Model Market

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1. 1923 John T. Fowler buys the Model Market at auction After Sam Pickard died, John T. Fowler bought his Model Market at auction. Fowler's sons enlarged it after 1925, and Robert L. Fowler later moved it across the street. People: Robert Lee Fowler Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 219
2. May 28-30, 1932 The Fowler brothers move the Model Market across Franklin Street into a new building Robert L. Fowler and his brother James built a one-story brick store on the old Guthrie place near the Hill Bakery, on the south side of the street. They carried their stock across after closing on Saturday night, May 28, 1932, and opened there on Monday, May 30, with a grand opening on June 4. People: Robert Lee Fowler Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 243 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, April 8, 1932, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, May 27, 1932, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, June 3, 1932, p. 1
3. July 12, 1933 Chapel Hill's aldermen order the grocery stores to stay closed on Sundays The board of aldermen voted to order Chapel Hill's grocery stores not to open on Sundays, ending the two Sunday-morning hours the Model Market had kept and the Sunday trade of another grocery toward the west end of Franklin Street. The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 14, 1933, p. 1
4. late January 1942 Chapel Hill grocers limit sugar sales after a buying rush A run on sugar that began about January 22 led Chapel Hill grocers to limit each customer, the A. & P. to two pounds and Pender's store to a pound for every dollar of other groceries, after the Model Market had sold 2,000 pounds on Saturday, January 24. Grocers told the Weekly they would welcome Government rationing; in February the Office of Price Administration approved Pender's plan until ration cards were issued. The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 30, 1942, p. 1
5. June 23, 1942 Chapel Hill's Model Market closes for lack of help and tires The Model Market, a charge-and-delivery grocery with eighteen employees, failed to open one morning, its owners James S. Fowler and J. F. Byrd posting a notice that they were closing, perhaps for the duration of the war, because of the shortage of help and tires. Fowler said drafted and departing workers had left him working seventeen hours a day; his brother Robert Fowler bought the stock and fixtures to reopen a store on the same site. People: Robert Lee Fowler The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 26, 1942, p. 1
6. July 23, 1942 Fowler's Food Store opens in the old Model Market building Robert Fowler opened a self-service grocery and meat market in the building the Model Market had vacated, selling on a cash-and-carry basis with a telephone order, charge and delivery service at a small markup. Most of its clerks had worked for the Model Market. People: Robert Lee Fowler The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 24, 1942, p. 1

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