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- 06 Jan 2009 02:16
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
- Topic: Frys Food AZ: Older interiors
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3772
Re: Frys Food AZ: Older interiors
The interiors of the older Marketplace stores (ex-Smitty's/Fred Meyer) have been redone to match the new-built Fry's Marketplace stores - earthy tones and southwestern design. Fry's has no pre 80s stores in operation, so no such interiors exist. The rest have gone to the Kroger generic designs. I ha...
- 02 Jan 2009 02:29
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Bob's Big Boy former L.A. locations
- Replies: 47
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Re: Bob's Big Boy former L.A. locations
Phoenix had probably one of the only Native American-themed Bob's Big Boys - at the Northeast corner of Central and Thomas (Central Ave was the "cruiser" corridor in the 50s and 60s). It was a low slung stone building with turquoise-colored panels covered with Navajo motifs. Out here Bob's...
- 27 Dec 2008 02:31
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Old JC Penney's ad
- Replies: 44
- Views: 26071
Re: Old JC Penney's ad
Penney was primarily a soft goods chain - and did not have a catalog - until the ealy 60s, when they introduced Penncrest appliances, tv, and auto supplies. This happened around the time of the introduction of the ribbony "Penneys" logo. When they dropped hard goods in the mid 80s, JCP wen...
- 27 Dec 2008 02:05
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Vintage Supermarkets in Movies and TV (Old Ones Only Please)
- Replies: 178
- Views: 161793
Re: Supermarkets in the Movies and TV
Caught a bit of cable channel TLCs LITTLE PEOPLE BIG WORLD show this week. The family went grocery shopping for Christmas dinner in a LIFESTYLED SAFEWAY-owned store. Couldn't tell if a true Safeway...or a Safeway-owned chain...as they all look the same! They live in Oregon, so it probably is a Safe...
- 11 Dec 2008 01:00
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Supermarket jingles
- Replies: 15
- Views: 16124
Re: Supermarket jingles
Until the 80s Safeway used different jingles in each of their divisions...In Phoenix they used "Go for it at Safeway" and "Since we're neighbors let's be friends-Safeway" we also had Alpha Beta with "Tell-A-Friend"....which became "ABCO-a new way to say Alpha Beta&...
- 26 Sep 2008 13:36
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: 1960's Washington DC Safeway Picture
- Replies: 9
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Re: 1960's Washington DC Safeway Picture
I believe Safeway "officially" stopped using the Roman-style lettering, around 1955, when the circle-S and the sans-serif font came into use. It is strange to see both on the same building.
- 24 Jul 2008 01:41
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: old store brands
- Replies: 33
- Views: 41267
Re: old store brands
Another now extinct chain (or will soon be when their final store in Hollywood officially becomes a Gelson's in a couple of weeks) was Mayfair Markets. Their house brand was "mayfresh". Mayfair switched to Springfield in the few years before they went kaput. El Rancho, which was Mayfair's...
- 02 Jun 2008 01:44
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Extinct Supermarket Merchandise
- Replies: 177
- Views: 106804
Re: Extinct Supermarket Merchandise
Remember Burry's cookies? They seemed to be a major brand in the 60s and 70s (Scooter Pies, Gauchos, etc) when they were owned by Quaker. Then for some reason Quaker sold Burry to a French company that didn't know how to market and the Burry brand disappeared from the shelves - yet some of the cooki...
- 28 Apr 2008 02:43
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Old Dairy Queen signs
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8203
Old Dairy Queen signs
I've notice on my travels that there a number of Dairy Queens that still sport the older block letter signage (before the adoption of the red "kiss" logo in the mid-60s). Examples are a store in Williams AZ using a blue circle with white DAIRY QUEEN and a big ol' cone sticking out of the s...
- 26 Mar 2008 03:16
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Extinct Supermarket Merchandise
- Replies: 177
- Views: 106804
Re: Extinct Supermarket Merchandise
Hamm's was bought out by Olympia, who itself was bought by Pabst. Pabst then sold the brand along with several breweries to Miller, who now sells Hamm's in only a handful of cities.
- 07 Mar 2008 02:46
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Historical Department Store Mergers
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5835
Re: BUFFUMS--Southern California
But remember that merger mania is nothing new.
Broadway in Southern CA absorbed B.H. Dyas (Hollywood), Coulter's (LA - Wilshire), Marston's (San Diego area), and Milliron's (LA - Westchester) before 1970.
And also Korrick's in Phoenix (mid 1960s)
Broadway in Southern CA absorbed B.H. Dyas (Hollywood), Coulter's (LA - Wilshire), Marston's (San Diego area), and Milliron's (LA - Westchester) before 1970.
And also Korrick's in Phoenix (mid 1960s)
- 03 Mar 2008 01:28
- Forum: History: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: Toy Chains
- Replies: 18
- Views: 26436
Re: Toy Chains
In the Southwest (AZ-NM-TX) we had Toys By Roy, which were rather large toy and hobby stores mostly in malls -the had good sized hobby depts. I believe KB bought them out in the 80s.
- 02 Mar 2008 03:06
- Forum: History: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: 1960s Phillips 66 stations
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7667
Re: 1960s Phillips 66 stations
Most of the Phillips 66 stations in California were originally Flying A stations, Phillips bought the West Coast operations of Tidewater-Associated Oil (Flying A) in 1966. Many of the Flying A's included angular design that was similar to Phillips.
- 25 Feb 2008 02:26
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Extinct Supermarket Merchandise
- Replies: 177
- Views: 106804
Re:
Yes--all the generics worked this way. "Scotch Buy" was around (on a small number of items" into the 90s, along side all the usual safeway brands. They seemed to phase it out around the time they brought in "Safeway Select". The generics were okay for canned goods and other...
- 14 Feb 2008 00:53
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
- Topic: Phoenix Area Gemco stores
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8778
Re: Phoenix Area Gemco stores
The 19th @ Glendale Gemco was torn down and replaced by a Smitty's (they used a lot of Spanish tile on their stores) Smitty's became Fred Meyer Mktplace, then Fry's Mktplace