475 Pim, Sault Ste. Marie, ON: Former Safeway Marina?
Posted: 01 May 2023 20:26
Several years ago, a former resident gave me a tip-off that a Marina-type Safeway store once existed in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.
This was unexpected. Safeway didn't enter the GTA until the post-Marina era, and a Sault store would have had to have been supplied from Winnipeg if it had opened in advance of that: Talk about logistic difficulties! He also didn't give an address, and told me that he thought the building had been demolished.
But I was in the city today, and stumbled upon a slightly-expanded supermarket-like building with a rear roofline that was a bit interesting: This is at 475 Pim Street.
From 1990 to 2000, the Sault city directories list this address as a Golden Mile Loeb IGA store. Vernon directories of the 1970s and 1980s don't have classified listings, so I wasn't able to untangle the earlier history of the location. But this news article on the property calls it "the old Safeway/Loeb grocery store."
Thoughts?
This was unexpected. Safeway didn't enter the GTA until the post-Marina era, and a Sault store would have had to have been supplied from Winnipeg if it had opened in advance of that: Talk about logistic difficulties! He also didn't give an address, and told me that he thought the building had been demolished.
But I was in the city today, and stumbled upon a slightly-expanded supermarket-like building with a rear roofline that was a bit interesting: This is at 475 Pim Street.
From 1990 to 2000, the Sault city directories list this address as a Golden Mile Loeb IGA store. Vernon directories of the 1970s and 1980s don't have classified listings, so I wasn't able to untangle the earlier history of the location. But this news article on the property calls it "the old Safeway/Loeb grocery store."
Thoughts?