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by jimbobga
28 Oct 2009 02:16
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: Table of operational Kroger stores in West Virginia
Replies: 29
Views: 18133

Re: Table of operational Kroger stores in West Virginia

I'm thinking this store was built in about 1958. It looks very similar to the Welch, WV, store which opened in the Coney Island area of Welch at that time. Because the rounded chrome overhang in front of the store doesn't extend all the way to the left of the building, I'm thinking that the windowle...
by jimbobga
25 Oct 2009 01:03
Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
Topic: Rite Aid "Corner" stores
Replies: 3
Views: 8917

Re: Rite Aid "Corner" stores

Rite-Aid entered the Savannah, Georgia, market in the early eighties with four stand-alone stores. Since this stand-alone drugstore concept was new, the stores in Savannah tended to look just like the versions of drug stores seen at that time in shopping centers: flat roof lines, a plain facade, and...
by jimbobga
25 Oct 2009 00:55
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Odd layouts
Replies: 14
Views: 8750

Re: Odd layouts

The weirdest layout ever had to be the Harry's stores in the metro Atlanta area, specifically the store in Jonesboro/Morrow, GA. Once a customer was in the store, they had absolutely no idea where they were because the aisles were a total maze. Once you entered a shopping aisle, there was no choice ...
by jimbobga
21 Oct 2009 23:33
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Two chains, same name, same state
Replies: 7
Views: 4531

Two chains, same name, same state

This has gotten me to wondering about how two grocery chains which share the same name but are totally unrelated to each other can operate in the same state. I know of a couple of instances in retail recently where the owner of a store could not use the name they had chosen originally because there ...
by jimbobga
27 Aug 2009 01:01
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: Kroger (and ex-Kroger) stores in southern West Virginia
Replies: 15
Views: 23289

Re: Kroger (and ex-Kroger) stores in southern West Virginia

You're right about the architecture in Pocahontas; since it began in the late 1800's, much of the architecture - including commercial buildings downtown - were Victorian. I was about right in estimating when Kroger closed. Sometime within the last 50 years the name of the street was changed, or it w...
by jimbobga
26 Aug 2009 02:37
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: Kroger (and ex-Kroger) stores in southern West Virginia
Replies: 15
Views: 23289

Re: Kroger (and ex-Kroger) stores in southern West Virginia

I'm having to picture something as I remember it from about 1965. I can remember what the building looked like, but I can't positively place which side of the street it was on. The store would have been located on either the northeast corner of Center and Church Streets. The building was one of thos...
by jimbobga
20 Aug 2009 18:15
Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
Topic: Which chain once occupied these identical buildings?
Replies: 11
Views: 7572

Re: Which chain once occupied these identical buildings?

A building exactly like this one was built in Savannah, Georgia around 1980. It was located on Hodgson Memorial Drive, immediately east of Oglethorpe Mall. As the building was being constructed, a sign out front said "Coming Soon....Coco's." When the restaurant opened, it was instead a loc...
by jimbobga
27 May 2009 23:32
Forum: History: Department Store Chains
Topic: W.W. Mac Co.
Replies: 2
Views: 3621

Re: W.W. Mac Co.

With the exception of the Bainbridge, GA; North Carolina, and Ohio stores, the rest of these stores seem to be kind of grouped closely together, although the Cocoa, FL, store is over 100 miles away from Lake Wales and Sebring, which are in the center of the state. The Virginia stores aren't that far...
by jimbobga
23 May 2009 01:43
Forum: History: Department Store Chains
Topic: W.W. Mac Co.
Replies: 2
Views: 3621

W.W. Mac Co.

In downtown Cocoa, Florida, was a five-and-ten cent store called W. W. Mac Co. The building was apparently built in the twenties since it was of the stucco-Spanish style of architecture so common in commercial and residential construction of that era in Central Florida. True to form, the red-and-gol...
by jimbobga
23 May 2009 01:26
Forum: History: USA Southeast
Topic: Macon Georgia area History (Winn-Dixie)
Replies: 10
Views: 13661

Re: Macon Georgia area History (Winn-Dixie)

This will answer a question asked almost three years ago. While "Fried Green Tomatoes" was partially filmed in Senoia, GA, you're right...there was never a Winn-Dixie store in Senoia. The only grocery store in Senoia was [and still is] Crook's Marketplace. The parking lot scene in the movi...
by jimbobga
12 Apr 2009 00:18
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: A&P stores, Princeton, WV
Replies: 4
Views: 8177

Re: A&P stores, Princeton, WV

The A&P on Mercer Street certainly pre-dates me [1951], and I would imagine early 40's is pretty much on the mark. This store - at least from 1956 - always had a brick front. I don't ever remember it being covered with anything, nor painted. The sign above the windows was not the gold-and-red &q...
by jimbobga
02 Apr 2009 00:40
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: Road Trip Photos
Replies: 6
Views: 4835

Re: Road Trip Photos

I could be totally wrong on this one, but the St. Albans Fas-Chek looks identical to the first Heck's discount store that opened in Bluefield, WV. in the early sixties, right down to the color of the brick. It's hard to tell how large this store is, but the early Heck's stores were about the same si...
by jimbobga
10 Mar 2009 02:28
Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
Topic: Kentucky Roast Beef?
Replies: 27
Views: 18156

Re: Kentucky Roast Beef?

In response to "The Questioner" regarding if there were any other roast beef chains that got started during the late sixties and early seventies that no longer exist...there was a chain in Florida called Beefy King. The red-and-gold signs with a crown at the top were a lot more impressive ...
by jimbobga
08 Mar 2009 01:38
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Pic-n-Save/Setzers
Replies: 8
Views: 7504

Re: Pic-n-Save/Setzers

PIc 'n Save did operate in Georgia. There was a Pic 'n Save in Jesup, Georgia, on US 25/301 in the downtown area. I only saw this store while it was open a couple of times, and it looked smaller than the Pic 'n Save stores in Jacksonville, so it most likely had been a Setzer's supermarket when it wa...
by jimbobga
08 Mar 2009 01:31
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Grocers in "real" malls - not strip malls
Replies: 79
Views: 71332

Re: Grocers in "real" malls - not strip malls

Two malls in Brevard County, Florida, had supermarkets "inside" the mall. The Brevard Mall on Babcock Street did indeed have a Winn Dixie that had entrances from both the parking lot and the main mall corridor. The mall opened in the early sixties, but was not an enclosed mall when it open...