Now, for Kroger:
A long-lived store (listed in the table as operating from 1930-58, or even longer) was located at 2722 S Arch St. The
building itself features rather elaborate brickwork and the bas-relief inscription "19 WILD 25." I'd be curious to see if the location is listed under the Wild name in the 1925 directory...though given the lead time required for construction and canvassing, I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't earn a listing until 1927 at earliest.
The store at
3015 W. Markham (a Kroger in 1935, and Black & White in 1940-44) has a similar inscription with the message "19 ALLEN 31."
There's an intact 1940s store with a corner entrance at
1122 W 3rd St.
1815 Wright Ave is a good example of Kroger's early-1950s design, while a store at
824 W Capitol of similar vintage still has the roof-mounted pole for a vertical sign.
In addition to a being the site of a Kroger store, 7501 Baseline is also the location of a
perfectly-intact (and run down) 1960s shopping centre.
1100 E Roosevelt Rd is an odd site. A Kroger store has been in operation there from 1965 to the present...but the 1960s store might have been in the building next door to the current one. The current store has a very odd layout in any case, with a narrow frontage and very deep aisles.
6420 Colonel Glenn Rd is a must-see Frankenstein store that's open to this day! Near as I can tell, this was originally a 1970s Superstore that was paired with Wal-Mart and an adjacent drugstore. The facade was surfaced in a rough pebble-like facing rather than the usual dark brown brick used for these stores. In the early 1980s it seems that Kroger annexed the drugstore, and gave the building a Greenhouse facade. (It also was branded as "Kroger Sav-On," at least for a few years.) The greenhouse glass was later covered over, but its form remains today. The store has a cube sign, an 1980s-holdover "Pharmacy" sign, labelscar from a left-offset Kroger sign, and an adjacent shopping centre that retains the characteristic 1970s Superstore column look.
Oddly enough, the pebble-like facing seems to have been standard across the board for
all of Little Rock's Superstores...and there are
three examples that survive in operation.
8824 Geyer Springs Rd follows suit, with a cube sign to boot.
4401 Camp Robinson Road has pebble facing, a cube sign, a strange tacked-on interpretation of a Greenhouse facade,
and an 1980s "Pharmacy" sign in red-on-white. All of these are excellent relics, with interesting combinations of elements from different eras.
It's too bad that the store at
315 N Shackleford Rd closed around 2014 and had a facadectomy five years later; it was a well-preserved Greenhouse until then.
I think this might also be the first city I've looked at in depth where both Safeway Marinas and Kroger Superstores co-existed.