What happened to spags in Worcester?

Spag’s was sold to Building 19 in 2002 and briefly kept it’s name until the discount store dropped it in 2004. It operated as a Building 19 at the same location until 2013, when the company went bankrupt. Since then, it has been an antiques depot.

When did Spags go out of business?

Spag’s

What was spags real name?

The real story, however, is not the store itself but the man behind it — Anthony “Spag” Borgatti who opened the Shrewsbury Battery and Tire Service in 1934. Born in 1916 into a family who owned a spa called the Venice Emporium, he came by his retailing instincts naturally by working in the store starting at age six.

Who owned Spags?

Jerry Ellis
“After he died, one of his three daughters, Jean Borgatti, a Clark University anthropology professor, tried to run the business with the help of an outside business consultant. Eventually, she and her two sisters sold the business in 2004 to Jerry Ellis, founder of Building 19, whose mentor was Spag.”

What is the meaning of SPaG?

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Is Spag an insult?

Noun. (slang, pejorative, offensive) A stupid person.

What is Spag Bol in slang?

spag bol (usually uncountable, plural spag bols) (slang) spaghetti bolognese.

What does spags mean?

1. / (spæɡ) / verb spags, spagging or spagged. (tr) South Wales dialect (of a cat) to scratch (a person) with the claws.

What is Spag Bog?

Spag bog by any name would be a great pasta sauce. Basically a ground beef (mince, if we are sticking to U.K. parlance) and tomato sauce, there are probably almost as many versions as there are folks who make it.

What is Spag Bol in uglies?

History. In Uglies, Dr. Cable gives Tally Youngblood two weeks worth of SpagBol, the freeze-dried spaghetti Bolognese, when she escapes to the Smoke. Tally soon develops a strong dislike to SpagBol.

Is Spag an offensive word?

In this context, SPAG is typically used as a light-hearted reprimand by older people who are not comfortable with the complete disregard for “Spelling, Punctuation And Grammar” usually displayed by younger people when using text-based communications.

Why is it called Spag Bog?

According to The Times (UK), it has been called both bog and bol in England since the 1970s when Spaghetti Bolognese arrived in that country. The Times opines that the Brits were afraid to attempt to spell or pronounce it, so they shortened it to something more manageable for the English-speaking tongue.

What happened to Spag’s 19 in Massachusetts?

A second Spag’s store operated from late 1999 until the end of 2001 in Springfield, Massachusetts. When Spag died in 1996, his daughters took over until 2002, when they sold it to Building 19. The location became Spag’s 19, and in September 2004 Building 19 owner Jerry Ellis said the store was not profitable in its current format.

What kind of store is SPAG’s?

Spag’s was, from 1934 to 2004, a discount department store on Route 9 in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. The store was considered an early pioneer of discount retailing and was notable for its longtime resistance to accepting charge cards (until 1992), offering plastic shopping bags (late 1996), and shopping carts (introduced in 1998).

What is SPAG’s mentality?

The term “Spag’s mentality” was coined to describe the thrifty mindset found among the store’s customers. Depending on the context it is used in, it can carry a positive or negative connotation. One example of the Spag’s mentality is the sheer number of shoppers that would visit for the store’s annual spring tomato seedling giveaway.

How many seedlings did SPAG’s give away?

Beginning in 1957, the store would give 25 tomato seedlings to visitors; in 1985, the store gave away one million seedlings. The prices of many goods at Spag’s were written on them in indelible black Magic Marker, and another aspect of the Spag’s mentality was to display the handwritten price proudly, as proof of one’s resourcefulness as a shopper.