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It's at 2306 Almeden Road at Curtner, just off Almeden Expressway. It didn't have the original color scheme, but did have the original walls and wall signage, just painted a more neutral color. I'd guess it opened about 1968. Interestingly, the exterior had been remodeled recently, as part of a reno...

I went by a former Colonial location in Richmond today (from 1965, perhaps earlier) that has a canopy exactly the same as your Winn-Dixie ("wavy"). I think it's a Colonial for sure. I tend to agree on this one; it's almost certainly a Colonial. There's also one with that canopy in Camden ...

Great pictures! I'm also curious about the windmill. Was that a Von's thing? Actually, the windmill was most likely related to Van de Kamps, as stated above. It may have been an ad, but a more likely guess is that there was a Van de Kamps restaurant/bakery adjacent. Most of them had windmill motifs...

Anybody know what this store is / was? This is a recent magazine ad for the Kia Sedona. I scanned it and cropped to show only the photo. My guess is that this is a former Safeway. Any guesses as to location, most recent operation, etc? No location guesses, but it's definitely a former Safeway. And ...

Astor and Superbrand come to mind. And wasn't there a Crackin' Good or Crackin' Fresh brand for crackers and cookies?

jamcool wrote:Remember those "bell" sounds you heard over the speakers at dept. stores in the old days? What were they for?

I think they were to page departments by number. For example, department 213 would be ding-ding pause ding pause ding-ding-ding.

StoreLiker2005 wrote:Does anyone know how old the current 7-11 logo is? It looks very dated now.

As I remember, it dates from the mid 1970s. The stores in my hometown haad time to adopt the new logo before being sold, which happened in the late 1970s.

Was the Giant Genie chain bought by a pharmacy (which seems strange. Why not just start your own pharmacy with a more pharmacy sounding name?). When did the location on South Blvd. open up? Which location is shown in the article on Charlotte chains? The Giant Genie chain was a small family-owned ch...

How about an A&P into a television station? WBOY, Channel 12, Clarksburg, WV: Y'know, I've seen another store converted into either a TV or radio station somewhere, and I can't remember the specifics now. Of course, SF has an old Safeway at Turk and Fillmore that's been converted into a police ...

Great photos. Thanks.

I pushed this thread over to "regions and cities" because all the locations were already identified in the initial post, so their origins weren't really in question :)

I've seen this postcard on eBay several times and I've often wondered where this store was. Anyone have any ideas? I can't figure out what the old building behind it is, or was, but its age would tend to place it in the downtown/midtown area, I should think. It kind of looks like a hospital. The onl...

Steve Landry wrote:From the photo the square footage looks huge for the time (50,000 sqft?).

Doesn't look quite that big to me. I'm guessing maybe 25K, tops. Note that the wing is actually a dry cleaner's store and not part of the Food Fair.

It's a quite beautiful store, though. Nice photo too.

In Atlanta, there is a store that was once called the "Disco Kroger" because of it's location in the center of Atlanta's nightlife at the time. So I wonder if they had a disco ball. Or what about the former Big Star, later A&P that was next door? I think it was more a reference to tha...

90% sure it was an A&P, but I'm open to other suggestions:

Based on the shape of the sign, I'd guess an A&P that was still there following the introduction of the new logo in the 1970s, but I'm definitely not sure, and I don't even know when A&P left Columbus. The old discount/department store in the background (now a thrift store) is kind of intere...