Hill's Food Stores

Hill's Food Stores (operated by the Hill Grocery Company, later Hills Super Market) was a chain of grocery stores founded in Birmingham in 1911.

The chain was marketed alongside Piggly Wiggly in the 1930s.

Golden Flake potato chips were created by Magic City Foods, located in the basement of the original Hill's.

In the early 1960s, the company's offices moved to the former Continental Gin Company building, renamed the Hill Building at 4500 5th Avenue South. Shortly afterward, though, the chain was bought by Jacksonville, Florida-based Winn-Dixie. Initially the stores kept their names, selling Winn-Dixie meat and other products under the Hill's nameplate. By the end of the decade the transition to all Winn-Dixie Supermarkets was completed.

Locations

Interior of the Five Points South store in 1949. Photograph by Charles Preston

• "Big Store", 408-410 20th Street South (before 1914)
  • 430 20th Street South (1941)
• "No. 2", 410 24th Street North (before 1914)
• "No. 3", 1004 19th Street North (before 1914)
• "No. 4", 731 15th Street South (before 1914)
• "No. 5", 1200 Cotton Avenue, Westfield (before 1914)
• "No. 6", 1130 Avenue F Ensley (before 1914)
• Clairmont Avenue
• "No. 71", 5401-5403 1st Avenue North, Woodlawn (July 14, 1922)
• 1323 Vanderbilt Road (1926)
• 4829 5th Avenue South (1926)
• "No. 75", 5004 4th Avenue North (November 1927)
• "No. 179", 207 Walnut Street (November 1927)
• 2109 2nd Avenue North (1929)
• 1909 14th Avenue North in Fountain Heights
• 3927 Vanderbilt Road (1941)
• 1016 20th Street South (Five Points South), 1940s
• 3000 Montgomery Highway (U.S. Highway 31) in Homewood (opened January 20, 1949, now Piggly Wiggly)
• 2600 31st Avenue North at 26th Street, North Birmingham, opened April 21, 1949
• 8500 block of 1st Avenue North in East Lake, opened 1949
• 2 Cotton Avenue, Arlington-West End (opened January 19, 1950)
• 1100 24th Street North (Norwood) - opened June 27, 1957
• Hueytown Road (Hueytown) - opened August 20, 1959
• U.S. Highway 78 at Heflin Road in Forestdale - opened August 25, 1960
• 4505 5th Avenue South, 1960s
• Eastwood Mall
• 2806 18th Street South
• 1120 Oxmoor Road, Edgewood (later Dawson Memorial Baptist Church Recreation Center, now a parking deck)
• East Side Square, Huntsville
• Jasper
• 200 Spring Street in Avondale
• 2807 Cahaba Road, Mountain Brook Village
• 851 Park Road, Pleasant Grove (now Hill's Foodland)
• Main bakery: 2200 Magnolia Avenue, 1923

External links

• Hill's Food Stores at Birmingham Rewound