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Here's another view of the Safeway "Marina-style" store in Red Bluff, California, now the main Tehama County Library building: http://www.tehamacountylibrary.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4 That library will move to a new building in the next couple of years. I h...

The "San Francisco Chronicle" has an article about the imminent closure of the International Super Store/Payless/Long's/CVS at Broadway & 51st St. in Oakland's Rockridge district:

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/C ... 552134.php

Justin Karimzad referred earlier in this message string to the Food Bowl on McKee Road in San Jose, Calif. There are 1950s or '60s photos of this supermarket on Calisphere: http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt667nf3pf/ http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt1m3nf279/ http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/1...

The Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza in Los Angeles, Calif. claims to be "the oldest regional shopping center in operation in the United States." It opened in 1947. See: http://www.baldwinhillscrenshawplaza.com/about The shopping center is located at the intersection of Crenshaw Blvd. and Mart...

I visited the former Rockridge Payless store at the Broadway/51st St./Pleasant Valley intersection on Oakland, Calif. on August 23, 2013. It is now a CVS store. Much of the cavernous interior is no longer used as retail space. It just sits empty with shelving restricting customers from accessing tha...

The Safeway Marina-style store on the Oakland/Berkeley border (College at Claremont) has been demolished. Demolition happened sometime between mid-March 2013 and mid-August 2013. Construction is underway on the replacement store.

Here is a photo of the Piggly Wiggly store on Piedmont Avenue in Oakland, Calif. in the 1920s:
http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt729026bm/

Here is a photo of the MacMarr chain grocery store at 474 Oakland Avenue, Oakland, Calif. circa 1930:
http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt809nd6wv/

MacMarr merged into the Safeway chain.

Someone has posted a digitized home movie on YouTube of the Livermore, Calif. Alpha Beta supermarket under construction in 1968. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fn5X6jhaDs Go to 12:45 and watch the next fifteen seconds. This shopping center at Railroad & P is now the Dollar Tree/24 Fitness...

I have posted photos from 2011 of the interior and exterior of the "Marina style" Safeway supermarket on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, California: https://www.flickr.com/photos/50610655@N02/ These photos were taken in August 2011. I believe that the remodeling project on that store is now c...

The Daily Review (Hayward, Calif.) reports that demolition of the former Romley's Market (previously a Mayfair Market?) in San Lorenzo is imminent: "Across the street at the San Lorenzo Village Square, demolition is scheduled by June of several structures built by Bohannon's grandfather in the ...

An Oakland Tribune advertisement in January 1963 listed five Mayfair locations in the East San Francisco Bay Area (three of which were open 24 hours): 1. OAKLAND – Broadway & MacArthur (open 24 hours) 2. EL CERRITO – 11600 San Pablo Ave. (open 24 hours) 3. CONCORD – 1701 Willow Pass Road 4. HAYW...

J.C. Penney Store Locations – East San Francisco Bay Area, Calif. – early 1963 From an advertisement in the Oakland Tribune in January 1963: 1. ALAMEDA (South Shore Center) 2. CONCORD (Park and Shop) 3. BERKELEY (Downtown) 4. HAYWARD (on the Strip) 5. OAKLAND (Downtown) 6. SAN LEANDRO (at the Plaza...

LOUIS STORES GROCERY CHAIN – LOCATIONS IN EAST BAY/VALLEJO – EARLY 1963 (from an Oakland Tribune advertisement in January 1963) Are any of these buildings still in existence today? Are any still grocery stores? 1. ALAMO – Alamo Plaza – Danville Highway 2. BERKELEY – 2517 Sacramento Street 3. BERKEL...

Safeway, Inc. apparently operated 65 stores in the East San Francisco Bay Area in early 1963. These stores were listed in an Oakland Tribune advertisement for Safeway in January 1963. The twenty-five stores in Oakland are at the far bottom of this post. The following forty Safeway stores were locate...