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There was an IGA store in the 1983 ABC-TV movie, "The Day After." I have that on DVD and will try to get some captures up before too long. I remember seeing the movie the night it aired in a large auditorium on my college campus. It was one of the creepiest pieces of film I'd ever seen up...

That's quite stunning. I'd love to see its innards...

Just FYI, I've finally posted more photos from my recent road trip: http://www.groceteria.com/journal/2006/11.html#112606 I know there aren't any Safeway or California pictures here, but I thought some of you might be interested in a slight change of perspective (or geography) from what's been domin...

Hi all. Hope you had a great holiday. A few spam posts made their way onto the board while I was out of town. This is going to happen from time to time because I don't monitor the board 24/7, especially when I'm on holiday. It may take a day or two when I'm out of town, but I will ban them and delet...

lvkewlkid wrote:In Las Vegas, we have a VONS that has a Jamba Juice, a Staples, Starbucks, Panda Express, and Bank of America inside. There also used to be a Blockbuster inside as well.

That's actually a pretty common set-up for newer Safeway stores.

Actually, it may be, if only for this reason: Safeway's genesis lies in a three-chain merger (Skaggs, Seelig, MacMarr) and with all the stores renamed to Safeway over a period of time, none of them really are the "first Safeway" per se. To be more precise, the mergers happened as a sequen...

FYI, there is a pre-existing thread on Tianguis here:

http://www.groceteria.com/board/viewtop ... t=tianguis

If we could keep all future posts on that chain over in that thread instead, it would be cool...

In Richmond and probably other parts of Virginia, the entry of Farmer Jack wasn't an expansion but a rebranding of former A&P and Pantry Pride stores They did this in Raleigh NC as well, in 1996, shortly before leaving the region entirely. Allied had an odd collection of separated markets--Detr...

Safeway entered New York via the acquisition of Daniel Reeves stores in 1941. Most of their early geographic expansion was through acquisition.

I wish I had a clue about what could be done. I'd drive up myself if I weren't flying to the west coast for Thanksgiving with the in-laws this weekend. It's a depressing thought that they may be just thrown away. If anyone can arrange temporary storage, I might be able to give a home to a couple of ...

Very cool articles! Is this location still open?? If you mean the location shown in the original article at the beginning of the thread, yes. It's at 15 Marina Boulevard in San Francisco. It's been expanded, and the interior has been remodeled a few times, but it still has its Marina facade. The mu...

Floyd wrote:Don Quick also built an identical looking store in Rio Vista which is "Lira's Supermarket" today.

I always wondered about that store's past. Thanks for the info...

The Safeway St. Louis and environs discussion has been split and moved here:

http://www.groceteria.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=870

In case you're interested The History Channel's "Modern Marvels" will be faeturing the supermarket on Wednesday night (15 November 2006) at 10PM EST: From their website : Our basic need and desire for food has made the supermarket one of the great success stories of modern retailing. Makin...

(Please Note: I apologize if this is in the wrong forum) Thanks for caring. Yes, anything that involves questions about specific locations should now go in the Commercial Archaeology forum. From looking at the front, I was going to suggest Mayfair, but it looks a little too deep for that. They were...