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Apparently there is a former JC Penney location in downtown Kirkland as well which might be of this style, although I'm not familiar enough with downtown Kirkland to know where it might have been. Guess I'll have to check on that the next time I'm in the newspaper archives. EDIT: Scratch that. I was...

I haven't exactly pinned down the opening date on that Sears store, but I believe it would have been sometime in the early to mid Seventies, and is built out of brown brick in a style that seems to be typical of Sears stores of that time. . The auto center actually has two stories (not sure what the...

As for the auto centers, the ones here in LA all became Firestone auto centers. When The Broadway sold off theirs, they became Goodyear. The Fox Hills Firestone closed in the mid-1990s and became a JCP Home/Furniture Store. I bet that was fun cleaning up 20+ years of tire center toxicity to become ...

There's a a non-mall JCPenney located in Burley, ID as well, although I've only seen it in passing (it does have modern signage though.) Presumably, it would be a smaller location than most, since it's serving a fairly sparsely populated area (there's an awful lot of middle of nowhere in Southern Id...

There are similar ads in the local newspapers from that era. It was very rare to see photographs in department store ads in that era, most ads used line art drawings like the ones you see here.

as far as malls with attached grocery stores with no mall entrance, Totem Lake Mall in Kirkland originally had one (Originally Olsen's Market Place, most recently housed a CompUSA and has now been vacant for two years) and Factoria Mall in Bellevue has a Safeway at one end, but without a mall entran...

That would be the one in Everett, right? I've been there a time or two, but don't know much about it. I've seen Olson's ads in the local papers dating back to the early 70s, but that's as much as I can tell you right now. I also know the QFC I shop at in Redmond opened as an Olsons in roughly 1994, ...

The Fred Meyer jingle is still used on current radio commercials, although it's a slightly faster version with no lyrics aside from the "You'll find it at Fred Meyer" bit at the end (the rest usually has voiceover on top of it,) and a trumpet as the lead instrument. I don't know what they'...

The link above is still not quite right (the "www" on the front isn't supposed to be there,) but I was able to get to the article. The working link is here:

http://ecommunity.uml.edu/eth_ent/addr/ ... st_163.htm

I'll need to do some research to verify this, but I believe that the first QFC store is still standing, and is being used as a Korean grocery store these days. The info I have says the first one opened in Bellevue in 1956, and the oldest Bellevue location I know of (from 1960s ads) would be the one ...

Although I'm sure someone will correct me on this, I believe that Lucky's presence in the Seattle market was a lot later than that (I've seen newspaper ads for them from the early Eighties, but haven't seen anything much earlier than that.) On the other hand, the round QFC sign on the front isn't ty...

On doing some further research last night, it looks like this store was probably built and opened sometime between 1968-1969, since I found an ad for this store in a late 1969 newspaper. If some of the other info I have is correct, the land this store is on was actually in use as farmland up until 1...

Here's something that I ran across in some of my microfilm research a couple of months ago, but the pictures I took at the time came out blurry, so I had to try again. It's an article from a November 1969 edition of the Bellevue American discussing three bag girls (which these days is something we w...

Updating this with a bit more info that I found in another microfilm session tonight: Market Basket was in fact related to Marketime, and in fact by 1967 (when both of them existed at Crossroads) they were sharing the same ads in the paper (although MB had ditched their cool logo for something a lot...

The website ( http://www.ro-tel.com/index.jsp ) comes up just fine for me. Ro-Tel seems to be more of a Southern/ Texas thing, but some stores do carry it here (I believe the last time I bought it was from Sam's Club.)