Do Safeway's 1960s "abstract food" graphics still exist...anywhere?
Posted: 22 Sep 2021 19:42
While perusing the archives of the Winnipeg Tribune for store opening dates and such, I happened upon a photo of a Safeway store interior taken in 1976. Of course, my eye was immediately drawn to the graphic on the wall behind:
Do these wonderful 1960s "abstract food" wall graphics still exist...anywhere? Even off the wall, dismantled and in storage?
A Safeway in Maryland had the graphics until it closed in 2006. A pylon-turned-Centromart in Stockton, California kept them until 2011. But now it's 2021. It seriously crushes and depresses me to think that every single one of these 1960s-mod graphics, once proudly displayed in hundreds of stores across the U.S. and Canada alike, have been destroyed.
Do these wonderful 1960s "abstract food" wall graphics still exist...anywhere? Even off the wall, dismantled and in storage?
A Safeway in Maryland had the graphics until it closed in 2006. A pylon-turned-Centromart in Stockton, California kept them until 2011. But now it's 2021. It seriously crushes and depresses me to think that every single one of these 1960s-mod graphics, once proudly displayed in hundreds of stores across the U.S. and Canada alike, have been destroyed.