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- 28 Nov 2021 10:56
- Forum: History: USA Midwest/Plains
- Topic: NEW: Duluth and Superior, 1925/30 to present
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4066
Re: NEW: Duluth and Superior, 1925/30 to present
National had a division in Duluth with stores as far east as Marquette, MI, so there should be an old distribution center somewhere which probably stuck around until the late 60s/early 70s. Even after being consolidated with Minneapolis, it ranged as far as Iron Mountain. Minneapolis was one of thei...
- 21 Nov 2021 23:51
- Forum: History: USA Midwest/Plains
- Topic: NEW: Duluth and Superior, 1925/30 to present
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4066
Re: NEW: Duluth and Superior, 1925/30 to present
I'm afraid you have Kroger and Safeway and the street names don't line up with the map.
- 21 Nov 2021 23:38
- Forum: History: USA Northeast
- Topic: Kroger in Vermont?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4072
Re: Kroger in Vermont?
St. Albans is considered a remote part of Vermont, away from any populous part of New England. It's also long been the poorest parts of Vermont. Its pretty unlikely they would have expanded there. DeKalb is a county in Georgia. Until recently, it had a small part of Atlanta proper and a small number...
- 07 Nov 2021 22:14
- Forum: History: USA Midwest/Plains
- Topic: NEW: Little Rock, 1925-2021
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3957
Re: NEW: Little Rock, 1925-2021
The Nationals were part of their Memphis division which ran ‘55-‘67. They also had stores in Nashville. The Division began with an acquisition in Memphis, followed by another one in Nashville. It looks like the Little Rock stores wer new builds during the early years. I came across an old govt repor...
- 07 Oct 2021 15:14
- Forum: History: USA Midwest/Plains
- Topic: Mystery store: 3000 N Sterling Ave, Peoria IL
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4059
Re: Mystery store: 3000 N Sterling Ave, Peoria IL
Stone accents were common for Kroger’s in the late 50s and early 60s, but not unique to them. The parapet drop is odd unless there was a sign on the side that needed to be serviced somehow from above.
Kroger’s usually had the name in front, but nothing on the side unless there was a second entrance.
Kroger’s usually had the name in front, but nothing on the side unless there was a second entrance.
- 07 Sep 2021 22:38
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: A Little Help?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4794
Re: A Little Help?
Crumbling chains? Colonial and Grand Union crumbled under the ownership of Sir James Goldmith's empire Pathmark, Food Mart, Kohl's and Farmer Jack withered as part of A&P Dominicks & Genuardi's under Safeway I'm sure there are lots of others. As for DC.......it's is an odd market in that Saf...
- 03 Sep 2021 18:44
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: A Little Help?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4794
Re: A Little Help?
Basics was a brand for Grand Union's warehouse stores--GU was gone from DC by 1990. They were bought by Foodarama of Baltimore which must have kept the name for awhile.
- 30 Aug 2021 07:46
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: Wrigley in Atlanta?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9079
Re: Wrigley in Atlanta?
The Piedmont Rd and Stewart Ave locations were Arlan's built on the sites of drive-in theaters which had had the same ownership. The Piedmont location had a long-running nightclub, if memory serves,--don't know if it was a redone commercial building or something else. Headland and Stone Mountain loo...
- 16 Jun 2021 16:38
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: NEW: Allentown PA, 1925-2021
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5354
Re: NEW: Allentown PA, 1925-2021
Acme's corporate name was "Acme Markets" for a while (60s until merger with Skagg's, et al.), after which it reverted back to American Stores.
- 08 Jun 2021 14:07
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
- Topic: NEW: Tulsa OK, 1925-2021
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5310
Re: NEW: Tulsa OK, 1925-2021
Ideal eventually came under the same ownership as Humpty Dumpty---Allied Supermarkets bought Humpty in 1959 and Ideal in 1960.
- 01 May 2021 08:25
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: "First" JCPenney Catalog
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9629
Re: "First" JCPenney Catalog
Penney's was the subject of a case study at Harvard business school in 1958. Ironically, the push into hardlines didn't last long and although their catalog outlasted Sears, it was really their old, core business that outlasted Sears and Wards. Penney's already was rapidly opening stores in suburban...
- 15 Apr 2021 10:35
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Fazio's Discount Drug
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4699
Re: Fazio's Discount Drug
Jote's is mentioned in the obit that's linked and John Fazio ran it with his second wife from Dallas after they relocated. The store on Lake Shore Blvd that is now a Marc's was, indeed, the Jote's. I've been to it in all its incarnations (even pre-Jote's). It was a former Sears store (one of their m...
- 01 Apr 2021 10:02
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: Colonial Stores in Florida
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5241
Re: Colonial Stores in Florida
Colonial had a Jacksonville Division as of 1970. The chain had been closing stores in Ohio from the mid-60s, at the outer edges of its territory there (places like Mansfield, Fremont and Lima) and had sold its Indiana stores back to their former owners in the last 50s, but otherwise seemed to be at ...
- 09 Mar 2021 23:38
- Forum: History: USA Midwest/Plains
- Topic: Kroger in Cleveland
- Replies: 7
- Views: 14411
Re: Kroger in Cleveland
Barney's was large, warehouse format. They opened it in two former discount stores (one was a Spartan-Atlantic, I don't know about the other). The Spartan-Atlantic was on Lakeland Blvd at East 305th Street in Wickliffe---it later became Carl's, a similar format operated by Fisher Foods. The building...
- 24 Feb 2021 09:16
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: What is the oldest Safeway in operation?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 28851
Re: What is the oldest Safeway in operation?
The Soviet Safeway on 17th Street at Corcoran in DC is probably a contender. The facade was remodeled at some point--probably the 70s judging from the arched style and the 17th Street storefront may have been expanded at some point. I also wouldn't be surprised if the Corcoran Street side was expand...