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- 23 Jan 2023 11:45
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Kroger Family Centers
- Replies: 126
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Re: Kroger Family Centers
I found this newspaper ad listed several locations of old retail stores (of where to buy trainsets, what the page was originally advertising) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/382222633/ I looked at the (which according to this website) the former TG&Y store located at 1600 W Jackson St, Maco...
- 14 Dec 2022 23:56
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Kroger Family Centers
- Replies: 126
- Views: 124215
Re: Kroger Family Centers
By chance could this Kroger in Balch Springs originally start out as a former Family Center? https://www.google.com/maps/@32.71995,-96.6205108,3a,75y,325.23h,88.31t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4qsvLm0Cra4iKv6MsMMhZQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 No, that was actually a Safeway; one of the last new stores before the D...
- 05 Dec 2022 18:00
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: Kroger in Lafayette LA
- Replies: 22
- Views: 19454
Re: Kroger in Lafayette LA
I collected these from an 1983 ad. It's possible one more was built before pull-out in I believe 1985 but it's unlikely. http://www.groceteria.com/board/viewtopic.php?p=20628#p20628 https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/11/22/An-Ohio-based-grocery-store-chain-closed-six-of-its/7446438325200/ Kroger lef...
- 18 Jan 2022 19:48
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Kroger Family Centers
- Replies: 126
- Views: 124215
Re: Kroger Family Centers
I think I might have stumbled across a former Kroger Family Center in Valparaiso, IN Here's a Google Street View of the building before it was demolished: https://www.google.com/maps/place/1301+E+Lincolnway,+Valparaiso,+IN+46383/@41.4678596,-87.0448743,3a,26.4y,3.66h,91t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJJV4EqV...
- 18 Jan 2022 19:44
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
- Topic: Texas Updates
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15331
Re: Texas Updates
Anyone able to identify what chain these two stores may have been when originally constructed? -New Braunfels, TX- Arlan's Market 559 W San Antonio St, New Braunfels, TX 78130 https://goo.gl/maps/NvjgMnU6ghpoafEDA Street view: https://goo.gl/maps/ep9Y2hRkJSpbb7hPA -San Antonio, TX- La Fiesta 6103 P...
- 26 Feb 2020 11:07
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: Lafayette, LA
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6431
Re: Lafayette, LA
Further work was done in 2016 to remove the liquor store and move a few more things around. From a 2017 Street View, it still looks from the outside just as it did in 2015, the liquor store (complete with "Liquor" signage and separate doors) is still there, with even the LLC-era "Alb...
- 25 Feb 2020 17:02
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: Baton Rouge supermarkets
- Replies: 14
- Views: 19563
Re: Baton Rouge supermarkets
The Albertsons at Florida and S Sherwood was originally Skaggs Albertsons (never “Alpha Beta”) Skaggs and Albertsons split the stores 50/50, with some becoming Skaggs Alpha Beta (largely in Texas) and some becoming Albertsons (Louisiana and Florida). It's a shame that one sits empty, as it's in a b...
- 25 Feb 2020 16:57
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: Lafayette, LA
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6431
Re: Lafayette, LA
2863 Ambassador Caffery had to have been renovated before 2016...it had the "Albertsons Market" signage on the aisle markers when I visited in 2015, indicated it might have been renovated prior to the buyback of NAI. https://safewayalbertsonstexas.blogspot ... te-la.html Further work was ...
- 13 Dec 2019 00:30
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: Big Chain ad from 1940
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4469
Big Chain ad from 1940
Seems that Big Chain in Shreveport was pretty snippy back in 1940 when United Gas came to town from Houston. bcad.jpg Funny thing is that two of those competitors ended up in Shreveport later on...Weingarten came to town in 1957, and Henke and Pillot (via Kroger by that time) came a little later on ...
- 10 Sep 2019 22:06
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: Lafayette, LA
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6431
Re: Lafayette, LA
I have a bit of a preview here. This spreadsheet covers locations of all the chains that have operated in Lafayette since 1955. There may be corrections later depending on what else I find. All I can say is that Lafayette is a very interesting place. Narrative of all of this to come. https://1drv.ms...
- 03 Sep 2019 22:11
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: Lafayette, LA
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6431
Lafayette, LA
So I'm finally (late) jumping into the game. I've acquired a subscription to Newspapers.com (until my wife finds out!) and have been playing around in the newspapers of a couple of places I've lived, including my current town, Lafayette. Lafayette is one of the most interesting in supermarket histor...
- 03 Sep 2019 00:19
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
- Topic: Texas Updates
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15331
Re: Texas Updates
The other part of Food Lion's problems even before that was that H-E-B started building in Houston first, hitting fast and hard. As a result (that and the ABC special), only a dozen stores in Houston ever opened, and pulled around 1994. And the irony of the Houston portion of this story (they got m...
- 04 Aug 2019 19:10
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
- Topic: Texas Updates
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15331
Re: Texas Updates
Did a little more checking. Food Lion entered Texas in 1991-1992 and had closed many of the stores by early 1994. The gave up on the entire state a couple of years later, so their entrance and exit all happened during my "missing" years in the 1990s (I was not able to get data for 1995). ...
- 05 Jun 2019 20:53
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Kmart Food stores that lingered beyond the mid-'70s
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5419
Re: Kmart Food stores that lingered beyond the mid-'70s
Danville, IL, #4030, originally opened in 1963. The store was built in a very strange L formation. I'm assuming that it was operated by Kroger, because that's what it became. The store's sign was at the top of the hill on N. Vermilion St., and I remember vividly the Kmart Plaza sign, and the Kroger ...
- 28 Apr 2019 00:47
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Early Kmart closures (PRE-1994)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 37485
Re: Early Kmart closures (PRE-1994)
I remember finding out that 1710 11th Street in Huntsville, TX was originally a Kmart (later a Hastings for years, ultimately demolished for an H-E-B) but I can no longer find the reference. Looking at both Google Maps (for historic street images) and Historic Aerials (for historic maps), you may b...