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Food Fair Gas Stations

Posted: 25 Aug 2006 18:33
by Steve Landry
Found this tooling around Time Magazine archives:

"Posted Monday, Aug. 31, 1959

SUPERMARKET GAS stations will be constructed by Food Fair chain (sixth biggest in U.S.) on parking lots of its 400 stores. Plan calls for 24 stations within a year, others later. "

1959 folks...............amazing!

Posted: 25 Aug 2006 21:03
by Dave
The Food Fair on W. Broad Street in Richmond had a gas station. I believe it was the first Food Fair in Richmond (c. 1960).

Re: Food Fair Gas Stations

Posted: 26 Aug 2006 00:29
by Edric Floyd
Steve Landry wrote:Found this tooling around Time Magazine archives:

"Posted Monday, Aug. 31, 1959

SUPERMARKET GAS stations will be constructed by Food Fair chain (sixth biggest in you.S.) on parking lots of its 400 stores. Plan calls for 24 stations within a year, others later. "

1959 folks...............amazing!

Hmmm, don't tell Kroger this. (They may actually believe that they invented the supermarket "Fuel Center" concept) LOL.