A big discovery: 1976 Safeway California map!
Posted: 18 Oct 2006 17:09
While perusing my university's library, I discovered that they had in their collection a 1976 California roadmap from Gousha, with a twist: every one of the 550+ Safeway locations in the state at the time - both Norcal and SoCal - was marked down.
I've photocopied the map (not sure it is available for borrowing, otherwise I would think about scanning it in color at my place) and will do a thorough examination of its contents probably starting tonight; and later see if I can get Live Local shots of some of the San Diego/Greater Los Angeles/City of San Francisco locations mentioned that have not been covered yet in any form. (For those locations outside those three areas of the state, Googlemaps overheads will do, and some of the stores of course have already been covered on this site, my pages, and Charles Hathaway's.)
One twist is that as a relatively compact basic roadmap, the Safeways were not listed by address at all, but rather simply by the Circle S symbol and an arrow pointing to the general vicinity of the store on the map itself. As a result, once I start posting the list of locations I've gleaned from it, there will be instances I can only approximate where a store might be. Having said that, this will be a boon for finding previously undiscovered sites, especially in rural areas.
The entire state has its own map, of course (split in two because the map's size couldn't handle the entire state being presented lengthwise). Insets are as follows:
San Francisco Bay Area (northernmost extent is Petaluma, easternmost is Antioch and Livermore, southernmost is Monterey and Salinas)
Greater Los Angeles (northernmost extent is Newhall, westernmost extent is Malibu Beach, easternmost extent is Redlands or so - not sure how far the copier at the library covered, and southernmost extent is Capistrano Beach)
Palm Springs area (Beaumont east to Palm Desert)
San Diego (northernmost extent is La Jolla/Route 52, westernmost extent is Point Loma, southernmost extent is the southern Route 75/I-5 interchange, easternmost extent is La Cresta and Jamul)
Sacramento (westernmost extent is the current I-80/US 50 interchange in West Sacramento, southernmost extent is Mack Road, northernmost extent is McClellan AFB/interchange of I-80 and Business 80/secret Route 51, easternmost extent is Watt Avenue at Route 16)
I've photocopied the map (not sure it is available for borrowing, otherwise I would think about scanning it in color at my place) and will do a thorough examination of its contents probably starting tonight; and later see if I can get Live Local shots of some of the San Diego/Greater Los Angeles/City of San Francisco locations mentioned that have not been covered yet in any form. (For those locations outside those three areas of the state, Googlemaps overheads will do, and some of the stores of course have already been covered on this site, my pages, and Charles Hathaway's.)
One twist is that as a relatively compact basic roadmap, the Safeways were not listed by address at all, but rather simply by the Circle S symbol and an arrow pointing to the general vicinity of the store on the map itself. As a result, once I start posting the list of locations I've gleaned from it, there will be instances I can only approximate where a store might be. Having said that, this will be a boon for finding previously undiscovered sites, especially in rural areas.
The entire state has its own map, of course (split in two because the map's size couldn't handle the entire state being presented lengthwise). Insets are as follows:
San Francisco Bay Area (northernmost extent is Petaluma, easternmost is Antioch and Livermore, southernmost is Monterey and Salinas)
Greater Los Angeles (northernmost extent is Newhall, westernmost extent is Malibu Beach, easternmost extent is Redlands or so - not sure how far the copier at the library covered, and southernmost extent is Capistrano Beach)
Palm Springs area (Beaumont east to Palm Desert)
San Diego (northernmost extent is La Jolla/Route 52, westernmost extent is Point Loma, southernmost extent is the southern Route 75/I-5 interchange, easternmost extent is La Cresta and Jamul)
Sacramento (westernmost extent is the current I-80/US 50 interchange in West Sacramento, southernmost extent is Mack Road, northernmost extent is McClellan AFB/interchange of I-80 and Business 80/secret Route 51, easternmost extent is Watt Avenue at Route 16)
