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by tkaye
17 Aug 2009 01:00
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: History of Albertsons (pre ASC and SuperValu)
Replies: 6
Views: 5027

Re: History of Albertsons (pre ASC and SuperValu)

Apparently Albertsons Had A department store called Everybody's in Spokane in 1953 where Northtown Mall now stands here's an ad from the Spokane Chronicle An article on the front page of the Feb. 14, 1952 Chronicle detailed the grand opening. The store was owned by the C.C. Anderson Co., which oper...
by tkaye
16 Aug 2009 22:31
Forum: History: USA Northwest/Rockies/Alaska
Topic: Ellensburg WA Safeway 1965 Open
Replies: 8
Views: 4508

Re: Ellensburg WA Safeway 1965 Open

The store it replaced (which was only built six years before), still stands at 411 N. Ruby St. It is now the Kittitas County Permit Center.
by tkaye
05 Jul 2009 16:12
Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
Topic: Payless Drug signage
Replies: 5
Views: 9173

Re: Payless Drug signage

An earlier version of the PayLess lettering can be seen on a trademark registration that can be found by searching for "PayLess Super Drug Stores" here . It's interesting to note the "Other Data" entry that lists many of the communities where one-off stores called "PayLess&...
by tkaye
03 Jul 2009 17:28
Forum: History: USA Northwest/Rockies/Alaska
Topic: Fred Meyer gas stations signage
Replies: 16
Views: 10240

Re: Fred Meyer gas stations signage

The Bellevue/Overlake Fred Meyer also has a Les Schwab in the front parking lot. Given the fact that this particular store is one of the former White Front/ValuMart locations, it is possible that the TBA store could have even been there before Fred Meyer got there. Looking at the building from Goog...
by tkaye
28 Jun 2009 18:20
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Serving [insert town] since [insert year]?
Replies: 5
Views: 4517

Re: Serving [insert town] since [insert year]?

Given how long Safeway has been around here (Kirkland actually had at least one pre-merger Skaggs United Store in the 1920s that eventually became a Safeway) I'd guess that was based on the specific store, not how long Safeway has has a store in Renton. It seems there isn't a standard for how they ...
by tkaye
28 Jun 2009 17:45
Forum: History: USA Northwest/Rockies/Alaska
Topic: Fred Meyer gas stations signage
Replies: 16
Views: 10240

Re: Fred Meyer gas stations signage

Along I-5 southbound between Seattle and Tacoma, roughly around the Kent-Midway area if memory serves me right, there is a "FUEL NEXT EXIT" road sign that has a black box with that abstract logo and Fred Meyer written in white lettering beneath it. It's been there about a year or so... it ...
by tkaye
06 Jun 2009 13:47
Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
Topic: All Pay'n Save's in Seattle as of 1980! From old ad!
Replies: 6
Views: 12415

Re: All Pay'n Save's in Seattle as of 1980! From old ad!

The Fourth & Pike location downtown (in the ca. 1917 Joshua Green Building) was the very first Pay 'n Save founded by Monte L. Bean in 1947. It survived as a PayLess and a Rite Aid until last fall when the descendants of Joshua Green, who still own the building, decided to undertake a massive re...
by tkaye
20 Apr 2009 09:11
Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
Topic: Older KFC Locations
Replies: 28
Views: 32810

Re: Older KFC Locations

For a KFC, the place is huge, and features a buffet (something i haven't seen in any of the KFCs around where I live) and a conference/banquet room. The Broadway KFC in Everett and the Sequim KFC both had buffets in the mid-'90s. (No banquet rooms, of course.) I can't imagine most KFC locations hav...
by tkaye
18 Apr 2009 15:55
Forum: History: USA Northwest/Rockies/Alaska
Topic: Three Generations of Safeway in Marysville, WA?
Replies: 7
Views: 4113

Re: Three Generations of Safeway in Marysville, WA?

Yes, the Schuck's at Fourth & State was a Safeway from 1963 to 1974. A big portion of the Feb. 28, 1963 Marysville Globe ("Washington's Pioneer Offset Weekly!") was devoted to the grand opening, which you can see here. This store was built behind a ca. 1942 Safeway (presumably the &quo...
by tkaye
12 Apr 2009 15:59
Forum: History: Shopping Centers
Topic: Spokane, WA Manito Shopping Center
Replies: 2
Views: 8422

Re: Spokane, WA Manito Shopping Center

Like most of the Gottschalks sites around the Northwest, it was one of the locations acquired in the Lamonts bankruptcy. The Manito Shopping Center was built in 1969 with Lamonts, Pay 'n Save, Ernst, and Safeway as anchors. Pay 'n Save Corp. acquired Rhodes Department Stores in 1967, changed their n...
by tkaye
28 Mar 2009 13:30
Forum: History: Specialty Retail Chains
Topic: Big Lots
Replies: 30
Views: 30265

Re: Big Lots

As for Big Lots closing stores, they pulled out of all three stores they were operating on the west side of Puget Sound (Bremerton, Port Orchard, and Sequim) in late 2006. Since they were the only stores in the region that weren't along the I-5 corridor, I would guess that the closures were part of ...
by tkaye
14 Mar 2009 22:02
Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
Topic: Burger Chef
Replies: 18
Views: 13390

Re: Burger Chef

As for Burger Chef, that was before my time, but how widespread were they in this area? Burger Chef only made it as far north as the Portland-Vancouver market. There's an intact "Cosmo 2" Burger Chef building near Portland State University. I've got to think it's only a matter of time bef...
by tkaye
14 Mar 2009 16:04
Forum: History: USA Northwest/Rockies/Alaska
Topic: Safeway Early History in Seattle
Replies: 6
Views: 3928

Safeway Early History in Seattle

I haven't really put together the complete history of the chains in this area, but none of the big chains really arrived in this area until after World War 2. I believe Safeway and A&P were the first to arrive after the war, and QFC was actually founded here in 1956, but only had about six stor...
by tkaye
26 Feb 2009 18:32
Forum: History: Specialty Retail Chains
Topic: Lucky Stores non-food chains before American Stores merger
Replies: 11
Views: 14968

Re: Lucky Stores non-food chains before American Stores merger

Pic-A-Dilly was a chain of off-price juniors stores founded in 1973 by Stuart Moldaw and acquired Lucky in 1977. (Moldaw had started Country Casuals in the late '50s and bought Ross Stores in the early '80s, which he grew from six women's sportswear shops in the SF Bay Area to a major player in the ...
by tkaye
26 Feb 2009 16:54
Forum: History: Department Store Chains
Topic: Mervyns
Replies: 94
Views: 77403

Re: Mervyns

Albertsons is a hoot. Their current logo doesn't have an apostrophe, yet the company, New Albertson's does. Albertson's, the corporation, had used the apostrophe to distinguish itself from their Albertsons "food centers" for decades. They've been doing it since the '60s-era "Western&...