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- 09 Mar 2009 12:02
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Extinct Supermarket Merchandise
- Replies: 177
- Views: 106395
Re: Extinct Supermarket Merchandise
Thanks, Dean.....I thought about that at 3:00 this morning......
- 08 Mar 2009 22:31
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Extinct Supermarket Merchandise
- Replies: 177
- Views: 106395
Re: Extinct Supermarket Merchandise
Alpha Beta/Skaggs Alpha Beta carried a generic line called "EconoWise"...the label was white with red and black lettering. I remember canned goods, black pepper, and paper products were available....probably more items too. How about wholesalers "controlled labels"....Allied supp...
- 22 Feb 2009 21:17
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: History of: Kmart, City of Industry CA
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8076
Re: History of: Kmart, City of Industry CA
K Mart stores in the southern part of the country had major appliance departments in the 60's and 70's.....my aunt and uncle bought a washer and dryer at one in Augusta Georgia sometime in 1968 or 1969.
- 03 Dec 2008 16:28
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
- Topic: Albuquerque, NM former pylon safeway
- Replies: 4
- Views: 13009
Re: Albuquerque, NM former pylon safeway
I was in this store last year.....very ghetto like. But I did get several interior photos and exterior photos....all the Safeway wall graphics are there as well as the original aisle markers. I'll see if I can get these photos to David in the next week or two. It was pretty trashy inside and out.......
- 27 Oct 2008 21:12
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
- Topic: Old Safeway in downtown Tulsa
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5694
Re: Old Safeway in downtown Tulsa
This building is still standing, and empty. It operated as a marina Safeway until the Oklahoma division of Safeway was sold....I believe in 1984 or 1985. It was operated as Homeland until the store permanently closed a couple of years ago. The exterior was basically untouched from the Safeway times....
- 29 Jul 2008 15:14
- Forum: History: USA Midwest/Plains
- Topic: Rapp's Chain-1959 Moscow World's Fair-St. Louis Area?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5292
Re: Rapp's Chain-1959 Moscow World's Fair-St. Louis Area?
Rich is right....Bettendorf's bought the Rapp's chain in the 1960's. After that, Schnucks bought Bettendorf's, and for a while, the stores were called Schnuck Bettendorf. I believe the name was just dropped to Schnucks sometime in the 1970's.
- 20 Feb 2008 18:15
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Jewel T - store design and range of operations
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10477
Re: Jewel T - store design and range of operations
Jewel T had several stores in Texas also. I know of six or seven in the Dallas metroplex, and also visited one in Paris, TX, a good ways from Dallas. The Texas stores that I visited were all in former grocery stores......and very small. Some of them could have even been in former drug stores.......m...
- 16 Nov 2007 17:13
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
- Topic: Gibson's in El Paso
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5829
Gibsons
The El Paso store was probably part of the others in this part of the country.....Gibson Products Company....the headquarters was in Seagoville, TX. Gibsons were all over the northern part of Texas, into Oklahoma and Kansas, and maybe other states too. They were a smaller sort of discount store. The...
- 16 Nov 2007 16:59
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
- Topic: Albuquerque Fair 'N' Square
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4608
Fair and Square-Albuquerque
Yes, this store is definately an old Safeway. I was in there last summer while on vacation.....I have several interior photos....all the original Safeway lettering is intact on the walls, and also still has the original aisle signs and markers. It's a really dirty, cluttered store, but was relativel...
- 01 Mar 2007 13:38
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: GEX/Oklahoma
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5857
In Oklahoma City, we had a GEX store.....I always heard that it stood for Government Employees Exchange....it was a membership department store, located not on but very close to Tinker Air Force Base. We never shopped there....think that you had to be either a government employee or relative.....but...
- 19 Feb 2007 11:54
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: White Cross
- Replies: 10
- Views: 16552
There were three or four White Cross drug stores around Augusta, Georgia in the late 1960's and early 1970's. One was downtown, and the other two I remember were in shopping centers with Roses. Not sure if they were related to the White Cross stores in NC that David mentioned, but these stores also ...
- 14 Feb 2007 13:10
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Department Store Gas Stations
- Replies: 38
- Views: 26177
- 14 Feb 2007 12:56
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Miscellaneous Drugstore Chain Discussion
- Replies: 25
- Views: 20745
In Texas there were Skillern's Drug Stores.......I think they were bought by a chain called Ward's Cut Rate Drugs.......Ward's Cut Rate came into Oklahoma City in the 1970's, and then later the stores were sold to Eckerds. Super X was also here for several years in the 1970's---several of them adjac...
- 08 Feb 2007 15:52
- Forum: History: USA Midwest/Plains
- Topic: Wrigley's supermarkets in Michigan
- Replies: 15
- Views: 39889
Yes, it is correct that Allied owned Humpty Dumpty supermarkets in Oklahoma, and quite possibly, Ideal Food Stores out of Liberal, KS. Humpty had been locally owned by Sylvan Goldman, the guy that invented the modern shopping cart. He sold the stores to Allied in the mid 60's, I believe. Humpty's st...
- 07 Feb 2007 15:45
- Forum: History: Shopping Centers
- Topic: Kmart Plaza Shopping Centers
- Replies: 20
- Views: 26020
This is a question that I've always kind of wondered about....were K-Mart Plaza shopping centers located all across the country, or primarily in the East and South? All the ones that I remember were in the South and East.....I had seen other shopping centers with K-Mart and a grocery store or other ...