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- 01 May 2024 08:57
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: West Castle Restaurants in Southern California
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10220
Re: West Castle Restaurants in Southern California
Back in the mid 1980s, I came across a White Castle clone in Long Beach, CA called "West Castle." I don't remember exactly where it was, but it was fairly close to the Douglas Aircraft Company and the Long Beach Airport. From what I remember, the building was similar to White Castles of t...
- 01 May 2024 08:53
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: West Castle Restaurants in Southern California
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10220
Re: West Castle Restaurants in Southern California
Back in the mid 1980s, I came across a White Castle clone in Long Beach, CA called "West Castle." I don't remember exactly where it was, but it was fairly close to the Douglas Aircraft Company and the Long Beach Airport. From what I remember, the building was similar to White Castles of t...
- 28 Apr 2024 16:36
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Kelly's Hamburgers / Kelly Jet System ?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1089
Kelly's Hamburgers / Kelly Jet System ?
Has anyone ever heard of this chain? Apparently were actually a somewhat decent sized chain before disappearing sometime in the early to mid 1970's. https://www.flickr.com/photos/64900616@N04/8639327042 https://danielebrady.blogspot.com/2013/03/kellys-jet-system-hamburgers-1963.html https://defunct-...
- 30 Mar 2024 16:47
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Sears store-within-a-stores over the years
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13209
Re: Sears store-within-a-stores over the years
K B Toys used to have stores inside of Sears From what I could tell these were done in the early 2000s as a seasonal thing and not a year-round thing. I'm more interested in regional departments... So Macy's wasn't the first with Toys R Us... Montgomery Ward had a full sized Toys "R" Us i...
- 28 Mar 2024 21:43
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Sears store-within-a-stores over the years
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13209
Re: Sears store-within-a-stores over the years
Did anyone mention the Bell Phone Centers yet? They were a chain of stand alone phones stores operated by the Bell System before having some short-lived departments (around 3 years) inside of select Sears locations, All of them were converted into AT&T Phone Centers, which included the Sears dep...
- 26 Mar 2024 15:57
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Super Rite
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6113
Re: Super Rite
Richfood acquired Super Rite in 1995BatteryMill wrote: ↑28 Feb 2022 15:51 Was this chain ever folded into Richfood (later SuperValu and UNFI)? I recall there were some exchanges with Shoppers of Washington, D.C. as well.
- 26 Mar 2024 09:59
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Super Rite
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6113
Re: Super Rite
Apparently "Super Rite" was never a chain of grocery stores rather, a food distribution company. Rite Aid didn't start the company either. From what I've heard, when Pantry Pride went out of business, Rite Aid acquired one of their food distributors, changed the name of it to "Super ...
- 22 Feb 2024 15:01
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Kroger Family Centers
- Replies: 126
- Views: 124276
Re: Kroger Family Centers
Better quality image:retail_person_247 wrote: ↑22 Feb 2024 14:50 Kroger appears to have also tried out the Family Center format with their Henke & Pilot stores:
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1585986/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/lake ... 109375350/
- 22 Feb 2024 14:50
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Kroger Family Centers
- Replies: 126
- Views: 124276
Re: Kroger Family Centers
Kroger appears to have also tried out the Family Center format with their Henke & Pilot stores:
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1585986/
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1585986/
- 10 Jan 2024 19:08
- Forum: History: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: Old ServiStar Hardware signs still up?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5401
Old ServiStar Hardware signs still up?
Does anybody remember ServiStar? They were a chain of franchised hardware stores, merged with Coast To Coast in 1990 (though both chains still operated under their own respective names), merged with True Value in 1996, all 3 stores went under their own name until 1999 when both ServiStar & Coast...
- 10 Jan 2024 14:01
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Kroger Family Centers
- Replies: 126
- Views: 124276
Re: Kroger Family Centers
Found another one somewhere in Fayetteville, AR
https://www.newspapers.com/article/nort ... 138448721/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/nort ... 138448721/
- 08 Oct 2023 14:45
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Barker's Department Stores
- Replies: 46
- Views: 63394
Re: Barker's Department Stores
You've probably already seen me make posts about this on the Kroger Family Centers topic, but I've made a list of discount dept. stores, which not only include Kroger FC's, but Barkers as well: https://groceteria.ca/board/viewtopic.php?p=23530 As of posting this, there's currently 57 Barkers locatio...
- 06 Oct 2023 22:45
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Kroger Thriftown Discount Dept. Stores
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3491
Re: Kroger Thriftown Discount Dept. Stores
Has anyone ever heard of this chain? Apparently it was Kroger's true discount dept. store division Kroger had their family centers, hypermarkets with a full supermarket and discount dept store section, similar and comparable to todays Walmart Supercenter, But they also had Thriftown, full on discou...
- 06 Oct 2023 21:53
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Kroger Thriftown Discount Dept. Stores
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3491
Re: Kroger Thriftown Discount Dept. Stores
Ok, one last short update on this topic for today. After looking through newspaper archives and a quick search through Kroger's old annual reports, apparently this concept wasn't as short lived as one would think. The earlist newspaper ad that I could find was from 1963: https://www.newspapers.com/n...
- 06 Oct 2023 21:29
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Kroger Family Centers
- Replies: 126
- Views: 124276
Re: Kroger Family Centers
With the 2 locations that I just mentioned, that brings the number of known Kroger Family Centers (known to me) to a grand total of 45. If you want to view all the locations that I've tracked you can find them here: https://groceteria.ca/board/viewtopic.php?p=23530 I've already listed the store in ...