’d occasionally purchase a cold drink there during my rounds and, in later years, a deli sandwich or sub.

Seeing that old signage summons fond memories of Smith’s and all those old buildings along that stretch of High Street.

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