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I started a thread on this board inquiring about what some of the old grocery stores are in Marin County. There are a few reponses here
http://marinnostalgia.org/forum.html

I'm assuming the post for the Tiburon Safeway is accurate? I'm not sure if that was your post or not. I do know there is a grocery store across the street but maybe not a Safeway at one time. I am wondering if this Bell was the Safeway intended to be the geodesic dome(posted elsewhere on this site) since it is such an odd design. The only pyramid type Safeway I have seen.

storeliker wrote:I'm assuming the post for the Tiburon Safeway is accurate? I'm not sure if that was your post or not. I do know there is a grocery store across the street but maybe not a Safeway at one time. I am wondering if this Bell was the Safeway intended to be the geodesic dome(posted elsewhere on this site) since it is such an odd design. The only pyramid type Safeway I have seen.

That was my post too :) This is also the only store I have seen with this exact design, but the Safeway at 5290 Diamond Heights Blvd. in San Francisco from about 1965 also has a pyramid ceiling, minus the clarestory windows at the top. The market across the street is the gable-roofed Boardwalk market at 1550 Tiburon Blvd. I wonder too if this was where the Harbor Point geodesic dome store was supposed to be built. A search for Harbor Point seemed to point that as being southeast Mill Valley, though, as evidenced by a tennis club with that location. On the other hand, this Bell Market is just a couple of blocks from a harbor. Either way, the backdrop happens to be very similar to that in the artist's rendition, and the pyramid roof is close enough to a dome shape. Overall, this actual Safeway location was a good substitute for what would have been something great.

Tiburon Bell (downtown) is definitely a former Safeway. Closed by Safeway sometime in the mid 1990's.

The Safeway store at 555 Miller Avenue in Mill Valley, Marin County, California, apparently opened in September of 1975.
See "Santa Cruz Sentinel," September 14, 1975, p. 38 (Safeway ad).
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19750914.1.38

The same month (maybe even the same day), a new Safeway store opened at 1554 First Street in Livermore (Alameda County), as this Safeway ad notes. The Livermore store replaced a "Marina"-style Safeway store in the same general shopping center that opened circa 1961 at First and Q streets. The early 1960s Safeway building was converted into an Orchard Supply Hardware store. The Safeway store building that opened in 1975 in Livermore was expanded significantly circa 2000 and still is in use in 2021.

...and the Mill Valley Safeway was a replacement for a 1955 supermarket on the same site: http://pleasantfamilyshopping.blogspot. ... e.html?m=1