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- 12 Apr 2007 16:06
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Bazar
- Replies: 13
- Views: 13526
Bazar Foods
One thing that Bazar Foods did that you don't see anymore is something called parcel pickup. I know the original stores did this but it was later discontinued. Your groceries were loaded into a grey plastic bin. Each bin held two bags of groceries. You were given a plastic tag which had the same num...
- 12 Apr 2007 15:53
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Bazar
- Replies: 13
- Views: 13526
Earlier this year, a biography was published about Diamond, who is now 99 years old. Joe Diamond: Times in the Life of a Seattle Icon would probably have more info about Gov-Mart in it... Joe Diamond passed away a few months ago. It was interesting that no one mentioned anything about him starting ...
- 12 Apr 2007 15:44
- Forum: History: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: A new arch-roof prototype...from a bookstore!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6208
- 12 Apr 2007 15:42
- Forum: History: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: A new arch-roof prototype...from a bookstore!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6208
- 12 Apr 2007 15:29
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Valu Mart in the Seattle, Tacoma, Everett area
- Replies: 9
- Views: 15769
A interesting fact about the former White Front/Valu-Mart/Leslies in Burien is that for many years after becoming Fred Meyer, it served as the Northern Region Offices for Fred Meyer After it left the Burien location it was moved to the Midway Store Fomerly Valu-Mart/Leslies. Once the store was torn...
- 04 Apr 2007 19:15
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Valu Mart in the Seattle, Tacoma, Everett area
- Replies: 9
- Views: 15769
Valu Mart
One thing that is interesting is even though Valu Mart/Leslies hasn't been around for over thirty years they have owned most of the properties of their former locations until within the last few years. It was becomming a problem for Fred Meyer because they wanted to demolish the former stores and bu...
- 21 Mar 2007 20:40
- Forum: History: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: 76 gas station balls are going away
- Replies: 19
- Views: 17194
ConocoPhillips is removing the iconic 76 balls from their gas stations, replacing them with boring flat signs. There was an article on this in The Seattle Times not too long ago. It should be on the Save the Ball website as well. Conco-Phillips feels that the orange color doesn't fit into the color...
- 21 Mar 2007 10:04
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Valu Mart in the Seattle, Tacoma, Everett area
- Replies: 9
- Views: 15769
Valu Mart in the Seattle, Tacoma, Everett area
I know this name gets used quite a bit for grocery stores in different parts of the country but this one covers the Seattle based discount store chain that carried groceries and variety goods from the 50s, 60s and 70s. They started as a membership store like Gov't Mart did and eliminated that requir...
- 21 Mar 2007 00:28
- Forum: History: USA Northwest/Rockies/Alaska
- Topic: Northwest Safeways
- Replies: 67
- Views: 62098
Safeway on NE 4th in Bellevue
It was just announced about a month ago that Bellevue Square owner Kemper Freeman is planning on tearing down the Safeway and Bartell Drugs and will use the site for another addition to Lincoln Square. Most of it will be a parking garage to replace the structure in front of JC Penneys that will be t...
- 20 Mar 2007 20:06
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Albertsons Logos Through The Years
- Replies: 24
- Views: 16611
- 20 Mar 2007 19:49
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: White Front Stores
- Replies: 53
- Views: 78342
- 20 Mar 2007 19:42
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Thrifty Drug in the Northwest
- Replies: 48
- Views: 60451
Gov Mart, House of Values, and Payless
In 1973 Payless came into the area by acquiring both Gov Mart and House of Values at the same time. Payless was a division of K-Mart at the time. Bazzar Foods reamained until the late 1970s. The Gov Mart in Tacoma remained for a few more years until it was acquired by Fred Meyer. Then it became Cost...
- 19 Mar 2007 01:05
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: White Front Stores
- Replies: 53
- Views: 78342
White Fronts in the Seattle market
We had White Fronts up here as well. The Burien Washington store I think my Dad helped in the construction of that one. I remember going there when it was opened but I don't remember much about the inside of it. That archway was pretty impressive though. After they shut the company down Valu Mart (a...
- 19 Mar 2007 00:38
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Thrifty Drug in the Northwest
- Replies: 48
- Views: 60451
Thrifty/Payless in Federal Way
For awhile in the 1980s and 1990s it seemed like all the drugstores in Federal Way (except for Drug Emporium/Longs Drugs) were under the same company. There was a time when Thrifty, Pay and Save, and Payless were under the same umbrella there were four stores in shopping centers next to each other. ...
- 19 Mar 2007 00:28
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Thrifty Drug in the Northwest
- Replies: 48
- Views: 60451
Thrifty Drugs
Giant T was Thrify Drugs. The name was used in Washington State up unitl 1984 just before they took over Pay & Save they dropped the Giant T name and switched them to Thrifty. The reason why they didn't use the name was because Thrifty Drugs was being used by another drugstore chain (when Rexall...