Dear of troy: When I was a kid, drugstores sold more milkshakes,frappes, and sodas than drugs.Plus all kinds of candies but packaged. For bulk candy, it was the dime store.
Delis had specialty things: cheesecake, pastrami,lox and bagels. plus sliced meats and cheeses for sandwiches, which the grocery stores then did not have. Amd food took a bigger part of your income then. Young people were told to expect to budget a quarter of their income for food You simply could not buy chicken as good as rotisserie chicken then. I am amazed to be able to buy a rotisserie chicken for an hour's minimum wage. Think of the hours required to raise the grain, raise the chickens, dress them, and cook them. The standard of living now if far higher than it was when I was a kid.