Groceteria.com

Posted: **15 Dec 2006 04:06**

After a recent trip through Sacramento, I've decided to increase the scope of my site - not just covering the SF Peninsula, but now NorCal as a whole, in bits and pieces. With that, here's a few photos I thought I'd post here out of the 96 (!!) retail-related shots I took this Thursday.

- Automatic door floor mat, 2509 Fulton Avenue, Arden-Arcade. Marina former Safeway, now Tognotti's Auto World.

- Unsure what this building's past is, at 19th and T in midtown Sacramento:

- 99 Cents Only and Rite Aid signs utilizing former Alpha-Beta and Thrifty ovals, El Camino Avenue at Howe on the west edge of Arden-Arcade:

Posted: **15 Dec 2006 14:53**

10-4 on the post below!

Posted: **15 Dec 2006 15:02**

Paper or Plastic wrote:post them all Hombre' !!

I think it'd be much easier to just link to my Sacramento-area pages:

Sacramento
West Sacramento
Arden-Arcade
Rosemont/Cordova Area

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1/3/07: I've added some beautiful night shots of the Tognotti's marina in Arden-Arcade section, as well as some exterior and interior shots of Lee's Food King in the Sacramento section.

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1/9/07: Found the text of when Groceteria got mentioned in the Bee, in a Walt Wiley column from July 2004:

Old grocery stores never die, they just come in for remarketing
July 22, 2004
Author: Walt Wiley

'Did you bring bottles?': David Gwynn remembers when the checker at the market asked that question before starting to ring up groceries. It's such a fond memory that he has a Web site under that headline devoted to old grocery stores.

That was in the days when beer and soda bottles were refilled, and the companies wanted them back to refill, even charged a deposit so the customers would bring them back.

David remembers going with his mother to the old A&P store in Greensboro, N.C., where he grew up. "It was always cool and dark and mysterious," he said. "My mother didn't like it, but I found it fascinating."

Now he's scouring historical records to find the sites of the old markets, then visiting to see what's there today, posting his findings on his Web site, http://www.groceteria.com.

In Carmichael, there was an old Safeway at 4040 Manzanita Ave., built in 1965. Today there's a modern, 24-hour Safeway there.

On Watt Avenue since 1960, there was a Raley's at 3431, between Marconi and Whitney avenues. Today, it's a Grocery Outlet.

Then there is the big, showy '60s-era Safeway at 2509 Fulton Ave., now Tognotti's auto parts emporium.

"These things are always changing," David said. "That's what's fascinating about tracing the history." ...

Also found someone mentioned this place and its Sac section on another board:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthr ... ?p=2543312