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- 23 Dec 2007 15:43
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Target, La Habra
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11764
Re: Target, La Habra
After looking at the maps.live.com picture of it, I'm pretty sure it was never anything but a Target. That store design was a prototype that Target was building in 1986-1987. They built them all over. I remember one being built in Longview, TX (near where I grew up) that opened around that time. It ...
- 01 Dec 2007 10:53
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Supermarket in "The Mist"
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6793
The speculation here was ALL correct. Today's Shreveport Times has all the answers here: http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071201/NEWS01/712010341 Essentially, the outside was Tom's Market in Vivian, LA. The store has always been an independant. The inside was shot on a sou...
- 27 Nov 2007 00:42
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: KMart Cafeteria and Other Restaurants
- Replies: 72
- Views: 98090
If I remember the numbering system correctly: 3xxx/4xxx stores were the original format - about 80,000 square feet, and usually had an attached grocery. (I think Garden City was 4000) 7xxx stores were mostly built in the 70's, and were around 70,000 square feet. They are the most recognizable stores...
- 11 Nov 2007 19:36
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Supermarket in "The Mist"
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6793
I'm pretty sure that's not a store in Shreveport. Shreveport doesn't have any surviving gable-style stores from any company that was ever there (and that was only Safeway and Piggly Wiggly). Safeway only had newer stores in Shreveport when they left with the rest of the Dallas division in 1987. They...
- 09 Sep 2007 20:42
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Super Kmart-Brookpark Rd, Parma, OH
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7834
- 08 Sep 2007 22:22
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Super Kmart-Brookpark Rd, Parma, OH
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7834
Not to rain on the parade, but I think this is an original Super Kmart. Looking at the Local.live.com shot of the store, it has the original Super K footprint, and has little evidence of being added to. In addition, I've only been in 4 Super K stores, all of which are now closed (West Monroe, Alexan...
- 02 Sep 2007 23:19
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: A&P New Orleans French Quarter STILL OPEN!!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4426
A&P New Orleans French Quarter STILL OPEN!!
I went in the tiny little Royal St. store in New Orleans' French Quarter this evening. Looked mostly the same thus far, with one small exception: NO COFFEE GRINDERS! As far as I know, AP NO hasn't been sold yet, so they're still in APTEA's hands. If I can get by there in the morning, I'll take a pic...
- 08 Aug 2007 23:49
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Rite-Aid Sign Replacements for Acquired Chains
- Replies: 33
- Views: 38303
- 15 Jul 2007 15:13
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Thrifty (and Other Rite-Aid Legacy Brands) Ice Cream
- Replies: 26
- Views: 33804
- 26 Jun 2007 12:48
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: Big Chain, Shreveport LA
- Replies: 9
- Views: 20061
Here are a few more pieces of the puzzle. I'm starting to see a few trends here...... As I had mentioned before, Big Chain had cafeterias. For sure, one of those was in the Shreve City shopping center. Built in 1961, and later greatly expanded, Shreve City was (and still is) over 500,000 sq. ft. Big...
- 23 Jun 2007 14:31
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: Big Chain, Shreveport LA
- Replies: 9
- Views: 20061
- 20 Jun 2007 18:00
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: Big Chain, Shreveport LA
- Replies: 9
- Views: 20061
There must have been three locations in Shreveport, then. The last one was built in Shreve City shopping center, built in 1961. It became Brookshire's soon after (by 1966-67, when Brookshire entered Shreveport). The building is still standing today, but is a call center for Capital One (formerly Hib...
- 11 Mar 2007 21:45
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: The first store that got me interested in old supermarkets
- Replies: 27
- Views: 30620
I would have to say that mine is really a series of old Safeway stores, but it began with the Marina store in Henderson, TX. My mother used to shop there in the late 70's, where we always went after shopping at one of the earliest Wal-Mart stores in Texas. That store closed in 1980, being replaced b...
- 15 Feb 2007 00:38
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: Big Star stores NOT connected with Colonial
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6005
- 11 Feb 2007 15:11
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: History of Albertsons (pre ASC and SuperValu)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5039
Skaggs-Albertsons was not a standalone drug store. Skaggs and Albertsons had a partnership where Albersons supplied one half of the store (grocery) and Skaggs supplied the other (GM/Pharmacy). It was through this partnership that the Albertsons we all know came from. Skaggs was a standalone drugstor...