Store looks like a 1970s flat-roofed building.
http://flickr.com/photos/paradigm4/sets ... 449304841/
http://flickr.com/photos/paradigm4/339245628/
Interesting decor variant I have not seen before.
http://flickr.com/photos/paradigm4/3392 ... 449304841/
Surrey, BC: closing Safeway with odd decor
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My guess is that it was a "hybrid" store done between two decor packages, not unlike the Chestnut Avenue store is South San Francisco.
The design is kind of a ringer Safeway's "pastel" (my own term) package from about 1994-1999, which was applied to most Vons locations a few years later, in what looked like an attempt to get rid of excess building materials. This "pastel" package directly followed the "marketplace" package.
The only variations seem to be the font, the neon graphics, and the gabled (rather than rounded) trim. It's almost a hybrid between the marketplace package and the newer look, which suggests this may have been one of the earlier ones to receive the "pastel" treatment, before they'd nailed down all the elements. That font (I forget the name) was particularly popular in the early 1990s, which convinces me even more.
The design is kind of a ringer Safeway's "pastel" (my own term) package from about 1994-1999, which was applied to most Vons locations a few years later, in what looked like an attempt to get rid of excess building materials. This "pastel" package directly followed the "marketplace" package.
The only variations seem to be the font, the neon graphics, and the gabled (rather than rounded) trim. It's almost a hybrid between the marketplace package and the newer look, which suggests this may have been one of the earlier ones to receive the "pastel" treatment, before they'd nailed down all the elements. That font (I forget the name) was particularly popular in the early 1990s, which convinces me even more.