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- 13 May 2024 14:44
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Mistakes Which Led to A&P's Demise
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2160
Re: Mistakes Which Led to A&P's Demise
This (661 Scotland Rd, Orange NJ) was an operational A&P store at least as late as 1973. I think that just about says it all... Screenshot 2024-05-01 at 8.37.20 PM.jpg Not exactly sure when one in this area closed, but it was only slightly larger. However, that location operated for a fair time...
- 29 Apr 2024 17:31
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Mistakes Which Led to A&P's Demise
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2160
Re: Mistakes Which Led to A&P's Demise
A&P was largely a victim of its own arrogance over the years. They believed firmly in brands you couldn't get elsewhere - Jane Parker and Eight O'Clock Coffee, to name two. They believed firmly the stores they built were fine for the average shopper, who was at the time the American Housewife. T...
- 08 Apr 2024 14:54
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Sears store-within-a-stores over the years
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13184
Re: Sears store-within-a-stores over the years
The store was subdivided.
- 02 Apr 2024 15:53
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Sears store-within-a-stores over the years
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13184
Re: Sears store-within-a-stores over the years
So Macy's wasn't the first with Toys R Us... Montgomery Ward had a full sized Toys "R" Us in their Gaithersburg MD location https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1986/07/22/wards-toys-r-us-set-venture/c81f5478-5c29-4ce7-ad70-bc690de2ba2f/ Sears' K-B Toys experiment sounds more s...
- 29 Feb 2024 18:19
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Kroger Family Centers
- Replies: 126
- Views: 124233
Re: Kroger Family Centers
Kroger appears to have also tried out the Family Center format with their Henke & Pilot stores: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1585986/ Better quality image: https://www.newspapers.com/article/lake-charles-american-press/109375350/ Correct. Several of the originals were indeed Henke's Fami...
- 19 Jan 2024 13:11
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: What happened to drugstore lunch counters?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9718
Re: What happened to drugstore lunch counters?
As I understand it, some of these drugstores did not have actual pharmacies, and the lunch counters were replaced by pharmacies. (There are some CVS stores that don't have pharmacies, though mostly in tourist locations). Walgreens does this too; I went to a store in Orlando near Disney last summer ...
- 16 Jan 2024 15:44
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: "End of the line" supermarkets
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10263
Re: "End of the line" supermarkets
You're also missing Eisner Foods, who was at the time of their demise a division of Jewel; Skaggs Alpha Beta and Alpha Beta. S-A-B in Texas and Florida became Jewel for a time in the 90s before being sold off to Albertsons.
- 12 Jan 2024 12:26
- Forum: History: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: Old ServiStar Hardware signs still up?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5394
Re: Old ServiStar Hardware signs still up?
ServiStar also tried to start their own corporate stores, building two in Longview, TX in 1984. Both were nice hardware stores, but were started at the time (especially in Longview) that large scale building supply warehouses started coming to town. They were gone by 1996, but both buildings are sti...
- 12 Jan 2024 12:11
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Kroger Family Centers
- Replies: 126
- Views: 124233
Re: Kroger Family Centers
Greenville is not recognizable at all: https://maps.app.goo.gl/7AxozTRfRckqfNyq7 The Fayetteville store is not recognizable from the road, and Historic Aerials only goes back to 1980. But it is located at 3340 N College, roughly what would have been between Fayetteville and Springdale at the time: h...
- 04 Jan 2024 11:56
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Kroger Family Centers
- Replies: 126
- Views: 124233
Re: Kroger Family Centers
I think I found the missing link in Arkansas - there appears to only have been one. Fort Smith, 4000 N O St.: https://maps.app.goo.gl/LjyUQF5M16YhSRfL7 Currently Troung Son Supermarket and a few local stores. Heavily remodeled, and of brick construction, not the aggregate tilt wall most of the other...
- 03 Jan 2024 11:19
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: New Orleans area updates
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3608
Re: New Orleans area updates
I know most of the directories may list Schwegmann stores in 2000, but I'm fairly sure they all closed in 1999. A good number of the stores were purchased by Robert Fresh Market and A&P (to become Sav-A-Centers), but this would have happened before that point.
- 01 Dec 2023 10:45
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: NEW: Gulfport and Biloxi, 1925-2020
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3875
Re: NEW: Gulfport and Biloxi, 1925-2020
Both Gulfport and Biloxi are tough because of their location and its predication to hurricanes. Camille in 1969 and Katrina in 2005 really reshaped the first few blocks of both cities, almost up to the railroad about 6-10 blocks north. There are photos from 1969 of a nearly brand new Centennial A&am...
- 13 Oct 2023 18:21
- Forum: History: USA Midwest/Plains
- Topic: NEW: Aurora IL, 1924-2020
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3778
Re: NEW: Aurora IL, 1924-2020
With as many of these as you've been cranking out lately, I'd say we need to find you a hobby. :)
- 05 Oct 2023 17:57
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: NEW: Shreveport, 1925-2020
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5220
Re: NEW: Shreveport, 1925-2020
Here's a clipping showing the Safeway turned Brookshire's after its final Safeway remodel and expansion in 1981. Link This look was fairly typical of Dallas Safeway stores from 1979-1983; similar stores were built in Longview (x2), Henderson (now Kroger) and elsewhere in the region. Henderson still ...
- 05 Oct 2023 10:48
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: NEW: Shreveport, 1925-2020
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5220
Re: NEW: Shreveport, 1925-2020
Here's a bit of trivia about Shreveport: It's the city where the founders of Id Software started their career at locally-based Softdisk, and where the first Commander Keen game was written on evenings and weekends. So where were Tom Hall, John Romero, and company buying their groceries in 1990? Acc...