{"id":199821,"date":"1969-07-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"1969-07-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/?p=199821"},"modified":"2026-10-08T22:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:57:07","slug":"onninks-new-shop-barlo-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/onninks-new-shop-barlo-1969\/","title":{"rendered":"Onnink\u2019s new shop in Barlo (1969)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In 1969, a new Onnink shop opened in Barlo. The opening was captured on film. The footage recalls a time when a local grocer did more than sell food: the shop also served a practical and social role for the rural district.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A grocer in Barlo<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The shop stood at what is now Markerinkdijk 24. In Aalten\u2019s 1967 address book the location was still recorded as Barlo 86\/1. H.A. Onnink is recorded by Old Aalten as a resident of the shop premises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The business traded as VIVO and later as Super Onnink. In the post-war years, shops like this were important to residents of the rural districts around Aalten. Everyday groceries could be bought close to home, at a time when car ownership was far from universal and larger supermarkets were developing mainly in the town centre.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The opening on film<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Film footage of the opening of the new shop in 1969 has survived. It records not only the shop itself but also the people involved in such a local event, making the film a small document of everyday life in Barlo at the end of the 1960s.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Onnink in Barlo\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u0TXj9_oso0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A communal freezer too<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Onnink was also associated with a communal freezer. Families could rent their own compartment in such shared freezing facilities. Before affordable domestic freezers became widespread, this was an important new service in the countryside. The Piek installation company operated a similar communal freezer in Barlo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Communal freezers eventually disappeared as freezers in the home became commonplace. The function of local facilities such as these changed with them. Onnink\u2019s film preserves a moment from that transition.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">See also<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/communal-freezers-in-aalten\/\">Communal Freezers in Aalten<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sources<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Old Aalten, VIVO \/ Super Onnink profile and Aalten address book, 1967<\/li><li>Old Aalten historical data, H.A. Onnink \u2013 VIVO \/ Super Onnink relation<\/li><li><em>Barlose Berichten<\/em>, retrospective on local facilities and community life in Barlo<\/li><li>Film <em>Onnink in Barlo<\/em>, opening of the new shop, 1969<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A film from 1969 recorded the opening of Onnink\u2019s new shop in Barlo. The grocery shop was also connected with a communal freezer facility for the rural district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-199821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199828,"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199821\/revisions\/199828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}