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Growing up in Los Alamos NM, TG&Y (My dad got us to start calling it "Toy Guns and Yoyos") was pretty much the only variety store in town. There was a locally owned department store named Clement and Benner (later CB Fox) which is still around, and a clothing store known as Anthony's w...

Back when I lived in New Mexico, there was a Lionel Playworld store in Albuquerque that we went to on occasion in the mid-to-late Eighties to early Nineties (I remember my parents buying NES games there, and I remember seeing sales brochures for the new NeoGeo system when it cost $600 to buy the sys...

By any chance, would these products be related to the Jerseymaid milk that is sold at Target stores?? Vons phased out the Jerseymaid name in favor of Lucerne about 5-6 years ago but Safeway has been using their Lucerne Foods division to reuse some of its historic brands to sell to third parties. Fo...

Vons' dairy brands were Jerseymaid (jointly owned with Market Basket) and Westwood, which is now the value-price milk brand. They had a premium line in the 90's called Pavilions Select which was the exact same thing as Safeway Select and you had to look closely at the logo to see that one word was ...

This is something that started as a discussion over on the Northwest board, but in order to avoid too much digression on that topic, I'm moving this one to here. For a number of months now, I have been working on a project to profile all of the malls found in the Seattle area, and try to find out so...

When I was driving from Salt Lake City to Flagstaff last year, I came across a drugstore In the small town of Panguitch Utah along US 89 that isn't really a Rexall anymore, but was one for many years , and still has a fairly large Rexall sign in front of the building. It was a rather interesting pla...

Virtually all of the Godfathers locations I know of around here are gone now (I think there might still be a few operating in the southern Puget Sound area,) although most of the ones I know of were in strip malls.

I lived the first sixteen years of my life in New Mexico, and I have (somewhat vague) memories of shopping with my Mom at the Grand Central store in Santa Fe. I believe it closed sometime in either 1984 or 85, and sat vacant for a while before a Wal-Mart moved in. They stuck around for about 7-8 yea...

Up here in the Seattle area, most of the former Mervyn's stores I know of remain vacant for the time being after they closed at the end of 2006. Here are the ones I know of for sure: Southcenter mall (Tukwila): Vacant Factora Mall (Bellevue): Vacant, will most likely be demolished soon as part of a ...

Wikipedia seems to indicate that the White Front stores in the Seattle area were rather short-lived (opened in 1969, closed by 1972,) and the Valu-mart/Leslie's stores were converted to Fred Meyers just a few years later. Interestingly enough, it turns out that the former Bon Marche/Current Macy's s...

Wait, so the Overlake Fred Meyer didn't originally open as a Fred Meyer? If that's the case, then the store has probably been around for far longer than I would have thought. I've seen ads for a Valu-Mart in Bellevue in early 60s newspapers, and need to go back and determine if the store in question...

So the conversion of this store to a Fred Meyer from a Marketime predated the opening of the Overlake store then? About the only thing I have really found on that subject is some 1976-1977 newspaper ads in the Bellevue American that list both an Overlake and a Crossroads location and at some point I...

In Bellevue Washington, there's a former Marina Safeway (plus a couple of additional smaller store spaces next to it) that got turned into a Toyota dealership. In that case, A portion of the shopping center (A mid-to-late 60s development, which still has an old style Dairy Queen and a diner type re...

In Bellevue Washington, there's a former Marina Safeway (plus a couple of additional smaller store spaces next to it) that got turned into a Toyota dealership. In that case, A portion of the shopping center (A mid-to-late 60s development, which still has an old style Dairy Queen and a diner type res...

For some time now, I have been working on a long-term project to profile a number of the local malls in the Seattle area, and currently among other things I am working on the Crossroads shopping center in Bellevue. Recently, some digging in newspapers shows that when this particular mall first opene...