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From Flickr searching, found these intriguing specimens...

"Top Valu" in I think San Pedro, somehow I don't think this was the original tenant...
http://flickr.com/photos/_blue_/246696495/

A new store built in Compton last year, after 13 years of political wrangling...no identification here as to who though:
http://flickr.com/photos/hispanicpundit/35290729/

Spencer's in Morro Bay, there's a chance this was always Spencer's...but I'm not sure
http://flickr.com/photos/southerncalifornian/247449314/

Robin's Food Mart, Hollywood:
http://flickr.com/photos/artoftheodd/14807723/

The Ralphs in Westwood Village, an Ansel Adams photo from many years ago - anyone know if this store is standing still and what address it was/is?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/1000photos ... 113813806/

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Here's a store I discovered while looking through Live Local: Notrica's Market, East Highland at Sterling in San Bernardino:
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2& ... ene=751761

Another one I discovered: a Ross across from Vons, on the 3030 block of S. Sepulveda Blvd. in Los Angeles proper...it's got an old-school pylon...

http://local.live.com/?v=2&sp=Point.pp4 ... d%20States___

Subdivided building with barrel roof on Garden Grove Boulevard, near a Hannam Market World:
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2& ... ne=6845059

I have another one which has been eluding me in So Cal.

Its on Imperial Highway and Meyer Rd, between Norwalk and La Mirada. It currently is a Big Lots, and was a Pic N Save for years. Name this market:

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2& ... ne=6566929

TheStranger wrote:The Ralphs in Westwood Village, an Ansel Adams photo from many years ago - anyone know if this store is standing still and what address it was/is?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/1000photos ... 113813806/

It's still there but no longer a grocery store. It's on the corner of Westwood and Lindbrook. See this post of mine: http://www.groceteria.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=494

Another one I discovered: a Ross across from Vons, on the 3030 block of S. Sepulveda Blvd. in Los Angeles proper...it's got an old-school pylon...

To my knowledge this was never a grocery store, or if it was it was before the mid-70s when I was a kid in the area. It was a Cooper's home improvement store, then a Builders Emporium. See my comment in this post: http://www.groceteria.com/board/viewtop ... highlight=

Edit: Some other things to point out about the Ross... The addition to the left of the pylon was made when the store became a Ross. Previously that area was Builders' outdoor garden center. The building with parking ramp right behind the Ross was an Akron, then a Circuit City but it's been closed for several years. In the past it has opened seasonally as a Halloween/Christmas store.

Hey guys, in your expert wanderings and research, have you stumbled across anything that would suggest the existence of a grocery store chain in Los Angeles called Fox Markets?

They had 50 stores in Los Angeles and 25 stores in Las Vegas. Their headquarters were in the N.E or S.E. area of downtown L.A.

Food Fair purchased this company in the early 1960's? I am guessing that Fox might have a history that elbows Mayfair? I have uncovered a few court cases that mention Mayfair, Fox and other big chains of that time period.

Your thought?

Steve :)

Steve, email me at my username at yahoo.com. I just looked in the LA Times archives and found several articles about Fox Markets. I can't post them for copyright reasons but I can get them to you one way or another.

I was wrong about the Ross not ever being a grocery store. A Ralphs opened at the corner of National and Sepulveda in November 1949. So that's probably the Ross store. The LA Times article about the opening said the store carried "more than 5000 items for local housewives to choose from." (Apparently ending a sentence in a preposition was OK in 1949.)