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- 23 Sep 2018 15:29
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Dairy Queen Through the Years
- Replies: 15
- Views: 21122
Re: Dairy Queen Through the Years
I need to hit up Dairy Queen again some time ago just about all of them closed, now one just opened up in Colonie.. I went there once. About the only one around (aside from the small spot that was in Crossgates for a time - not sure if that is still there at all, or just Orange Julius) for many yea...
- 17 Sep 2018 19:03
- Forum: History: Canada
- Topic: NEW: Vancouver and Victoria BC
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6025
Re: NEW: Vancouver and Victoria BC
It's also interesting that they tested their Pay'n Takit format in Vancouver as well. I've never completely understood how that format differed from the main Safeway brand, though I know they acquired the name from a chain they bought out, maybe in Arizona. The brand then popped up in random places...
- 03 Sep 2018 11:09
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: Beckley, WV chain grocery/supermarket locations
- Replies: 19
- Views: 19735
Re: Beckley, WV chain grocery/supermarket locations
Another one of Beckley's thoroughfares is named Eisenhower Drive. When I lived in the area, I assumed that it had been renamed in commemoration of Ike after 1969...but it turns out that the street had been named by 1948! And it was a newly-constructed bypass, so it never was called anything else. I...
- 15 Aug 2018 15:50
- Forum: History: USA Northwest/Rockies/Alaska
- Topic: Marina Safeway in Montana - anyone know which town?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 13238
Re: Marina Safeway in Montana - anyone know which town?
Non-grocery: But the K-Mart in Hamilton (still open) also has old looking signage on it, nothing I've ever seen on the East Coast. https://goo.gl/maps/eqZi2b7kaom Looks like their (I'd say) 70's style (with the large red K and smaller blue-green mart). Many stores had a similar setup on their roads...
- 24 Jun 2018 12:24
- Forum: History: USA Midwest/Plains
- Topic: Mystery stores - 2609 E. 7th & 1701 S. Main, Joplin MO
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7713
Re: Mystery stores - 2609 E. 7th & 1701 S. Main, Joplin MO
Perhaps (looking at the info you have posted) the reason for the IGA and Piggly Wiggly both being in the ad is that this new group (Milgram), since they were taking over 6 different stores, some of the stores were running under one name and the rest under the other? It would sound logical with the t...
- 08 Jun 2018 16:03
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: Chain history in Morgantown, WV (or, the case of the missing Kroger)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13340
Re: Chain history in Morgantown, WV (or, the case of the missing Kroger)
* A&P consolidated 5 stores into 1 between 1935 and 1941! Probably quite similar in many locations - as they were converting the small stores into early supermarkets they went from somewhere around 15,000 stores (nationwide) to around 3,500. Most likely the only reason it's not more exact (5 in...
- 08 Mar 2018 16:18
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: W T Grant
- Replies: 67
- Views: 85074
Re: W T Grant
the old W.T. Grant that later became a KMart in Rotterdam NY Curry Road Plaza finally got demolished in favor of a nice apartment complex cool to know that Schenectady housed so many Department stores in its day.. I keep on hearing about Two Guys, Kresge's, Sears, Carl Company, Woolworth, Barney's ...
- 12 Nov 2017 17:09
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: A&P "Centennial" Stores Still Housing Supermar
- Replies: 48
- Views: 57422
Re: A&P "Centennial" Stores Still Housing Supermar
Let me give you some New Orleans terms: Zatarain's - spices, dinners and the like Hubig's - Pies Zapp's - potato chips Blue Plate - Mayonaise Zatarain's may have started as local to that area, but I've seen those in stores here in NY State so they have apparently spread out quite a bit. Actually th...
- 16 Oct 2017 09:00
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: UPC codes & grocery scanning
- Replies: 100
- Views: 96439
Re: UPC codes & grocery scanning
Before there were UPC codes and scanners there was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJCj87WxIec Hard to believe now on so many different levels. One thing they need to bring back is that lesson about packing the items - so much of the issue with plastic bags is that you wind up with far more o...
- 28 Aug 2017 11:04
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Rotating Kmart road signs
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8211
Re: Rotating Kmart road signs
Can't say I ever saw one that turned like that, but one would suspect it wouldn't take too much to fix it so it couldn't do that (say if the rules in a given area changed and no longer allowed it). So it's very possible that many of that style did at one point move and then were converted/fixed (or ...
- 20 Jul 2017 08:23
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Kmart 2000 closures
- Replies: 22
- Views: 24144
Re: Kmart 2000 closures
If memory serves, that Saratoga location was actually a replacement store for one located in a shopping plaza on the other end of the city. I believe the original site was the plaza on Route 50 (after it splits from Route 9 heading south and is called Ballston Avenue) that now houses a Price Choppe...
- 28 Jun 2017 15:33
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Kmart 2000 closures
- Replies: 22
- Views: 24144
Re: Kmart 2000 closures
this is around the time that the store in Glenville NY closed which ironically became a Target just like the Amsterdam Location then there is also the Latham store which still stands to this day Although Latham was much more recent (and at the same time as East Greenbush and Clifton Park - all of w...
- 01 Jun 2017 20:48
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: 10748 Buckley Hall Rd, Mathews, VA
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9808
Re: 10748 Buckley Hall Rd, Mathews, VA
Any hint as to what they sell (in terms of a "store brand"), if any? If they are supplied by one of the larger groups (like IGA, SuperValu or similar) perhaps it's a décor they had available for stores that dealt with them to get for the store, either at the time it opened or became this s...
- 13 May 2017 13:11
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Reset conversions vs. Rebrand conversions
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7906
Re: Reset conversions vs. Rebrand conversions
One odd exception to the Albertsons "resets" would be the former A&P in Boonton, NJ that is now an Acme. Unlike the rest of the A&P brands/Acme stores, this store was originally going to close, and was just a day or two from finishing it's going out of business sales when Acme deci...
- 31 Mar 2017 13:20
- Forum: History: USA Northeast
- Topic: A&P at 3 Ave/32 St, New York?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7604
Re: A&P at 3 Ave/32 St, New York?
Just because I love being right... I just happened to see what I realized was the SAME A&P on an episode of "Naked City" from 1960. I identified it by the women's clothing store a couple of doors down. This time I saw enough of the sign that I could look that clothing store up in an o...