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- 02 May 2007 13:42
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Fedco
- Replies: 16
- Views: 21430
- 25 Apr 2007 01:27
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
- Topic: Winslow, AZ: Older Safeway
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4787
Went into Casey's in Winslow, the former Safeway. It seems to be a pre-Marina design, the arch is not as pronounced as on a Marina store (and the clock from Safeway days is still on the back wall!) Casey's is an interesting store in itself, an old-style hardware store with a little bit of everything...
- 11 Apr 2007 00:03
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
- Topic: Winslow, AZ: Older Safeway
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4787
- 25 Feb 2007 23:35
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: TG&Y
- Replies: 24
- Views: 19302
- 16 Feb 2007 15:55
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Department Store Gas Stations
- Replies: 38
- Views: 25861
- 15 Feb 2007 00:21
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Miscellaneous Drugstore Chain Discussion
- Replies: 25
- Views: 20239
- 14 Feb 2007 00:34
- Forum: History: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: Musicland/Defunct Record Store Chains Other Than Tower
- Replies: 39
- Views: 51519
Other record chains you may remember: Listening Booth, The Wall, Record Shop, Flip Side, Big Daddy's, National Record Mart, Waves, Camelot Music, Waxie Maxie's, Record World, Square Circle, J.R.'s Music Shop, Harmony Hut, Harmony House, Hasting's, We Three, Variety Records, Wall to Wall, Oranges Re...
- 12 Feb 2007 00:59
- Forum: History: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: Lucky Stores non-food chains before American Stores merger
- Replies: 11
- Views: 15061
- 09 Feb 2007 00:48
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
- Topic: Bashas'
- Replies: 27
- Views: 32733
Here is a photo including the Bashas' in downtown Glendale in the 60s http://www.acmeron.com/arizona/glendale%20bashas.jpg The building is now gov't offices and still has the pylon. Down the street a few blocks is a former pyloned Safeway which is now Ceretta Candy Co. Until the 70s most Bashas' wer...
- 04 Feb 2007 01:00
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Thrifty Drug in the Northwest
- Replies: 48
- Views: 52422
When RiteAid acquired THRIFTY...the Southern California THRIFTY ice cream plant was maintained as a unit of RiteAid. The site is off the 10 fwy...I believe that area is considered El Monte. My FIRST job ever was working @ Thrifty...scooping ice cream! single=15 cents, double=30 cents and triple=45 ...
- 30 Jan 2007 14:24
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Hughes Market in Southern California
- Replies: 37
- Views: 37655
Re: Hughes La Habra
I remember seeing ads for Hughes/El Rancho Markets, but ours was just plain Hughes. Never did see the El Rancho locations. Hughes bought El Rancho in 1979. The El Rancho locations were in Arcadia, Pasadena, South Pasadena, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Irvine, Laguna Hills, and an area of Newpor...
- 13 Jan 2007 23:22
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Extinct Supermarket Merchandise
- Replies: 177
- Views: 99711
- 10 Jan 2007 13:17
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Extinct Supermarket Merchandise
- Replies: 177
- Views: 99711
- 04 Jan 2007 18:25
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Sacramento: Retro McDonalds - original or newer?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 19044
- 04 Jan 2007 18:20
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Sacramento: Retro McDonalds - original or newer?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 19044
BTW, Sacramento was the home of the first McDonald's franchise, I believe. This was the first franchise that the McDonald brothers sold, several years before Ray Kroc was in the picture. It was located on Fruitridge Avenue near Stockton Boulevard. They tore down the original (very much modified) bu...