I googled A & P supermarkets and came up with this link. http://www.apsupermarket.com/
Looks like the letters should be white on a red background as they suggested.
Hope this helps.
Mondo
This is the City Classics supermarket model on my layout. It comes with a coupon which you can send in to get a decal sheet with a number of prototype logos for markets - Kroger and Piggly Wiggly are two that come to mind, along with the good old A&P. This is the way I remember the A&P growing up:
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Here's a picture of the sign I think you're looking for, sometime in the 30's:
Unfortunately, it's in black and white. I remember the sign as white letters on a red background with the outline of the letters and the outside of the circle in gold.
Here for what it is worth (mostly black and white but a few color shots) is a three page photo gallery of A&P food store photographs!
http://www.groceteria.com/ap/gallery1.html
http://www.groceteria.com/ap/gallery2.html
http://www.groceteria.com/ap/gallery3.html
All in the context of a very thorough article about A&P
http://www.groceteria.com/ap/
Dave Nelson
Thanks all, guess I'll go with the white letters with gold ring. The inst. said white ring. Probably something that evolved over time. The PRR used to use " gold" lettering until the paint became too expensive, they then switched to the imitation gold color...maybe same for A&P.
Jerry
I have an A&P truck on my N scale layout. It came from Classic Metal Works. the A&P logo is gold on the red body of the truck.
Their website doesn't have the N scale item shown anymore, but there is a picture in their HO section.
I built one of those signs some years ago.
http://img511.imageshack.us/my.php?image=apuploadkn5.jpg
The A&P Sign was white on red.
The picture was not the best. The stucture is 2 feet long and the sign was about roughly 6 inches long (Actually the O scale Bar Mills sign.)
I found another old A&P photo and it does not show a gold circle around the logo: