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- 12 Jan 2015 01:36
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Safeway locations-Oakland, Calif.-1963
- Replies: 18
- Views: 19137
Re: Safeway locations-Oakland, Calif.-1963
Cross-referencing the Polk directory with Google Maps, unless the addresses changed, it's neither- it's the Starbucks/Noah's Bagels building, which screams 1930s Safeway.
- 12 Jan 2015 01:04
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
- Topic: Former Smith's locations in Arizona that never became Fry's
- Replies: 6
- Views: 14880
Re: Former Smith's locations in Arizona that never became Fr
Both Avondale and Scottsdale have the classic Smith's entrance.
- 12 Jan 2015 01:00
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
- Topic: Safeway, former ABCO, at 7th St. and Thunderbird in Phoenix
- Replies: 4
- Views: 12575
Re: Safeway, former ABCO, at 7th St. and Thunderbird in Phoe
I wondered what the story was with that Safeway. It seemed like a Safeway that time forgot. It still looks like that now, I was there last week.
- 03 Mar 2010 18:39
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: Searching for information about Hess Kline and Supermarket
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2468
Re: Searching for information about Hess Kline and Supermarket
It was Food Fair. There are lots of posts on this board about Food Fair.
- 22 Jan 2010 00:01
- Forum: History: Shopping Centers
- Topic: MB Center Broadway and West MacArthur Blvd. Oakland, CA
- Replies: 10
- Views: 25570
Re: MB Center Broadway and West MacArthur Blvd. Oakland, CA
I believe the MB center had one of, if not the first, locations of "The Diamond Center"- the local jewelry store chain owned by Paul ("I'm a credit man!") Copansky. His commercials were as infamously cheesy as Cal Worthington, Fred Rated or Crazy Eddie.
- 21 Jan 2010 23:46
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Lucky-Livermore, Calif.-2930 Pacific Avenue-1980 Earthquake
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2672
Re: Lucky-Livermore, Calif.-2930 Pacific Avenue-1980 Earthquake
That is definitely the Pacific Avenue Lucky. Somewhere online (not this website) there is a picture of that store from 1959 and the store looked exactly the same, at least in black and white- I don't know if red was the original color or if Lucky was still using yellow and green for their stores in ...
- 23 Jul 2009 04:17
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Gottschalks
- Replies: 61
- Views: 36947
Re: Gottschalks
Was this site a LUCKY grocery store? http://media.modbee.com/smedia/2009/03/31/21/594-LIVE_p0401_01A1gotts2.standalone.prod_affiliate.11.jpg http://media.modbee.com/smedia/2008/12/18/22/593-LIVE_p1219_19b3gotts.standalone.prod_affiliate.11.jpg Zodys? http://images.townnews.com/hanfordsentinel.com/c...
- 11 Jun 2009 15:51
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Gottschalks
- Replies: 61
- Views: 36947
Re: Gottschalks
The Sunrise Mall former Weinstocks is now one of two Macy's in that mall. The other is the former Liberty House. Originally, Macy's had no stores in Sunrise Mall (the original anchors were Weinstocks, Liberty House, JCPenney and Sears) but built a new store across the street in what was first calle...
- 20 May 2009 02:02
- Forum: History: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: Fotomat
- Replies: 10
- Views: 17023
Re: Fotomat
I can remember a Fotomat in Tracy, CA, in the early 1980s. It was on Tracy Blvd. in front of Tracy's first Save Mart location (which was moved next door into a bigger building years later).
- 23 Mar 2009 01:24
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Woolco
- Replies: 43
- Views: 47867
Re:
Here's an interesting scan I just made...page E36 of the May 1964 edition of Chain Store Age magazine, an ad for Melco Heating/Cooling... http://dtcwrt.earlracing.com/stores/csa/woolco.jpg I don't know where those Woolworth's or that Woolco were located though. The Woolworth's on the right looks li...
- 17 Mar 2009 21:56
- Forum: History: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: Big Lots
- Replies: 30
- Views: 38626
Re: Big Lots
Anything and everything is right- including a portion of the original flagship Bullock's in downtown LA.
- 15 Mar 2009 23:56
- Forum: History: USA Northwest/Rockies/Alaska
- Topic: Safeway Early History in Seattle
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4061
Re: "What I. G. A. Means to the Consumer" (1933)
I went back and double-checked the date in the East Side Journal index available at the Kirkland Heritage Society's website (http://www.kirklandheritage.org) and verified that this particular ad ran in the August 24, 1933 edition of the Journal. Also, it turns out from a bit of further searching th...
- 09 Mar 2009 01:32
- Forum: History: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: Goodbye Virgin Megastores
- Replies: 9
- Views: 13529
Re: Goodbye Virgin Megastores
The San Francisco location took forever to construct. It was in a gutted semi-triangular building, probably pre-1920s. That building was originally Roos Bros. (later Roos-Atkins) clothing store. It was most likely built as part of the reconstruction of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake, as it...
- 05 Aug 2008 20:09
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: 2 Supermarkets In One Shopping Center
- Replies: 68
- Views: 105272
Re: 2 Supermarkets In One Shopping Center
The Greenhouse in San Leandro, CA has both Safeway and FoodMaxx.
- 23 Jun 2008 03:09
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Zody's
- Replies: 88
- Views: 77225
Re: Zody's
IIRC that facade looks almost identical to the Zody's store in Stockton on Hammer Lane, which opened in 1980. But since Zody's was mostly a Southern California chain, it probably is Oxnard.