Re: Madison, Wisconsin chain grocery/supermarket history
Posted: 12 Jan 2020 13:12
Here's something I happened upon today: https://old.reddit.com/r/madisonwi/comm ... ison_1960/
Footage of the Westgate Mall on Whitney Way upon its 1960 opening, including some shots of an arch-roofed Piggly Wiggly store! By 1972 (per the table) this had converted to being an Eagle store. I don't really know what happened to it after that: The address wasn't listed at all in the 1985 Madison city directory, and it surely never was a Kohl's in spite of what the Reddit thread says.
The building itself still stood as late as summer 2011: The Google car captured it in this shot, with the curved roofline barely visible behind a false front. It was gone by the time I moved to the city a year later, and a brand new Hy-Vee was in the midst of being erected on the same spot.
Footage of the Westgate Mall on Whitney Way upon its 1960 opening, including some shots of an arch-roofed Piggly Wiggly store! By 1972 (per the table) this had converted to being an Eagle store. I don't really know what happened to it after that: The address wasn't listed at all in the 1985 Madison city directory, and it surely never was a Kohl's in spite of what the Reddit thread says.
The building itself still stood as late as summer 2011: The Google car captured it in this shot, with the curved roofline barely visible behind a false front. It was gone by the time I moved to the city a year later, and a brand new Hy-Vee was in the midst of being erected on the same spot.