While cleaning out the basement…
This line could lead to many stories if your basement looks like mine. This is my latest discovery…a grocery bag from Mount Tabor Food Market. This bag lists two other stores owned by the Lanier family, but we shopped at Mount Tabor, so the bag is from the store on Robin Hood Road.
The first Mount Tabor grocery store that I remember was located on Robin Hood Road, between the Polo Road and Peace Haven Road intersections (building shown above in 1965). It was also across the street from the Robin Hood Drive-In. The small store expanded in that space and eventually moved to a location beyond the Peace Haven Road intersection. And, it expanded in that space as well. The independent grocery store closed in 1994.
The photo above shows the grocery store when it closed in 1994. I always loved their slogan: “Low prices are born here…and raised elsewhere.” Even at the time of their closing, the clerks put the prices in the registers. They did not have grocery item (UPC) scanning.
The space was later redeveloped when a CVS, Starbucks, and RBC Centura were built on this property. A cut-through was made that leads to the Fresh Market and a group of businesses that includes 5 Guys and Subway.
If you’re curious about what was in the grocery bag, it contained a group of vintage puzzles, such as the Raggedy Ann puzzle shown above. Other puzzles in the group are Uncle Wiggily, Gunsmoke, and others that I’ll have to put together to determine their identities.
Color photographs by Molly Grogan Rawls. Black and white photograph courtesy of Forsyth County Public Library Photograph Collection.
Molly , All I can say is bless you for your thoughts and photos of Mt. Tabor food market. I worked there in the 1980’s. Now I am an old man Grandfather and all but then I was in my 20’s young with my eyes open and full of promise for the future. Mt tabor was a Hugh store with a basement just as big as the store on ground level. Lee Campbell, Wayne Bates were the managers . We had a great team , Had pop machines that gave coke/cola 16 oz bottles and we priced every product with a price gun. UPC code/did not exist, :LOL
Thank you for your comments. I’m glad that the photo and post recalled good memories for you!
Love the pics and memories. My dad, Joe Davis, was meat dept. manager there and at Grandview for 37 years.
I delivered Canada Dry products to them,all three stores.I loved Mt. Tabor,they bought a ton,busiest Grocery store in town.I remember the name Wayne Bates,they were all such nice people!!
The Laniers owned it. I went to school with their son named Carl Went to Old Town, Speas, Northwest, North and Mt. Tabor schools! From 56 to 68!
I remember in 1970s early 80s that single people called it the Singles grocery store because men and women would meet there and men would strike up a conversation and ask for our phone numbers. The first time I went there as a divorced 30 year old, I was laughing about it and a guy pal told me it was the Singles Grocery store.
i worked there in the late seventies.and remember the bates brothers.scott flynn and a few others.those where the good days.