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by Brian Lutz
23 Feb 2011 18:33
Forum: History: USA Northwest/Rockies/Alaska
Topic: Safeway: Bothell, WA
Replies: 6
Views: 4171

Re: Safeway: Bothell, WA

The Bellevue store is still standing, but vacant aside from some seasonal uses of the Bartell Drugs space. The store's parking lot was also the site of a (notoriously short) Miley Cyrus concert back in November that was part of the Microsoft Store grand opening in Bellevue Square. Eventually the pla...
by Brian Lutz
21 Feb 2011 05:13
Forum: History: USA Northwest/Rockies/Alaska
Topic: Safeway: Bothell, WA
Replies: 6
Views: 4171

Re: Safeway: Bothell, WA

If I recall, there have been plans for a replacement store for this one nearby for some time now, but it's never materialized. Even compared to other Marinas, this one seems like a rather small store.
by Brian Lutz
07 Feb 2011 23:08
Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
Topic: Vintage Pizza Hut "Brown Roof"
Replies: 14
Views: 9947

Re: Vintage Pizza Hut "Brown Roof"

Ephrata1966 wrote:Not really on topic, but are you related to Bob Lutz from GM by any chance?
Not that I know of. It's a fairly common German surname, from what I understand.
by Brian Lutz
07 Feb 2011 21:54
Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
Topic: Vintage Pizza Hut "Brown Roof"
Replies: 14
Views: 9947

Re: Vintage Pizza Hut "Brown Roof"

Here is the most recent new-build full service Pizza Hut I know of around here, which seems to be of roughly late 90s vintage. Anything newer than this around here is take-out/delivery only in a strip mall. And on the side note, there is at least one Denny's around here that still has a cocktail lo...
by Brian Lutz
04 Feb 2011 05:12
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Vintage Supermarket Music
Replies: 6
Views: 13132

Re: Vintage Supermarket Music

Here is a site with MP3s from an old record of background music specifically intended for use in S.S Kresge stores in the early 60s, and sure enough, the stuff hits every bouncy string cliche in the book.
by Brian Lutz
04 Jan 2011 05:18
Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
Topic: Former IHOP locations
Replies: 33
Views: 31591

Re: Former IHOP locations

Since I posted previously on this thread, the former IHOP in Downtown Bellevue has been turned into one of the several cupcake places that has popped up around here lately. Interestingly, the sign for the new place borrows some design cues from the classic IHOP sign, which would seem to indicate tha...
by Brian Lutz
24 Dec 2010 03:01
Forum: History: Shopping Centers
Topic: SeaTac Mall/Commons at Federal Way
Replies: 7
Views: 11037

Re: SeaTac Mall/Commons at Federal Way

When did Lamonts become Gottschalks? I do not remember seeing a Lamonts sign with that style of L before. Those overhead "faux-Indian" lights are now gone. But there are many places in the ceilings shaped like that still. I believe that at least some (possibly all) of the Lamonts stores w...
by Brian Lutz
04 Nov 2010 03:10
Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
Topic: Baskin Robbins signs
Replies: 10
Views: 12569

Re: Baskin Robbins signs

I'm thinking that the logo was introduced in the late Eighties, although it probably took some time to make the switch over (they don't seem to hurry much with sign changes, as you can see here.)
by Brian Lutz
28 Oct 2010 02:40
Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
Topic: Baskin Robbins signs
Replies: 10
Views: 12569

Re: Baskin Robbins signs

And here's a particularly odd example of one of the local shops in the area: The sign on the front of the store has been replaced with the current logo, but the older sign (one of the aforementioned examples of the newer translites being put into the older sign frames) on the other side of the store...
by Brian Lutz
13 Oct 2010 15:17
Forum: History: USA Northwest/Rockies/Alaska
Topic: Old Fred Meyer Stores w/ Separate HI&GCs
Replies: 10
Views: 12426

Re: Old Fred Meyer Stores w/ Separate HI&GCs

As recently as the early part of last decade I can recall the Issaquah Fred Meyer store having a lumber department and an expanded hardware department compared to the usual Fred Meyer stores for at least the first couple of years in business (and this was one that was right next door to a Home Depot...
by Brian Lutz
06 Oct 2010 15:53
Forum: History: Department Store Chains
Topic: Historic Department Stores Blog
Replies: 2
Views: 3082

Re: Historic Department Stores Blog

Is this the same person that does the Mall Hall of Fame Blog? The style seems to be similar.
by Brian Lutz
26 Sep 2010 19:13
Forum: History: USA California
Topic: National Association of Food Chains-1957-Jim Dandy, etc.
Replies: 3
Views: 3959

Re: National Association of Food Chains-1957-Jim Dandy, etc.

I have definitely seen newspaper ads for Tradewell stores in some of my research, but without going back and looking I don't know if I could pin down a date range on these. I'll have to go back at some point and see if I can figure this out. I also seem to recall that these stores may have included ...
by Brian Lutz
22 Sep 2010 22:18
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Grocers in "real" malls - not strip malls
Replies: 79
Views: 71744

Re: Grocers in "real" malls - not strip malls

Interestingly enough, Southcenter Mall in Tukwila WA (which once had a Lucky store during their relatively brief run in the Seattle metro area) now has a grocery store again. A new Seafood City (Filipino grocery) store recently opened up in the space once occupied by the mall's Mervyn's store that h...
by Brian Lutz
07 Sep 2010 15:10
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: 7-Eleven Stores with Full-Length Storefronts
Replies: 5
Views: 5744

Re: 7-Eleven Stores with Full-Length Storefronts

Frequently you'll be able to see remnants of the former storefront for the 3-panel sign behind the full-length storefront, which doesn't always cover everything. The most obvious sign you might find is the bias-cut wooden strips, which might still be visible.
by Brian Lutz
31 Aug 2010 02:27
Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
Topic: Baskin Robbins signs
Replies: 10
Views: 12569

Baskin Robbins signs

It occurs to me as I see some of the Baskin Robbins locations around here that a lot of these have been there for a very long time. Sometime around the mid Eighties or so, BR changed their logo from the old "Ragtime" logo to the more contemporary (for the time anyway) version that seems to...