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by terryinokc
09 Mar 2009 12:02
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Extinct Supermarket Merchandise
Replies: 177
Views: 94672

Re: Extinct Supermarket Merchandise

Thanks, Dean.....I thought about that at 3:00 this morning......
by terryinokc
08 Mar 2009 22:31
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Extinct Supermarket Merchandise
Replies: 177
Views: 94672

Re: Extinct Supermarket Merchandise

Alpha Beta/Skaggs Alpha Beta carried a generic line called "EconoWise"...the label was white with red and black lettering. I remember canned goods, black pepper, and paper products were available....probably more items too. How about wholesalers "controlled labels"....Allied supp...
by terryinokc
22 Feb 2009 21:17
Forum: History: Department Store Chains
Topic: History of: Kmart, City of Industry CA
Replies: 12
Views: 7924

Re: History of: Kmart, City of Industry CA

K Mart stores in the southern part of the country had major appliance departments in the 60's and 70's.....my aunt and uncle bought a washer and dryer at one in Augusta Georgia sometime in 1968 or 1969.
by terryinokc
03 Dec 2008 16:28
Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
Topic: Albuquerque, NM former pylon safeway
Replies: 4
Views: 9998

Re: Albuquerque, NM former pylon safeway

I was in this store last year.....very ghetto like. But I did get several interior photos and exterior photos....all the Safeway wall graphics are there as well as the original aisle markers. I'll see if I can get these photos to David in the next week or two. It was pretty trashy inside and out.......
by terryinokc
27 Oct 2008 21:12
Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
Topic: Old Safeway in downtown Tulsa
Replies: 7
Views: 5613

Re: Old Safeway in downtown Tulsa

This building is still standing, and empty. It operated as a marina Safeway until the Oklahoma division of Safeway was sold....I believe in 1984 or 1985. It was operated as Homeland until the store permanently closed a couple of years ago. The exterior was basically untouched from the Safeway times....
by terryinokc
29 Jul 2008 15:14
Forum: History: USA Midwest/Plains
Topic: Rapp's Chain-1959 Moscow World's Fair-St. Louis Area?
Replies: 4
Views: 5202

Re: Rapp's Chain-1959 Moscow World's Fair-St. Louis Area?

Rich is right....Bettendorf's bought the Rapp's chain in the 1960's. After that, Schnucks bought Bettendorf's, and for a while, the stores were called Schnuck Bettendorf. I believe the name was just dropped to Schnucks sometime in the 1970's.
by terryinokc
20 Feb 2008 18:15
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Jewel T - store design and range of operations
Replies: 5
Views: 9957

Re: Jewel T - store design and range of operations

Jewel T had several stores in Texas also. I know of six or seven in the Dallas metroplex, and also visited one in Paris, TX, a good ways from Dallas. The Texas stores that I visited were all in former grocery stores......and very small. Some of them could have even been in former drug stores.......m...
by terryinokc
16 Nov 2007 17:13
Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
Topic: Gibson's in El Paso
Replies: 2
Views: 5317

Gibsons

The El Paso store was probably part of the others in this part of the country.....Gibson Products Company....the headquarters was in Seagoville, TX. Gibsons were all over the northern part of Texas, into Oklahoma and Kansas, and maybe other states too. They were a smaller sort of discount store. The...
by terryinokc
16 Nov 2007 16:59
Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
Topic: Albuquerque Fair 'N' Square
Replies: 4
Views: 4558

Fair and Square-Albuquerque

Yes, this store is definately an old Safeway. I was in there last summer while on vacation.....I have several interior photos....all the original Safeway lettering is intact on the walls, and also still has the original aisle signs and markers. It's a really dirty, cluttered store, but was relativel...
by terryinokc
01 Mar 2007 13:38
Forum: History: Department Store Chains
Topic: GEX/Oklahoma
Replies: 1
Views: 5782

In Oklahoma City, we had a GEX store.....I always heard that it stood for Government Employees Exchange....it was a membership department store, located not on but very close to Tinker Air Force Base. We never shopped there....think that you had to be either a government employee or relative.....but...
by terryinokc
19 Feb 2007 11:54
Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
Topic: White Cross
Replies: 10
Views: 12705

There were three or four White Cross drug stores around Augusta, Georgia in the late 1960's and early 1970's. One was downtown, and the other two I remember were in shopping centers with Roses. Not sure if they were related to the White Cross stores in NC that David mentioned, but these stores also ...
by terryinokc
14 Feb 2007 13:10
Forum: History: Department Store Chains
Topic: Department Store Gas Stations
Replies: 38
Views: 25654

Montgomery Ward in Oklahoma City had gas at their tire and auto center.....seems like it was called "Riverside" gas, or something like that. Also, JC Penney had at least one store here that sold gasoline.....Penncrest, maybe?
by terryinokc
14 Feb 2007 12:56
Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
Topic: Miscellaneous Drugstore Chain Discussion
Replies: 25
Views: 19766

In Texas there were Skillern's Drug Stores.......I think they were bought by a chain called Ward's Cut Rate Drugs.......Ward's Cut Rate came into Oklahoma City in the 1970's, and then later the stores were sold to Eckerds. Super X was also here for several years in the 1970's---several of them adjac...
by terryinokc
08 Feb 2007 15:52
Forum: History: USA Midwest/Plains
Topic: Wrigley's supermarkets in Michigan
Replies: 15
Views: 37700

Yes, it is correct that Allied owned Humpty Dumpty supermarkets in Oklahoma, and quite possibly, Ideal Food Stores out of Liberal, KS. Humpty had been locally owned by Sylvan Goldman, the guy that invented the modern shopping cart. He sold the stores to Allied in the mid 60's, I believe. Humpty's st...
by terryinokc
07 Feb 2007 15:45
Forum: History: Shopping Centers
Topic: Kmart Plaza Shopping Centers
Replies: 20
Views: 24790

This is a question that I've always kind of wondered about....were K-Mart Plaza shopping centers located all across the country, or primarily in the East and South? All the ones that I remember were in the South and East.....I had seen other shopping centers with K-Mart and a grocery store or other ...