Nothern California "FARMERS MARKET" chain

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Nothern California "FARMERS MARKET" chain

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I grew up in Stockton and recall a "Farmers Market" chain with two locations in East Stockton at 110 N. Filbert Street next to "Disco Department Store" and in North Stockton at 5757 Pacific Avenue next to Kmart. I remember ads on TV mentioning they had locations in Sacramento too. Any info on this chain?
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Photo of the Fairfield location, from the book "Main Street to Miracle Mile":

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I know of a couple of Sacramento locations. I think they were pretty much ocnfined to the Central Valley, but may have had some locations in far-flung parts of the Bay Area. They seem to have disappeared by the early 1980s.
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Yes, there were Farmers Markets in Sacramento. They've been closed since the early 80's.
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anyone have Sacramento location info ??
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Vics Land Park IGA in Sacramento...?

(Note that I left the ' out of "Vics" since the store is no longer owned by Vic).
http://dtcwrt.earlracing.com/stores2/113/dcfc0043.jpg

I guess this is actually a former Jumbo. For some reason I thought it was Farmer's before Vic's.

I also think a store somewhere around Franklin called Harvest Foods was a Farmer's, but do not know for certain.
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There was a Farmers on the south side of Madison east of Auburn Blvd. And I believe there was also one adjacent to the former K-Mart (now Home Depot) on Howe and Cottage. It later became Farmers Liquors, and then CompUSA.
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