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- 05 Jan 2007 00:56
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Sacramento: Retro McDonalds - original or newer?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 19031
(Sorry for going off topic for a minute there...) McDonalds has been using the original Downey store as a prototype for a few years. For many years they tried to shut down that store since it was a pre-franchise store but McDs got new leadership who saw the value in the architecture and preserved i...
- 29 Dec 2006 15:08
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Extinct Supermarket Merchandise
- Replies: 177
- Views: 96896
- 26 Dec 2006 04:03
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Food Barn locations in LA, OC, Riverside, and LV, 1980-84
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4864
- 24 Dec 2006 02:16
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Extinct Supermarket Merchandise
- Replies: 177
- Views: 96896
- 23 Dec 2006 23:18
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Extinct Supermarket Merchandise
- Replies: 177
- Views: 96896
- 23 Dec 2006 02:39
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Christmas Jingles
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7302
- 23 Dec 2006 02:34
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Extinct Supermarket Merchandise
- Replies: 177
- Views: 96896
Check cashing---by the 80s, some stores like Jewel were set-up so that the store store would function like a branch bak for depositing a paycheck Boys Markets had these up until the early 80's in CA, separate from the rest of the store out in front. ATM's made these obsolete. I can think of a coupl...
- 14 Dec 2006 14:24
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Has anyone ever heard of "The Daylin Corporation"?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11363
Funny to think, if Disco Wonderland had hung on just a couple of more years, people who were not already familiar with it would have probably thought they were a chain of record stores or some kind of nightclub/roller disco. Maybe they could have repositioned themselves into that direction due to a...
- 12 Dec 2006 05:30
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Has anyone ever heard of "The Daylin Corporation"?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11363
- 01 Dec 2006 03:30
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: KMart grocery stores before SuperKMart
- Replies: 76
- Views: 88201
The Kmart in Covina had a District office next to it. it was added sometime in the early 90's if i'm correct. The Kmart in West Covina started out as a Save Co. in the early 60's then by 1970 was a Cal Store until Kmart moved in sometime in 1977 or 78. It also had a Vendome Liquor which opened on N...
- 28 Nov 2006 04:56
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Fairfield, CA: former Denny's or Sambo's?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5550
- 28 Nov 2006 04:49
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Sprouse Reitz
- Replies: 15
- Views: 16830
- 21 Nov 2006 16:43
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Former Alpha Beta locations
- Replies: 39
- Views: 34785
- 19 Nov 2006 16:48
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Pavilions history
- Replies: 36
- Views: 19216
- 19 Nov 2006 03:19
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Pavilions history
- Replies: 36
- Views: 19216
IIRC, the first Pavillions was opened in a former Zody's in Garden Grove. I had been to that store many times as a kid. That area was becoming very upscale at the time, and Vons created the idea to bring in shoppers with higher incomes (definitely not my family at that time). Maybe it has something ...