Groceteria.com

Possible, I try to update to current versions of all addresses but I'll miss one here and there. And sometimes Google Maps itself goes off the rails (see today's Ventura post). I'll look at it when I have a minute.

For your Saturday afternoon viewing pleasure, it's back to SoCal: https://www.groceteria.com/place/california/ventura-area/ Be forewarned that some of the Google Maps links for Main Street in Ventura insist on pointing to Main Street in Santa Paula even though the correct, valid addresses are in the...

Updated t fill in the gaps between 1934 and 1959, and from 1980 to the present (though I'm still missing a few years in Tulare):

https://www.groceteria.com/place/califo ... nd-tulare/

Lots of updates to this section, including the addition of several suburban areas. Also most listings are now updated from the early 1990s to the present:

https://www.groceteria.com/place/us-mis ... nsas-city/

A few more small odds and ends will be added next year when I can get the data I need.

Updated since my October road trip with research stop in Fort Wayne:

https://www.groceteria.com/place/the-queue/

Actually, I feel like I've been slowing down a little over the past few months. It just seems like more because I'm mostly doing smaller cities that don't take as long now :)

A quick one before I leave on my big October road trip next week:

https://www.groceteria.com/place/us-illinois/aurora/

Kroger never bought the cafeterias. They continued as Big Chain for a while, then were bought by Brookshire's, who ran them until 1990-1991. Actually, I'm almost certain I ran into a newspaper ad for the cafeterias that listed them as a division of Kroger. I'll see if I can find one and post it. Up...

wnetmacman wrote: ↑02 Oct 2023 11:17Whew. That's a lot. If I think of anything else, I'll add a comment here.

This is great and incredibly helpful. Thanks! I have added notes in the list.

It's listed on the page for San Jose proper because that's how it was handled in the city directories of the time:

https://www.groceteria.com/place/califo ... 1925-1979/

This one turned out more interesting than I expected:

https://www.groceteria.com/place/us-lou ... hreveport/

Hmmm, as I’ve noted before, wouldn’t it be great if there were a website that documented chain supermarket locations like these with the Bay Area as one of its focus areas?

https://www.groceteria.com/place/califo ... y/hayward/

Yup. That’s it.

https://shop.sportsbasement.com/blogs/s ... o-presidio

Since it's on land that used to be an army base, I'm guessing that it might have been the PX.

Happy Wednesday. A quickie:

https://www.groceteria.com/place/new-york/geneva/