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(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...

Moved to Commercial Archaeology, since it's about this specifuc location rather than the chain as a whole.

It sure looks a lot like this location, unless they built more than one store with this prototype; http://www.groceteria.com/stockton/gallery/pages/Image22.html http://www.groceteria.com/stockton/gallery/pages/Image23.html Agreed. It's the only one in Stockton that apparently was built from the gro...

TheStranger wrote:Is it a complete refinish or is it just that the roof paint has faded from years of exposure?

I honestly don't know. I just noticed that the color in the photo (which I took myself) is most definitely not yellow. Could be a trick of the light, I guess, but it looks like too extreme a color shift.

Finallly remembered the picture:



This was taken in May 2005, I thought I remembered the roof still being its original yellow, but it doesn't seem so from this picture. I'm pretty sure it was yellow as recently as a couple of years ago.

Of interest in the vintage SSF location: they still have the video monitors installed in the front counter from a failed (?) early 1990s experiment with touch screen ordering at certain Arby's stores in the Bay Area. The now closed location at Westlake in Daly City had these as well. Just like today...

Arby's, no question at all.

One of the very few unmodified stores of this prototype (with its original cowboy hat sign as well) os located on El Camino Real in either South San Francisco or San Bruno CA. I may have a photo somewhere, but it's too late for me to look for it tonight.

Anyone know more about this concept? I think this photo dates back to the 1970s. As it happens, I picked up a book on the history of Walgreens when I was in Chcago a few weeks ago. The Schnucks-Walgreens partnership began in 1976, with the first store in Cape Girardeau MO, a suburb of St. Louis. Th...

Correct me if I'm worng, but isn't the Lucky purchase of Lee Bros. the point where Lucky came to have the Lady Lee store brand as well?

That was originally a Mayfair Market that opened in 1952 and closed for an unknown reason (I think even acording to the newspaper article) in 1961 Interestingly, when I went back and checked the date, the city directory source I used placed it as a Piggly Wiggly in 1955. I also show a Mayfair Marke...

TheStranger wrote:Wow, Redwood City? Where was that Piggly Wiggly located?

Upon my last visit it was an Office Depot, right near the El Camino/Woodside Road interchange (1950 El Camino).

There are still MCL cafeterias in parts of the midwest (Columbus and Indianapolis to name a few), but they're not very good and they seem to be nearing the end of their lifespan. Atlanta (and much of Florida) suffered greatly when Morrisons was acquired by Piccadilly. The S&S cafeterias of SC an...

Piggly Wiggly apparently had a bit of a short-lived franchise boom in the early-mid 1960s, when they popped up in such far-flung locations as Redwood City CA and Greensboro NC after having disappeared from these markets decades before. I think a lot of these stores closed (or dropped the franchise) ...

I've split the various Middletown stores posts into a separate topic since they'd sort of ceased to be about Safeway locations:

http://www.groceteria.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=810

Wow. Nice stuff...