Central PA questions
Posted: 21 Jan 2011 03:20
Hey everyone, one of my most recent projects (I have many at once, haha) is compiling information on former stores in central PA for some upcoming trips I'd like to take out there in the spring and summer. I've been able to find information and locations for quite a few stores over the last few months, a few here and there, but there are a couple of stores for which I've found information that they existed (primarily through Google News Archives), but can't find the locations for. Since I know a few of you are familiar with this area I thought I'd ask for help.
Carlisle - Acme
I'm thinking Spring Garden St? There is a new Giant at 255 S. Spring Garden, but next to it is a Dollar General that used to be a very old Revco (store 179, or CVS 3179).
Carlisle - Safeway
An article from western PA in the late 70s lists the only four PA Safeways as being in Carlisle, Dover (Weigelstown), Shrewsbury, and Chambersburg. The Weis at 351 E. High St has a slightly arched roof that definitely isn't Weis prototype; perhaps this was it?
Chambersburg - A&P
I've found two Acmes, a Food Fair, an old Food Lion, and a really old Giant accounted for, but nothing as far as A&P goes.
Chambersburg - JC Penney
Info says that the JC Penney in the Chambersburg Mall opened in 1995 and relocated from somewhere else in town. Maybe downtown?
Harrisburg - Safeway
A post on here said there was a Safeway in Harrisburg, unless that just referred to the Harrisburg area in general.
Red Lion - Acme
Red Lion - A&P
Red Lion - Peoples Drug (probably downtown)
I can't find any info on the older stores in Red Lion, although there was an 80s Super Fresh at Dairyland Square that's now a Great Valu.
Waynesboro - Acme
One person on a Facebook page about Waynesboro history said it was "behind the Sheetz downtown", but that would make it the former Rea & Derick/ CVS at 40 S. Broad St, which was a former Safeway (unless that's incorrect).
York - Safeway
One of the two York Safeways is accounted for, the one in West York (currently Super Shoes). The other I'm not sure about; one post said it was where Ollie's used to be on S. Queen St, but I can only find the one at 2142 S. Queen St, which looks like it used to be part of a much larger store. Maybe it was the Price Rite in the same center? In an obituary it was mentioned as East York, but I'm not sure if that area of town counts as "east".
I also have a few mysteries:
Cleona - I thought the former Zayre was currently the Big Lots/ Rite Aid, but a commenter on my Flickr said that the Zayre was the current Giant. The dates match up, as the Zayre closed in early 1990 and the Giant was early to mid 90s, but that then adds the question as to what was the current Big Lots building? And if it actually was the Big Lots, then what was there before Giant if anything?
Lancaster - The East Towne Mall once included a Grant City and a Revco, but what was the other anchor that's now Staples & Burlington? There's also a building on the end that's now partially Dollar Tree; I wonder if that could have been a grocery store.
York - Yorktowne Mall, 133 N. Duke St downtown used to have a Revco that became a CVS for a few years before closing; it also had a grocery store next to it. The store was a Save-A-Lot from 1995 to 2007, and previous to that was a store called Kash & Karry (I'm assuming no relation to the stores that are part of Food Lion) that closed in 1986, being vacant in between. Would it have been anything else before that?
York - Any other info on the center at 2142 S. Queen St? Regardless if it included a Safeway it looks like it had both a department-size and supermarket-size store at one point.
Sorry for the lengthy post, but I wanted to spread things out to keep it less confusing. Thanks in advance for any help!
Josh
Carlisle - Acme
I'm thinking Spring Garden St? There is a new Giant at 255 S. Spring Garden, but next to it is a Dollar General that used to be a very old Revco (store 179, or CVS 3179).
Carlisle - Safeway
An article from western PA in the late 70s lists the only four PA Safeways as being in Carlisle, Dover (Weigelstown), Shrewsbury, and Chambersburg. The Weis at 351 E. High St has a slightly arched roof that definitely isn't Weis prototype; perhaps this was it?
Chambersburg - A&P
I've found two Acmes, a Food Fair, an old Food Lion, and a really old Giant accounted for, but nothing as far as A&P goes.
Chambersburg - JC Penney
Info says that the JC Penney in the Chambersburg Mall opened in 1995 and relocated from somewhere else in town. Maybe downtown?
Harrisburg - Safeway
A post on here said there was a Safeway in Harrisburg, unless that just referred to the Harrisburg area in general.
Red Lion - Acme
Red Lion - A&P
Red Lion - Peoples Drug (probably downtown)
I can't find any info on the older stores in Red Lion, although there was an 80s Super Fresh at Dairyland Square that's now a Great Valu.
Waynesboro - Acme
One person on a Facebook page about Waynesboro history said it was "behind the Sheetz downtown", but that would make it the former Rea & Derick/ CVS at 40 S. Broad St, which was a former Safeway (unless that's incorrect).
York - Safeway
One of the two York Safeways is accounted for, the one in West York (currently Super Shoes). The other I'm not sure about; one post said it was where Ollie's used to be on S. Queen St, but I can only find the one at 2142 S. Queen St, which looks like it used to be part of a much larger store. Maybe it was the Price Rite in the same center? In an obituary it was mentioned as East York, but I'm not sure if that area of town counts as "east".
I also have a few mysteries:
Cleona - I thought the former Zayre was currently the Big Lots/ Rite Aid, but a commenter on my Flickr said that the Zayre was the current Giant. The dates match up, as the Zayre closed in early 1990 and the Giant was early to mid 90s, but that then adds the question as to what was the current Big Lots building? And if it actually was the Big Lots, then what was there before Giant if anything?
Lancaster - The East Towne Mall once included a Grant City and a Revco, but what was the other anchor that's now Staples & Burlington? There's also a building on the end that's now partially Dollar Tree; I wonder if that could have been a grocery store.
York - Yorktowne Mall, 133 N. Duke St downtown used to have a Revco that became a CVS for a few years before closing; it also had a grocery store next to it. The store was a Save-A-Lot from 1995 to 2007, and previous to that was a store called Kash & Karry (I'm assuming no relation to the stores that are part of Food Lion) that closed in 1986, being vacant in between. Would it have been anything else before that?
York - Any other info on the center at 2142 S. Queen St? Regardless if it included a Safeway it looks like it had both a department-size and supermarket-size store at one point.
Sorry for the lengthy post, but I wanted to spread things out to keep it less confusing. Thanks in advance for any help!
Josh