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- 09 Jan 2012 06:08
- Forum: History: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: DEFUNCT Home Improvement Chains
- Replies: 34
- Views: 59624
Re: DEFUNCT Home Improvement Chains
There was of course Builder's Square. I remember one in Saginaw — 1/3 of it is still empty. Another was in Flint. About 90% of the store became Jo-Ann Fabrics, Old Navy and Bed Bath & Beyond. This left a skinny little store in the middle which became a discount bookstore. It still had concrete f...
- 09 Jan 2012 04:17
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: Frankenstein Kroger store (St. Albans, WV)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6067
Re: Frankenstein Kroger store (St. Albans, WV)
The turrets used to be entryways to a small mall.
- 09 Jan 2012 04:16
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Rite-Aid Sign Replacements for Acquired Chains
- Replies: 33
- Views: 44457
Re: Rite-Aid Sign Replacements for Acquired Chains
For comparison, the few Rite Aids around here that opened as such have signs similar to the PA/DE ones shown above: the Rite Aid pentagon followed by [Pharmacy] on a white tab. As I mentioned, Oscoda has had 3 Rite Aids in time. The second one had the pentagon and "pharmacy" in blue, but a...
- 09 Jan 2012 04:04
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Early Walgreens stores in Michigan
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13853
Re: Early Walgreens stores in Michigan
A little more searching shows that Walgreens also had mall based stores in Flint in at least Eastland (now Courtland) and Dort Mall. By the late 70s, these were both Perry. Genesee Valley also had a Perry for a while, so I wonder if it was a Walgreens too.
- 09 Jan 2012 03:51
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Zody's
- Replies: 88
- Views: 77223
Re: Zody's
These are all the Yankee stores I found. Some came from an Ebony magazine ad that only had the city names. A little more digging shows that they were founded in Flint in 1948. The Flint ones were paired with Hamady supermarkets, but after they sold to Borman (then-owners of Farmer Jack) in 1965, man...
- 08 Jan 2012 16:08
- Forum: History: USA Midwest/Plains
- Topic: Northern Michigan A&P's
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9104
Re: Northern Michigan A&P's
Bumping to add a few: * East Tawas — 115 Newman St. Closed in the mid 70s. Still listed as A&P in 1971, but was called "Brugger's East" in 1976 (Brugger's was a supermarket in nearby Tawas City that closed in the early 80s). Later a department store called Mill End, then an ACE Hardwar...
- 06 Jan 2012 22:09
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Odd A&P architecture
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6141
Re: Odd A&P architecture
Essexville's store was probably more distinctive because it was at the other end of the mall and not accessible from within the mall itself (it's on the west end of the mall, behind the west anchor, which was Weichmann's). Kmart itself had the ribbed walls I've seen on some 1970s Kmarts, and actuall...
- 05 Jan 2012 03:06
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Odd A&P architecture
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6141
Re: Odd A&P architecture
By which I assume you mean the architecture of the Essexville store? (There was a Kmart at the other end of the mall.)rich wrote:Post-centennial, A&P built a lot of stores like the brown one.
- 03 Jan 2012 21:31
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Odd A&P architecture
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6141
Re: Odd A&P architecture
The brown store next to it probably dates to just before the beginning of the Centennial era then. I know my grandmother remembers A&P being downtown in her youth, and she turned 13 in 1950. The downtown store was probably postwar, because I know they had an even smaller store downtown in the 30...
- 03 Jan 2012 17:22
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Older KFC Locations
- Replies: 28
- Views: 40295
Re: Older KFC Locations
Where in Turlock was this?Buckethead wrote:Speaking of old KFCs, in Turlock in1980 there was a KFC between 2 houses in a residential neighborhood! Bizarre & god only knows how they got a permit for it or why they thought it was a good idea. Dad laughed when we went there, and rightfully so.
- 03 Jan 2012 15:57
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Walmart in-store restaurants
- Replies: 17
- Views: 27984
Re: Walmart in-store restaurants
^ That might explain why Malvern had the snack bar shoved in the back. Kmartwise, Flint—Dort Hwy. is the only store I know of that ripped out the snack bar entirely. I don't remember Grayling (also a 9000 store built around the same time as Oscoda) ever having a snack bar, nor do I remember Grand Bl...
- 03 Jan 2012 01:37
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Odd A&P architecture
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6141
Re: Odd A&P architecture
When did they stop building the colonial stores?
Before this store opened, A&P was in the brown store seen on the left side of this picture, where a drugstore later was. I can verify that they were there before 1965, and are still listed there in 1971. They were in the green store by 1976.
Before this store opened, A&P was in the brown store seen on the left side of this picture, where a drugstore later was. I can verify that they were there before 1965, and are still listed there in 1971. They were in the green store by 1976.
- 02 Jan 2012 19:10
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Walmart in-store restaurants
- Replies: 17
- Views: 27984
Re: Walmart in-store restaurants
All the ones that I remember Walmart-wise were in the front. However, I do seem to recall going to one somewhere that had the Radio Grill just randomly shoved in the back, near a clothing section. I think it was Malvern, AR, which has since moved. Kmart was the same way with their snack bars. Willia...
- 02 Jan 2012 18:51
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Odd A&P architecture
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6141
Odd A&P architecture
I might have asked this before, but I can't recall. Our A&P here in Oscoda, MI moved in the mid-1970s to their fourth and final location, which looks like this . It looked exactly the same its entire life — when A&P started closing stores in 1992, it became Big Valu for a few months, then Ca...
- 08 Dec 2011 22:59
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Walmart in-store restaurants
- Replies: 17
- Views: 27984
Re: Walmart in-store restaurants
The Walmart in Battle Creek, MI lost its McDonald's in the early 2000s. Instead of turning it into a Subway or Radio Grill, they gutted it for the customer service desk. More recently, the store went Supercenter and added Subway. They also did an interesting thing with the one in the Alpena Walmart....