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I wasn't sure if this picture was posted yet. It's an unidentified location, but I think this is a Canadian Safeway;
http://img99.echo.cx/img99/2245/saf19qj.jpg

Sorry I don't know the crosstreet of the 1961 Claremont Ave. gable. Yes the Redwood Rd. Safeway was falsefronted, but it does indeed have that circle S on the right side of the store still. Speaking of circle S, the Orinda Safeway seems to have been one of the very last Safeways to incorporate the c...

The orinda store was expanded and remodeled in 1982, during which time a suspended ceiling was added that hid the Marina ceiling. I think this store opened around 1960. Other noteworthy east bay marinas are; -1444 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley (opened 1965, featuring basement parking and elevator) -6310 Co...

Thrifty Drug had by far the best coverage in their home state of California, but I know that they also had stores in Oregon, albeit very few. There were two stores in Eugene, and a newspaper article about the opening of the second store mentioned that Thrifty was "a Los Angeles firm with more t...

For the northern california locations, there's also a former Alpha Beta that closed in August as Albertson's covered in Charles Hathaway's site at 1409 Bird ave. in San Jose. http://home.comcast.net/~evchathaway/wsb/html/view.cgi-photos.html-MerchantID-302077-Publish-t-makestatic-true-skip-45.html ....

I am 99% sure that this was an early 1950s Safeway. The decorative brick pattern seen near the "Food" section of the sign was a Safeway trademark. Also, the front entrance, including the two sets of doors and the marble tile at the base of the front, as well as the streetlights and rear br...

The Santa Clara County shopping center guide is a non-circulating reference book. Actually, it's a few books that were published about every year in the late 1960s/early 1970s, and includes nearly every shopping center in Santa Clara County present at the time. Included is its name, a photo, its ten...

The Hacienda Gardens Safeway was completely rebuilt. The reason I know it existed in that shopping center is because I saw a vintage photo of it in a late 1960s Santa Clara County shopping center guide found in the California History room of the main San Jose library. It just closed as an Albertsons...

I can speak for 1959 Safeways. I do know that there was a Safeway in the Hacienda Gardens Shopping Center in San Jose, CA (rebuilt as Lucky in the 1980s) that opened in January 1959, and had an arched roof. It looked a lot like the 7th ave. San Francisco Safeway, which I'm venturing to guess was als...

The Albertson's in Eugene, OR at 1675 W. 18th ave. opened November 2, 1960. This was Eugene's first Albertson's, and the last one from the 1960s to remain in operation. From a newspaper article of the Register-Guard; "Albertson's has 23,800 square feet of merchandising area. Its exterior is con...

Thanks for the photos!
Here are a couple of pages that show the Marina "front" of the Red Apple Market;
Bottom of page:
http://www.nedcocdc.org/commercial-completed.htm

Middle of page:
http://www.nedcocdc.org/brochure25.pdf

I thought I would throw Eugene/Springfield, OR Safeways into the mix. If anyone can find images of these with Live Local, that would be great. EUGENE -849 W. 6th Ave. Opened July 11, 1951. Interesting pylon/marina hybrid. Originally, this store had a streetfront entrance, and aisles parallel to the ...

I'm glad somebody else notices those huge round air diffusers! They were common in Woolworths too...

Here are some pages from Cool Store Photos;

http://www.geocities.com/coolstorephotos/safewayor.html
http://www.geocities.com/coolstorephoto ... ayor2.html
http://www.geocities.com/coolstorephoto ... ayor3.html