What Salem Businesses Do You Miss?

Salem, MA- Businesses open and close, but the impression they leave on a community can last long after they board up their doors.

Has your favorite venue vanished from Salem? If you’re missing an old hardware store, bakery or mom-and-pop shop, you’re in good company.

We asked Patch Readers in Salem, what extinct local business they’d bring back from the dead. Here’s a list of one-time favorites:

• “Touraines, Bernards, Daniel Low, Almys, Kennedys Butter & Egg, Empire, L.H. Rogers. ....I could go on!”

• “Chase House, original Roosevelts, Red Room, Dodge Street Bar + Grill (jazz Sunday days)“

• “Gentlemen’s choice barber shop”

• “Tiki Kai, I really miss it!”

• “Almys, it was a great store.”

• “Putnam pantry, the bookstore in the mall.”

• “Strega...such a fun atmosphere.”

• “The Parker Brothers factory!”

• “Bowmans and Athens Bakeries.”

Is your choice business not on the list? Add it in the comments below or on our Salem Patch Facebook page.