A friend in California who used to live around here forwarded an email to me that he received from someone else about Packard's:
"I was in the Packard's store a number of times because Butch worked there for about 8 yrs when Kings Supermarket owned the store inside. The two towers was the transmitter for the first broadcast radio station in the NYC metro area and the Packard's store was one of the first "supermarket" style grocery stores in the country. One of the members of the Packard family was actress, Lee Remick(remember her?)."
Aside from the part about "Butch", is everything else true? I don't think I've heard that about the towers before.
(Lee Remick was a babe!)