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http://groceteria.com/forboard/7200nclark.jpg Corner of Clark and Touhy. I'm completely clueless on this one, but I feel almost certain it was a chain supermarket from the 1940s. The door arrangement (not immediately visible in the photo) suggests A&P, but nothing else about the building really...

This resembles some old Jewel photos I've seen, but I'm not familiar enough with the prototype to make the call. Anyone want to confirm?

Currently a very interesting Kosher Hungarian market, which has expanded into the bank space next door as well.

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Mid Century Mod wrote:I am not sure whether it would be using proper "internet etiquette" to mention the name of said blog here on Groceteria........so I will refrain from doing so

Please go right ahead. I'm sure we'd all love to see it.

Did any chains, including Safeway, ever use a marina-style store where the arches ran across the side, instead of the front of the store? Yes. McDonald's. Just kidding. I think French's in Tennessee had a prototype with decorative (but probably not structural) arches on all four sides of the buildi...

The longest operating one *I* know about was the one at Fruit & McKinley here in Fresno that operated as a Safeway until 1996? when they sold the remaining skeleton of their Fresno division to Save Mart. That store is STILL operating as Save Mart, and continues to be a moneymaker for them. The ...

I've split off the posts about converted Safeway pylon stores into a new topic here:

http://www.groceteria.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=672

Feel free to continue along with the original topic here.

Safeway was my first thought as well. The other "possible" that came to mind would be Food Fair, but I think they arrived too late in Richmond for this to be one of theirs.

I am curious to know if this store was remodeled to a Marina style store later on, what would have been the reason? Pretty much for the same reasons they continue doing so today: increased square footage, better layout, and updated appearance. Most older Safeway stores that are still open have been...

Another market in Winnetka is The Grand Food Center. http://winnetkaillinois.net/grandfoodcenter.html you don't see large chain stores using these size store anymore either. Too bad they don't have their own websites I'm always curious on how long they've existed and whether or not they were constr...

A few clarifications and requests: 1. Please limit the number of photos that are actually DISPLAYED in your post. One or two per page is one thing, but when people start including 6 or 7 pictures per post, the number of photos on the page adds up fast. This presents a real problem for people who are...

The glass-front, arched roof design is not really peculiar to Safeway. Any number of chains and independents around the country used some form of it; it was a construction-dictated design, as it allowed a large column-free sales floor. It's not really a stretch to go from the rounded-roof pylon stor...

Thanks. Any others? I leave on Saturday. Are any other Dominick's stores old and worthy of a look? Any neighborhood commercial strips I shouldn't miss? And what parts of Chicago should I flat out avoid? I've spent some time there in the past, but it's been almost ten years and I'm not usre how much ...

TheStranger wrote:Here's a former Safeway and Thrifty now being used as a swap meet center in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa, as photographed by Roadsidepictures in 2003.

It woiuldn't surprise me in the least if this had originally been a Safeway/Super S combo, based on the uniform architecture.

We recently had our house sprayed by the exterminator, and afterward the whole place smelled exactly like the entrance to a Kmart or Woolworth's used to. We determined that smell was either stale popcorn, stale candy, or a combination of the two (caramel corn, maybe?).