Wallet Card at a Waldbaum's that burned down 60 years ago

 

Waldbaum's was a major Long Island supermarket chain that went bankrupt in 2015, the same year I started doing wallet cards. There are still plenty of Waldbaum's remnants that felt too new to include as wallet card entries. 

This one is more interesting, though. I had passed by this strip of stores on Broadway in Hewlett, NY hundreds of times without noticing the back. It's pretty faded but the WALDBAUM'S is still fairly legible. It took a fair amount of internet detective work to figure out that this Waldbaum's was destroyed by fire in 1965. A New York Times article mentioned that it was "suspicious". Articles from other more local papers are behind paywalls, but I wonder if it's suspicious that another, larger Waldbaum's had been opened in the same town a few years earlier? Whatever is the case, it's cool that this sign survived a big fire and still is visible 60 years later.