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Penn Traffic traces its origins back to the 1850s, when it was a trading post in [[Johnstown, Pennsylvania|Johnstown]], [[Pennsylvania]]. Over the years, Penn Traffic evolved first into a general-merchandise department store and later a large [[retail]] and [[wholesale]] [[supermarket]] company. In 1922 it established Johnstown's first radio station, [[WTAC (Johnstown, Pennsylvania)|WTAC]],<ref>[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hxhh8g&view=1up&seq=1259 "New stations"], ''Radio Service Bulletin'', December 1, 1922, page 3.</ref> which was licensed until early 1926.<ref>[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112106763060&view=1up&seq=257 "Strike out all particulars"], ''Radio Service Bulletin'', January 30, 1926, page 7.</ref> Riverside, founded in [[Brookville, Pennsylvania]] in 1928, became part of the Penn Traffic family in 1962, and began developing the Bi-Lo format in the 1980s (not related to the [[BI-LO (United States)|chain]] in the Mid-Atlantic). Penn Traffic operated 43 supermarkets under the Bi-Lo trade name across Pennsylvania, and also distributed food to 51 franchised and independent supermarkets from its [[DuBois, Pennsylvania]] distribution facility. Quality Markets, founded in [[Jamestown, New York|Jamestown]], [[New York (state)|New York]] in 1913, joined the Penn Traffic family in 1979. Penn Traffic operated a total of 34 supermarkets under the Quality trade name in southwestern New York and northwestern Pennsylvania.
Penn Traffic's flagship department store in Johnstown, challenged by economic decline, permanently closed after the [[1977]] flood. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tribdem.com/archives/1977-flood-devastated-local-economy/article_2621c508-6c46-5cea-a321-35663fb9aad6.html|title = 1977 Flood devastated local economy| date=8 July 2007 }}</ref> The company sold its six department stores and two women's specialty-store leases to Crown American Corporation, owner of the [[Hess's]] department store chain, in 1982 in order to concentrate on the [[supermarket]] business.
==Acquisition==
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