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Oakland: Safeway, 2096 Mountain Boulevard
There's a photo of this store up at Groceteria:
http://www.groceteria.com/safeway/slide ... ge/10.html

googlemaps: http://tinyurl.com/y4a9oo

It was remodeled relatively recently:
http://www.architecturalnetwork.com/Pro ... ay-oak.htm

Now here's the fun part. From the same issue of Chain Store Age (July 1961) as the geodesic Marin-area store, comes this gem (on the very next page, as a matter of fact, page E31): artist's depictions of the store before it opened.

Notable features include the Circle S on the small stone area where a Square S would later until the front refacing, and the usage of the 1960s-1970s Safeway lettering (which was probably taken down in the 1980s for the rectangular lighted sign) on the front.

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more: http://dtcwrt.earlracing.com/stores/csa ... tclair.jpg
Chris Sampang
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Er, why is their "Before the remodel" pic exactly the same as the one on Groceteria?
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