Dutch Square Mall, Columbia SC: A&P?
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Dutch Square Mall, Columbia SC: A&P?
I'm guessing it was an A&P. It looks like a detached A&P from a similar mall in High Point NC. Anyone want to confirm?
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It's very similar to the former Memorial Drive A&P which replaced a colonial A&P. The store closed as A&P just prior to A&P buying the Big Star locations from Grand Union. The Big Star was rebranded A&P, bring the tea company back to Stone Mountain after a one or two absence and remained open until the chain exited Atlanta.terryinokc wrote:I'm leaning more toward A&P. This looks very similar to stores they had in the Atlanta area in the 1980's.
I beleive another A&P in the Covington Highway area had similar architecture.
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Like I said earlier, it reminds me of the former A&P at what used to be Westchester Mall in High Point NC. There's also a similar one, also a former A&P, on Albemarle Road in Charlotte which is now a Save-A-Lot and a thrift store.krogerclerk wrote:I beleive another A&P in the Covington Highway area had similar architecture.
I was browsing this board at work earlier today and a co-worker noticed the name of the shopping center. He lived nearby and used to shop there "all the time." He insists that was a Winn-Dixie, and as others have pointed out it certainly looks Winn-Dixieish. Perhaps it was originally an A&P and spent a period of time as a WD?
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While both chains had similar facades on stores, and there are examples of A&P architecture in the Mid-Atlantic resembling this, if you'll notice, the elongated middle section for signage to me indicates Winn-Dixie here, not A&P. A&P, while having this architecture, had a smaller area in the middle for signage, not needing as much for at the time what was the oval-shaped A&P logo.
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You'd think so, but in my experience, the narrower middle section was actually more common on Winn-Dixie stores. It's just something I've noticed through observation over the years. By way of explanation, A&P stores of that 1960s vintage usually surrounded the circular A&P logo with "super" on one side and "market" on the other...danielh_512 wrote:While both chains had similar facades on stores, and there are examples of A&P architecture in the Mid-Atlantic resembling this, if you'll notice, the elongated middle section for signage to me indicates Winn-Dixie here, not A&P. A&P, while having this architecture, had a smaller area in the middle for signage, not needing as much for at the time what was the oval-shaped A&P logo.
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Re: Dutch Square Mall, Columbia SC: A&P?
A&P it is, per Columbia Closings:
http://columbiaclosings.com/wordpress/?p=579
http://columbiaclosings.com/wordpress/?p=579