Ralphs, 17020 Chatsworth, Granada Hills
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- TheStranger
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Ralphs, 17020 Chatsworth, Granada Hills
From the August 1965 issue of Chain Store Age magazine.
larger: http://dtcwrt.earlracing.com/stores/csa ... ranada.jpg
This location is now a Staples and Walgreens combo (with a Walgreens false front), as seen from Live Local:
http://local.live.com/?v=2&sp=Point.pq9 ... d%20States___
larger: http://dtcwrt.earlracing.com/stores/csa ... ranada.jpg
This location is now a Staples and Walgreens combo (with a Walgreens false front), as seen from Live Local:
http://local.live.com/?v=2&sp=Point.pq9 ... d%20States___
Chris Sampang
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Can I just say that that is the coolest sign ever? It's as if George Jetson himself designed it! I now have an avatar :-)
The store opened on November 12, 1959 and the ad you have looks like it's promoting a remodel.
I moved to Granada Hills in 2001 and it was a Staples at that time but my impression from being inside the store many times is that it's a new build. Looking at the birds eye view there is a slight gable--nothing like the you see in the ad--but it points the wrong way for the Ralphs address to be on Chatsworth.
I found a reference in the Times database that it was a Ralphs as late as 1990 (perhaps later).I'm sure this store closed no later than the Hughes merger. There was a large Hughes a half mile to the south at Balboa and Devonshire and 1.5 miles to the west at Zelzah there's the strange situation of 2 Ralphs across the street from each other. (Edit: looks like greebs beat me to this...)
The store opened on November 12, 1959 and the ad you have looks like it's promoting a remodel.
I moved to Granada Hills in 2001 and it was a Staples at that time but my impression from being inside the store many times is that it's a new build. Looking at the birds eye view there is a slight gable--nothing like the you see in the ad--but it points the wrong way for the Ralphs address to be on Chatsworth.
I found a reference in the Times database that it was a Ralphs as late as 1990 (perhaps later).I'm sure this store closed no later than the Hughes merger. There was a large Hughes a half mile to the south at Balboa and Devonshire and 1.5 miles to the west at Zelzah there's the strange situation of 2 Ralphs across the street from each other. (Edit: looks like greebs beat me to this...)
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Yeah, Jeff, I think you're right. It looks like a sideways gable with the entrance on Chatsworth which is how the Staples is oriented. I don't see any doors on the gable end behind the Jetsons sign.
I'm surprised I've never noticed this before since I'm shopping there or Walgreens a few times a month.
I'm surprised I've never noticed this before since I'm shopping there or Walgreens a few times a month.
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2& ... ne=6823596
Here is the sign of the store in Orange.
Anyone know what the Circuit City was before? Its a very odd store, and doesn't resemble an Akrons store.
Here is the sign of the store in Orange.
Anyone know what the Circuit City was before? Its a very odd store, and doesn't resemble an Akrons store.
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It was indeed an Akron. (I thought it looked more like a Thrifty.) The address (1407 W. Chapman) is listed in an Akron ad from December 1976. The grand opening as a Circuit City was on November 1, 1985. The first 5 Socal CC stores opened on that day.Jeff wrote:Anyone know what the Circuit City was before? Its a very odd store, and doesn't resemble an Akrons store.