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We have two Bristol farms. This one was a restaurant off Sunset. I cant remember the name: http://www.vision.caltech.edu/pmoreels/Images/SantaBarbara2LASept04/I276_7653.jpg And the former Chasens Restaurant in Beverly Hills is also a Bristol Farms market: Bristol Farms Grocery Store/Supermarket loca...

In Pomona, a former Giant / Ralphs store is now home to an elementary school.

Haha. I remember going to the one in Arcadia all the time. It was the only one around these parts. I still live in Monterey Park and my mom when I was young used to take me there all the time. So, there werent many around.

Early 80 stores were brown.

Here, I never saw a Service Merchandise close to a Best store. They were two cities over, or so.

I remember Alphy's. There was one in Rosemead, CA next to the Alpha Beta. It closed in the late 80's and reopened as several other coffee shops, before eventually becoming a chinese restaurant (with the Alpha Beta a Ralphs, now a chinese market) Its still there, and last time I remember, still looke...

Both around here that I can remember were turned into bakers square restaurants. One closed last year in Alhambra and is being remodeled into shops, the other in montebello is still open, but has no remnants of the original building.

Wow, I hadn't thought of Gemco in years. There was one in San Gabriel where I grew up that my family frequented weekly to do our grocery shopping and other shopping needs. I believe that too had become a Target for a while, it's been 21 years since I lived in Southern California so who knows what i...

Last year, I went to a Target in Moreno Valley, Ca that still had the original interior from when the store opened in the 80's:

The brown motif, dark interior with a lot of low hanging ceilings.

Anyone remember these old interiors. I also wonder if this store is still like it.

The Kmart in East Los Angeles never had a cafeteria or food eatery at all either. This Kmart was small compared to others. Its still open today and has been in the same shopping center as a Target (that recently expanded and remodeled) since Fedmart closed the store there back in the early 80s.

The sears that I used to frequent all discontinued this in the early 90's. The Sears Puente Hills mall had the candy counter upstaris next to the elevator. The Sears in Alhambra had the candy counter upstairs near the escalators. This store was the first to discontinue the counter in the area. This ...

They were sued in the 1950's:

http://online.ceb.com/CalCases/CA2/138CA2d671.htm

that could have led to them being sold.

Many stores around here had both the deli in the front, and Cafeteria in the back.

Southern California's GEMCO chain was a full service market and Target like store. Also FEDCO's were too. Gemco Closed in 86. Fedco lasted until about 2000. Fedco stores even had Electronics and Furniture. Shopping list: Rump Roast - check Macaroni - check 20" Color Television - check New TV st...

The San Dimas marina store is still there. They didn't tear it down when they built the Albertsons next door. They just remodeled the exterior and subdivided the store inside.