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- 18 Jan 2007 16:41
- Forum: History: Shopping Centers
- Topic: Rockville Mall (MD) / Downtown Malls
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15567
I would like to know more about the downtown malls in Rock Hill and Painesville. When did they open? Did they have anchor stores? Are they still standing? Heck, what were the malls' NAMES? As I said about five posts up, Rock Hill was torn down several years ago. Again, it was not so a much a mall b...
- 16 Jan 2007 21:43
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Safeway Store Brands
- Replies: 37
- Views: 27641
Could be that Safeway was also acting as supplier to other chains. I vaguely remember reading somewhere that A&P did some of that with its house brands on a limited basis.terryinokc wrote:Don't know if Safeway bought the companies/manufacturers, or if they were somehow related to Safeway all along.
- 16 Jan 2007 01:07
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Spencer's in Morro Bay, California--CORONET?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5654
- 15 Jan 2007 23:14
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Food Basket Locations
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7426
I have moved these posts and started a new thread since the developing discussion was (a) not about the New York Food Basket chain, which was the original topic, and (b) was starting to be about specific locations rather than general information on the chain. I promise to be everyone's best friend i...
- 15 Jan 2007 23:04
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Spencer's in Morro Bay, California--CORONET?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5654
Re: Spencer's in Morro Bay, California--CORONET?
Maybe, but it seems a good bit bigger than the average Coronet store.Dean wrote: From the pix that was posted today on the main page...POSSIBLY a CORONET dime store
- 15 Jan 2007 11:09
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Alpha Beta spin-offs
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5375
- 15 Jan 2007 00:32
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Alpha Beta spin-offs
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5375
Answers to your questions: http://www.groceteria.com/alphabeta/index.html -- FAD was Alpha Beta's discount format. The name was used for a limited time. -- The Skaggs Alpha Beta brand was the result of the merger of American Stores with Skaggs Drugstores. -- Yucaipa, which already owned Food4Less in...
- 13 Jan 2007 22:12
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Does anyone remember Market Basket Stores in Southern Calif?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 22215
I've spilt the specific locations discussions into a new thread in the proper forum:
http://www.groceteria.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=1004
Please use that one for discussion of specific locations and this one for general history of the chain.
Thanks,
David
http://www.groceteria.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=1004
Please use that one for discussion of specific locations and this one for general history of the chain.
Thanks,
David
- 12 Jan 2007 11:00
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Grocery Stores that were formerly something unique
- Replies: 16
- Views: 15888
Of particular interest: -- Harris-Teeter in downtown Charleston SC, housed in an old railroad warehouse or freight depot. -- Harris-Teeter at Cameron Village in Raleigh, in an old Sears store. -- Cala on Geary Boulevard in San Francisco, in a former car dealership. -- A location on South Boulevard i...
- 12 Jan 2007 10:39
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Thriftimart in So Cal
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10368
I've split this thread to create a new one on specific Thriftimart locations. Please post location-specific info there now and reserve this one for general history on the chain:
http://www.groceteria.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=991
Thanks,
David
http://www.groceteria.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=991
Thanks,
David
- 08 Jan 2007 20:28
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: San Francisco: 7th Ave marina Safeway closes
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4323
- 08 Jan 2007 20:00
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: San Francisco: 7th Ave marina Safeway closes
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4323
Photo of that store (with a big ugly guy in front of it) here:
http://www.groceteria.com/about/graphic ... wynn02.jpg
http://www.groceteria.com/about/graphic ... wynn02.jpg
- 08 Jan 2007 11:17
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Bob's Big Boy former L.A. locations
- Replies: 47
- Views: 50154
- 05 Jan 2007 10:52
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: 1967 vintage Gemco (now Target) to close Jan 6
- Replies: 31
- Views: 24760
- 04 Jan 2007 21:39
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Sacramento: Retro McDonalds - original or newer?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 18984