- Dates
- 1985-08-12 – 1985-08-18
- Kind
- Opening
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Carried out by
- McDonough's General Store
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- commercecommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
McDonough’s Market held the grand opening of a new larger supermarket next to its old Beaver Island store during the week beginning August 12, 1985. The new store featured expanded aisles, a meat counter, sales, giveaways, and community refreshments.
Evidence limits
This is a contemporary newspaper opening account, not a license, deed, inventory, or financial statement.
Sources
- Reports the week beginning August 12 grand opening of a new large supermarket next to the old McDonough’s Market, with giveaways, sales, cake, and quarter-price hot-dog and pop lunches; it describes a meat counter and six or seven aisles. It is a newspaper opening account, not a business license, deed, inventory, or financial statement. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1985-08_Beaver-Beacon
- The held eighteen-page August–September combined issue PDF, filed canonically as August 1985, is paired with the remote OCR and confirms the market opening account.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1985-08_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “McDonough’s Market opens its new Beaver Island supermarket, 1985”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-mcdonough-market-grand-opening-1985/, accessed [date], citing Grand Opening, Beaver Beacon, August–September 1985 (combined issue filed as August). (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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