Driving down State St. in Marysville, I noticed first a Schucks that looks suspiciously like a Gable Safeway. Thoughts?
A little less than a mile down, is a typical 2000-era Safeway with a good example of a Lifestyle Mark I remodel.
And just a few hundred yards from that store is what looks like a 70's era Safeway. The biggest tip is the sign shape along the street. Again, thoughts?
========== Aaron "his foxtail-wielding skills are unparalleled, dust bunnies fear his name"
submariner wrote:Driving down State St. in Marysville, I noticed first a Schucks that looks suspiciously like a Gable Safeway. Thoughts?
Tempting indeed, but a lot of those gables in the northwest have an annoying tendency to turn out to be Albertsons locations too. I've been fooled on a couple of occasions. Unfortunately, I don't have access to all my photos right now to see if I can find any comparisons.
submariner wrote:Driving down State St. in Marysville, I noticed first a Schucks that looks suspiciously like a Gable Safeway. Thoughts?
Tempting indeed, but a lot of those gables in the northwest have an annoying tendency to turn out to be Albertsons locations too. I've been fooled on a couple of occasions. Unfortunately, I don't have access to all my photos right now to see if I can find any comparisons.
I could be, since there's a newer Albertsons across the street, so both are within close proximity.
Did Albertsons use sharp-point gables? All the older ones I've seen use the rounded-point gable... but I've seen very few older Albertsons, so I could have just missed it...
========== Aaron "his foxtail-wielding skills are unparalleled, dust bunnies fear his name"
Jeff wrote:It looks like a gable Safeway, as S A F E W A Y fits perfectly in the window spaces.
I agree it was probably a Safeway, but just wanted to bring up the Albertsons thing, as it's come up before. When I looked at the photo again, I noticed it's asymmetrical. There are four glass panes left of center and five right, which struck me as a little odd. It also makes the brick/stone wall on the right smaller than the one on the left.
You're also right that its replacement was up the street at Marysville Plaza (the center where Jo-Ann Fabrics is located), but Safeway occupied the larger Value Village space. Pay 'n Save was where the pet store is now. I'm not sure what was in Jo-Ann's location.
Agreed, brilliant find on those photos! I wondered about the Value Village and should have gotten a shot of that, oh well. Still, interesting to see three generations still standing.
========== Aaron "his foxtail-wielding skills are unparalleled, dust bunnies fear his name"