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by timbabcock
19 Mar 2007 00:18
Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
Topic: What ever happened to Shakeys Pizza?
Replies: 26
Views: 30153

Shakey's Pizza

I knew the owner of the Seattle Franchise. He used to be one of my paper route cusomters in Des Moines, Washington when I was in junior high. I know he got into car restoration in a big way and has a shop up on highway 99 in Midway. I only know of two Shakey's left in the Seattle market (if there st...
by timbabcock
19 Mar 2007 00:11
Forum: History: USA Northwest/Rockies/Alaska
Topic: Smith's in Riverton, Wyoming and Columbia Falls, Montana
Replies: 3
Views: 5428

Fred Meyer in Montana

I thought they used to list Fred Meyers in Great Falls and Missoula too in their ads.
by timbabcock
18 Mar 2007 22:38
Forum: History: USA California
Topic: Prairie Market
Replies: 6
Views: 12425

Prairie Market

Another thing that was missing out of quite a few of the Prairie Market stores was a meat department. Usually the former Tradewell stores had the meat sections but the concrete stores never did. There were no windows on most of the original stores. They were concrete boxes with these industrial type...
by timbabcock
15 Mar 2007 10:22
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: The first store that got me interested in old supermarkets
Replies: 27
Views: 30636

My interests in grocery stores

Up until I was eight years old, our family used to shop at a store called Gov Mart Bazar. It was a chain of stores that started as a membership store (Gov't Mart) like Costco only it was more a like a Fred Meyer type store with a seperate grocery store and variety store connected to each other. They...