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SFGate.com, the website of the "San Francisco Chronicle," ran an item about the Petrini's location at Masonic & Fulton in San Francisco on January 18, 2018: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/what-vintage-california-grocery-stores-looked-like-12508339.php The article says that groun...

Part of the photo archive for the "San Francisco Call-Bulletin" newspaper was donated to U.C. Berkeley's Bancroft Library. That collection apparently has photo negatives of the Market/Duboce Street Safeway store as it prepared to open in 1954. See the index listing below: New Safeway super...

Circa 1954, the "Los Angeles Herald-Express" newspaper apparently created a film, "This is Los Angeles, Your Blue Chip Market," to promote Los Angeles County to advertisers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ix2GiENpXY At around 10:10, the film shows color exterior and parking lot...

Queen Elizabeth II visited a Giant supermarket in Hyattsville/Chillum, Maryland in 1957. That store is said to have been among the first "modern" supermarkets in the Washington, D.C. area. Here is a newspaper article about the royal supermarket visit: https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=...

Here's a 1982 Lucky supermarket television commercial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ix15WsP0jg

The best part is the sung slogan at the end: "Getting back to basics. That's basic. That's Lucky."

This was a classic tagline on California television in the early 1980s.

The San Francisco Chronicle ran a brief profile of the legendary Marina Safeway at 15 Marina Blvd. in San Francisco in its March 31, 2013 edition (p. C4). This was part of the "Cityscape" series by John King. He wrote that it was built in 1959. Architect was Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons....

Richard Longstreth, an American studies professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., has published "Road Trip," a new book based on nearly 200 photos that he took across the U.S. in the late 1960s and early 1970s. An article about Prof. Longstreth's book appeared in the w...

The "Safeway News" (employee newsletter) of February 1965 reported on the opening of Safeway's third store in West Germany in December 1964. This third store was at Drosselstrasse (a.k.a. Drosselstraße) 18, Hamburg. It was Safeway's "first completely new store in Germany." The fi...

The Oakland Tribune of Wednesday, October 25, 1967 contains an advertisement for Lucky supermarkets that lists the store locations in the East Bay area of the San Francisco Bay Area. The ad touts, “91 Lucky Discount Supermarkets Serving Northern California.” Store hours were 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday...

The former Marina-style Safeway at Fruitvale & Foothill Blvd. in Oakland still stands in November 2015. It is now a Walgreens drug store.

See photo at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/50610655@N02/22601587973/

This Marina-style store has a very nice curve to its roof.

Correction: Grand opening date of Livermore, Calif. Marina-style store was May (not March) 10, 1961.

On March 10, 1961, a Marina-style Safeway store opened in Livermore, Calif. The March 10, 1961 edition of the "Livermore News" reported, "The Meat Department, which will feature only USDA Choice Grade Beef, which has been aged for maximum flavor and tenderness in Safeway's Meat Aging ...

The Safeway store in Walnut Creek, Calif. at Ygnacio Valley Road and Oak Grove Road opened on April 7, 1965, according to the “Contra Costa Times” of that date. The store is still in operation in that building as of June 2015. This Safeway building soon will be demolished and replaced with a new bui...

The Safeway store at 1771 East Capitol Expressway (at Silver Creek Road) in San Jose, California experienced two partial roof collapses during a major rainstorm on December 11, 2014. Part of the roof collapse apparently occurred above the produce section. See: http://abc7news.com/weather/safeway-roo...

Harvard University Business School's Baker Library has a brief history of Lucky Stores, Inc., 1931-68, on its website:

http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/lehman/in ... stores_inc

It is related to a 1968 financial transaction associated with Lehman Bros. investment bank.