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The following Sears locations in the San Francisco Bay Area of California are from a Sunday advertisement in the Oakland Tribune in early October of 1982: Antioch – County East Mall Concord – Sun Valley Mall Cupertino – Vallco Fashion Park Eastridge – Tully Rd. at Quimby Hayward – Southland Mall Mtn...

Buy & Save was a grocery store chain that operated in the San Diego area in the late 1950s. The San Diego Union of Thursday, November 12, 1959 contained an advertisement for the chain. Buy & Save locations listed in the ad were: (1) San Diego – 54th & University; (2) Chula Vista – 685 Br...

Food Basket was a division of Lucky Stores, Inc. in the late 1950s. An ad for Food Basket ran in the San Diego Union of Thursday, November 12, 1959. Store locations were at: (1) College Center – 6061 El Cajon Blvd. at College; (2) Point Loma - Talbot St. and Catalina Blvd.; (3) Pacific Beach – 4516 ...

All-American Superama apparently was a two-store grocery store chain in the San Diego area in 1959. An ad ran in the San Diego Union of Thursday, November 12, 1959. The two locations of "All-American SUPERAMA" were: (1) San Diego 5065 Logan, near Euclid and (2) Lakeside Woodside & Chan...

There was a "Big Bear" grocery store chain in the San Diego area, according to the San Diego Union of November 12, 1959. The slogan in the ad was "Big Bear for Big Buys!" "Big Bear" locations listed in the ad were: (1) 836 Palm Avenue in Imperial Beach; (2) 2320 Fletche...

A&P Super Markets had an advertisement in the San Diego Union of November 12, 1959. It touted the "100th Birthday Celebration" of "The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company" and "1859 America’s Dependable Food Merchant 1959". Four locations were listed in the San...

The San Diego Union of November 12, 1959 included an advertisement for "The Market Basket" supermarket chain. The slogan was “The MARKET BASKET” – “WE PUNCH MORE OF THE SMALL KEYS at the MARKET BASKET”. A photo in the ad showed the "keys" (or buttons) of a cash register that appa...

De Falco's apparently was a small grocery store chain in the San Diego area in the late 1950s. The San Diego Union of November 12, 1959 featured an ad for "De Falco's Five Store CHEESE SALE Extravaganza." The store slogan was "FINE FOODS SINCE 1910." The main cheese featured was ...

A Piggly Wiggly advertisement appeared in the November 12, 1959 edition of the San Diego Union . The slogan for Piggly Wiggly was “YOUR HOME TOWN GROCER --- Since 1922”. The ad listed the following the store locations: (1) 4025 Goldfinch, San Diego (2) 4767 Palm Ave., La Mesa (3) 3209 Thorn St., San...

The Thursday, November 12, 1959 edition of the San Diego Union contains many advertisements for supermarkets and grocery stores in the San Diego area. I will post information from each one separately. Mayfair ran a two-page ad. Pork was the main special, "spareribs or smoked picnics," &quo...

I just learned about a 1972 book that analyzes commercial architecture in Las Vegas, including supermarkets. Learning from Las Vegas is by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour. I just saw an oblique reference to it in a Los Angeles Times article by architecture critic Christopher Ha...

The first two Orange County locations of Mervyn's opened in October 1975. They possibly were the first Mervyn's stores in southern California. Their locations were: (1) 9811 Adams Ave., Huntington Beach and (2) Fullerton Crossroads Shopping Center, 3204 East Yorba Linda Blvd., Fullerton. A newspaper...

A Lucerne milk carton from 1984 can be seen three times in the ABC television network's fall 1984 promotion "We're with you." See: http://www.youtube.com/user/VintageTelevision#p/u/7/6_qAQ9ADkG4 See: 5:58 and 6:38 and 6:42. ABC apparently made no effort to conceal the brand or to make a fa...

Pleasanton, Calif. is the headquarters of Safeway, Inc. It will have a second Safeway store by late 2011, approved in August 2010 by the Pleasanton Planning Commission. It will be a 58,000 square-foot "Lifestyle" Safeway, located at Valley and Bernal near Interstate 680. Safeway will have ...

I have found a reference to a "National Association of Food Chains" circa 1957. If anyone finds their newsletters or reports (assuming that any ever were produced), I'm sure that they contain a "gold mine" of information. I learned about the "NAFC" from a reference to a...