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Thanks. Any others? I leave on Saturday. Are any other Dominick's stores old and worthy of a look? Any neighborhood commercial strips I shouldn't miss? And what parts of Chicago should I flat out avoid? I've spent some time there in the past, but it's been almost ten years and I'm not usre how much ...

TheStranger wrote:Here's a former Safeway and Thrifty now being used as a swap meet center in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa, as photographed by Roadsidepictures in 2003.

It woiuldn't surprise me in the least if this had originally been a Safeway/Super S combo, based on the uniform architecture.

We recently had our house sprayed by the exterminator, and afterward the whole place smelled exactly like the entrance to a Kmart or Woolworth's used to. We determined that smell was either stale popcorn, stale candy, or a combination of the two (caramel corn, maybe?).

Jeff wrote:There is a Vons in Covina (on Badillo and Grand) that has this bubble roof, but I beleive it always has been a Vons.

The rounded roof was extremely common in the 1950s; just about every chain used some sort of variation on it. It was dictated by construction needs rather than aesthetics.

robsster wrote:The Mayfair Brentwood on Junipero Serra is pictured on the Mayfair Stores page with the Princilla's Cake Box.

I'm glad someone's finally coughed up an ID of that store for me. Thanks.

I've split this into a separate topic for clarity's sake.

TheStranger wrote:Wow, a marina now operating as a church in Atlanta:

FYI, that's Atlanta, Texas, not Atlanta, Georgia.

Just wondering if any of you might have any knowlege if there was ever a connection between National Tea and the Big Bear stores of northern North Carolina. I keep finding snippets that refer to "National Food Stores" as the parent company of Big Bear/NC in the 1960s, but I know it was als...

Is the Purity structure still standing at Oakdale? I can't remember. I think it is, because I probably would've marked it demolished otherwise, but OI'm just not sure. I've put the SF addresses up in spreadsheet format, which might make it a little easier. This is how I'm doing most of the new city...

TheStranger wrote:Ah, what was the address number for this intersection? When I checked the list in the SF section, I think it was 4820 3rd but that gave me the Oakdale intersection.

It's 6190 Third. The store at 4820 was an older one dating from the early 1930s to the mid 1950s.

Better photo, from Live Local: http://groceteria.com/forboard/purity3rd.jpg It's at the corner of 3rd and Paul. I believe the church building (closest to the corner) was the original Siri's/Purity, but it's been about five years since I've been by there, so I don't really recall the specifics of the...

RandallFlagg wrote:Was this the same chain that operated Food Giant in California.

No. Entirely different. There have been numerous Food Giant and Giat Food Chains around the country. It's one of the most common names for regional chains.

I've never worked in the industry, although I do have many years of other retail experience under my belt, first in fast food during high school, then with a catalog showroom in college, followed by a clothing retailer, and then nearly sixteen years with FedEx Kinko's. Currently, I design websites a...

Interestingly enough, Target's store loactor site lists its store there as the "Fashion Island Target", with an address on Bridgepoint Parkway.

Actually, the UCD medical center is out at the former fairgrounds at Broadway and Stockton Boulevard, not particularly close to the L Street area. I think Paper or Plastic was just referring, as he said, to a UCD medical building, not to the entire hospital. UCD has clinics and other buildings scat...