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- 23 Feb 2011 18:33
- Forum: History: USA Northwest/Rockies/Alaska
- Topic: Safeway: Bothell, WA
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4276
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...
- 21 Feb 2011 05:13
- Forum: History: USA Northwest/Rockies/Alaska
- Topic: Safeway: Bothell, WA
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4276
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.
- 07 Feb 2011 23:08
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Vintage Pizza Hut "Brown Roof"
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10054
Re: Vintage Pizza Hut "Brown Roof"
Not that I know of. It's a fairly common German surname, from what I understand.Ephrata1966 wrote:Not really on topic, but are you related to Bob Lutz from GM by any chance?
- 07 Feb 2011 21:54
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Vintage Pizza Hut "Brown Roof"
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10054
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...
- 04 Feb 2011 05:12
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Vintage Supermarket Music
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13318
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.
- 04 Jan 2011 05:18
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Former IHOP locations
- Replies: 33
- Views: 38317
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...
- 24 Dec 2010 03:01
- Forum: History: Shopping Centers
- Topic: SeaTac Mall/Commons at Federal Way
- Replies: 7
- Views: 13876
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...
- 04 Nov 2010 03:10
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Baskin Robbins signs
- Replies: 10
- Views: 16150
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.)
- 28 Oct 2010 02:40
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Baskin Robbins signs
- Replies: 10
- Views: 16150
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...
- 13 Oct 2010 15:17
- Forum: History: USA Northwest/Rockies/Alaska
- Topic: Old Fred Meyer Stores w/ Separate HI&GCs
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13745
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...
- 06 Oct 2010 15:53
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Historic Department Stores Blog
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3128
Re: Historic Department Stores Blog
Is this the same person that does the Mall Hall of Fame Blog? The style seems to be similar.
- 26 Sep 2010 19:13
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: National Association of Food Chains-1957-Jim Dandy, etc.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4033
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 ...
- 22 Sep 2010 22:18
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Grocers in "real" malls - not strip malls
- Replies: 79
- Views: 81925
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...
- 07 Sep 2010 15:10
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: 7-Eleven Stores with Full-Length Storefronts
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5962
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.
- 31 Aug 2010 02:27
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Baskin Robbins signs
- Replies: 10
- Views: 16150
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...