Former Colonial/Big Star: Forsyth Georgia

Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

Moderator: Groceteria

Post Reply
Edric Floyd
Veteran
Posts: 206
Joined: 27 Dec 2005 02:21
Location: Warner Robins, Georgia
Contact:

Former Colonial/Big Star: Forsyth Georgia

Post by Edric Floyd »

Forsyth, Georgia is 25 miles north of Macon and 60 miles south of Atlanta.

This is a former Colonial/Big Star on E. Main Street (US-41) in the town of Forsyth. It is one block from the Monroe County courthouse.

It was a fitness club for a while and the building is currently vacant. The cars parked outside are from the auto repair shop that is across the street.

Image
Image
Image
Image
Image

This Colonial opened in the 1950's and competed with a Piggly Wiggly (PW southern before Bruno's buyout) and closed in the 1980's as Big Star.

Piggly Wiggly (around the corner) closed in the late 1990's and remained vacant. That store was opened by Freshway Market in 2005. Ingles opened a new store in the mid 1990's. The towns of Gray and Forsyth, Georgia are the furthest South of any stores in the Ingle's chain which is based in Ashville NC.

There was an independant "red and white" grocery store a block from the Colonial/Big star that later operated as a Piggly Wiggly franchise but closed in 2005 before Freshway Market took over the old PW building.

Freshway Market, Forsyth Georgia (Former Piggly Wiggly Southern)
Image
Image


Residents of Monroe county often shop in the cities where they work for lower prices. Many commute to Macon and shop at Kroger or Wal-Mart.

Forsyth does have a Wal-Mart....(Remember when Wallyworld was a very little place?)
Image

Neither the town or county commission is willing to approve ANY huge shopping in the area including Wal-Mart. They love to maintain their small town atmosphere.
User avatar
Groceteria
Great Pumpkin
Posts: 1927
Joined: 04 Nov 2005 12:13
Location: In the breakroom
Contact:

Post by Groceteria »

Great photos. Thanks.

I pushed this thread over to "regions and cities" because all the locations were already identified in the initial post, so their origins weren't really in question :)
danielh_512
Veteran
Posts: 132
Joined: 28 Dec 2005 01:33
Location: Cleveland
Contact:

Post by danielh_512 »

Love the old Wal-Mart picture. Back when Wal-Mart didn't feel like they wanted to take over the world.

That store is probably in the 600's, I figure. Looks a little newer than some of the 500 stores I remember in Tennessee that have long since been replaced.
Post Reply