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by jleyerle
06 Feb 2024 19:36
Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
Topic: What happened to drugstore lunch counters?
Replies: 12
Views: 1231

Re: What happened to drugstore lunch counters?

Growing up in suburban St. Louis, the Walgreens at Crestwood Plaza (built roughly 1958) had a lunch counter until the mall was fully enclosed (it was built as an open air mall with Kroger at one end, Sears and Woolworth mid and Vandervoort's (department store) at the far end. Mid 60s an enclosed ad...
by jleyerle
01 Feb 2024 00:52
Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
Topic: What happened to drugstore lunch counters?
Replies: 12
Views: 1231

Re: What happened to drugstore lunch counters?

Growing up in suburban St. Louis, the Walgreens at Crestwood Plaza (built roughly 1958) had a lunch counter until the mall was fully enclosed (it was built as an open air mall with Kroger at one end, Sears and Woolworth mid and Vandervoort's (department store) at the far end. Mid 60s an enclosed add...
by jleyerle
09 Jan 2024 20:01
Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
Topic: NEW: Tulsa OK, 1925-2021
Replies: 3
Views: 2398

Re: NEW: Tulsa OK, 1925-2021

Found an interesting YouTube video with old commercials...from around 1980 in Tulsa. Among the ads was a Safeway ad which had a superscript in the final scene likely indicating the extent of the Tulsa division: "NE Okla; Coffeyville, Independence and Parsons, KS; Fayetteville, Rogers, Springdal...
by jleyerle
30 Dec 2023 10:26
Forum: History: USA Northeast
Topic: A&P stores in Maine in 1990s
Replies: 13
Views: 8257

Re: A&P stores in Maine in 1990s

Original poster....yeah that was likely it...just a weird space all around.

Thanks for the detailed information! Looks like that store and French Quarter LA were the two weird final locations (not in NYC)
by jleyerle
24 Nov 2023 13:57
Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
Topic: Mystery restaurant with frying pan-shaped sign
Replies: 10
Views: 9870

Re: Mystery restaurant with frying pan-shaped sign

I wonder, though if that was an earlier KFC/Scott's Chicken Villa (from the building size/shape) and only got the skillet to replace the weathervane.
by jleyerle
13 Nov 2023 21:09
Forum: History: USA Midwest/Plains
Topic: NEW: Kansas City MO, 1925-1992
Replies: 18
Views: 8675

Re: NEW: Kansas City MO, 1925-1992

Good extension of this spreadsheet. By way of background, I lived in Overland Park twice: as a kid from 1964-1967 at 100th/Antioch, then as a young adult from 1989-1992 on 87th/Farley (west of Antioch) A couple of edits; the location on the SW corner of 95th/Antioch was Cherokee United Supers from t...
by jleyerle
12 Aug 2023 16:10
Forum: History: USA Northeast
Topic: A&P in New Hampshire
Replies: 14
Views: 8625

Re: A&P in New Hampshire

Second picture
by jleyerle
12 Aug 2023 16:10
Forum: History: USA Northeast
Topic: A&P in New Hampshire
Replies: 14
Views: 8625

Re: A&P in New Hampshire

An old A&P store in Woodsville, NH right across the river from Wells River, VT. There was a faint label scar on the front. Remaining in Woodsville was a Shaw's, Walmart and a Rite Aid.
by jleyerle
11 Apr 2023 00:31
Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
Topic: Mystery restaurant with frying pan-shaped sign
Replies: 10
Views: 9870

Re: Mystery restaurant with frying pan-shaped sign

Golden Skillet is it. Was centered on Richmond, VA. I was a mystery shopper for KFC in the 1987-1989 timeframe, and periodically went to the Tidewater/Richmond area. There were a couple around Richmond at the time. If memory serves, they used a pressure fryer (similar to KFC Original Recipe or Lees'...
by jleyerle
05 Dec 2022 16:07
Forum: History: Canada
Topic: Thunder Bay, ON chain grocery/supermarket history, 1975-2019
Replies: 22
Views: 6389

Re: Thunder Bay, ON chain grocery/supermarket history, 1975-2019

Probably a repurposed picture, as Marlboro isn't quite the killer brand in Canada it is in the US.
by jleyerle
03 Dec 2022 17:30
Forum: History: Department Store Chains
Topic: Sears store-within-a-stores over the years
Replies: 16
Views: 2831

Re: Sears store-within-a-stores over the years

I remember poking through the Ala Moana store in the early 2010s during a trip, and being impressed that they sold ukeleles (a rack or two of them--well past the time I'd have thought Chicago had any buyers dealing with stringed instruments). Wonder if the local instrument vendor was one of those co...
by jleyerle
27 Nov 2022 00:40
Forum: History: Department Store Chains
Topic: Sears store-within-a-stores over the years
Replies: 16
Views: 2831

Re: Sears store-within-a-stores over the years

I remember that they had HBA in the stores in St. Louis in the late 70s...for some reason I remember they had strange price tags. It seemed like just another leased department, probably the same jobber as did other leased HBA departments in other discount stores.
by jleyerle
03 Aug 2022 21:32
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: SuperPlus
Replies: 2
Views: 1266

Re: SuperPlus

It is probably more likely that it was Florida, as A&P was having some success with the Family Mart concept down that way. SuperPlus hung on after A&P left Chicago for a few years, as the attached story says. I recall that it was essentially a warehouse market with meat/produce...akin to a F...
by jleyerle
26 Jul 2022 19:26
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: A&P bakery only locations?
Replies: 6
Views: 1551

Re: A&P bakery only locations?

Apparently they did do cake decorating at their central bakeries--recently saw a mention that you could order personalized cakes from store locations w/o in-store bakeries.
by jleyerle
30 Jun 2022 14:39
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: NEW: Altoona, 1925-2020
Replies: 9
Views: 1507

Re: NEW: Altoona, 1925-2020

That's a cool article! Wonder what the last service store in the A&P system was--either the one on Royal in New Orleans or perhaps one somewhere in NYC.