A family-size “fruit cake” cost $1.19 at Klein’s.

Several supermarket chains came and went in my part of Richfield in the 1960s and ’70s, among them Red Owl, Piggly Wiggly and Kroger. I don’t remember Klein’s, which had at least six stores in the Minneapolis area, including one at the Hub at 66th and Nicollet, as late as 1958. Photos in the Minnesota Historical Society’s online collection suggest that Klein’s stores were clean, well-lit, spacious and organized. Which is surprising, considering the quality of the artwork and writing in a double-truck Klein’s ad that appeared in the Minneapolis Star 50 years ago. Don Draper would be appalled.

TRADITIONAL OLD-TIME PRE-THANKSGIVING SALE

REMEMBER ….

When you were a youngster (Like this young lady [below]) … you wanted the drumstick or maybe a wing or a thigh … chances were you didn’t always get your favorite piece.

TODAY ….

Klein’s makes it possible for you to serve not only the whole chicken, but you can select the extra parts that your family likes most of all. That’s what makes dinner time pleasure time. So when you shop this weekend, pick out the separate pieces that your family likes most of all … until you serve Klein’s golden fryers you’ll never know how wonderful fried chicken can be.

What is that supposed to be in this poorly drawn girl’s poorly drawn hand, a charred coelacanth?

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