Posted: 23 Oct 2006 19:50
A far shot from an intersection of the Banff reverse marina.
http://travel.webshots.com/photo/107792 ... 4682FPfIok
A newish looking site with boxy architecture that may be a remodel of a 70s store, in a Burnaby mall:
http://travel.webshots.com/photo/116135 ... 5208CcMekH
Here's a shot of the artist's rendering of the new Safeway at Osborne in Winnipeg:
http://www.newwinnipeg.com/news/2004/05-04safeway.htm
A picturesque shot in Canmore:
http://www.monarchbandb.com/safeway.JPG
Here's a new angle of the Banff reverse marina, showing how high the roof is compared to the small stone wings.
http://www.toloco.net/tour/shopping-img/safeway.jpg
A shot of a former Safeway in Vermillion, AB:
http://www.touralbertamainstreets.ca/vermilion.htm
Former Safeway, a marina now subdivided as a false-front strip mall, in Thunder Bay, ON:
http://my.tbaytel.net/jmehagan/tours/cr ... crest.html
http://my.tbaytel.net/jmehagan/tours/cr ... ayroof.jpg
On the other hand, here's an active Safeway in Thunder Bay, from an image post at a skyscraper forum:
http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/4646 ... way0iy.jpg
Another active one in Thunder Bay, with the Canadian Safeway script:
http://www.tomjonescorp.com/Commercial/ ... afeway.htm
Former safeway in the dead Heritage Mall in Edmonton:
http://flickr.com/photos/sharek/13508897/
Former Safeway mentioned in New Westminster, BC:
http://www.cknw.com/station/history.cfm
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q ... 1&t=k&om=1
Former Safeway on Main Street in Chilliwack:
http://www.chilliwack.ca/main/page.cfm?id=1285
http://www.chilliwack.ca/main/attachmen ... re_big.gif
1980s or early 1990s photo of Safeway in Osborne Village Winnipeg, 471 River Avenue:
http://wbi.lib.umanitoba.ca/WinnipegBui ... on?id=1587
The page gives a 1973 construction date for this store, and it has since been demolished and replaced (the demolition photos have been linked before in this thread).
Regina Safeway marina on 13th Avenue, complete with very old sign:
http://queencityimages.blogspot.com/200 ... -more.html
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5701 ... ollage.jpg
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Former Safeway marinas in the Vancouver area mentioned on a USENET newsgroup...
http://tinyurl.com/ynhgmy
Broadway and Maple, now IGA
http://tinyurl.com/ydwxhh
41st and Dunbar, now IGA:
http://tinyurl.com/yfoc9j
former Safeway site, now Buy-Low, 4th and Alma
http://tinyurl.com/ykjs48
an existing marina Safeway in Vancouver, 70th and Granville:
USENET post: http://tinyurl.com/ycl86w
googlemap: http://tinyurl.com/yda4c8
former Safeway, now another buy-low, 6095 Fraser
USENET: http://tinyurl.com/yf2g4a
googlemap: http://tinyurl.com/ye6a89
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From the Malls and Other Stores MSN group, a couple of great shots of the still-operating marina Safeway in Chilliwack, BC:
http://groups.msn.com/MallsandotherStor ... PhotoID=43
http://groups.msn.com/MallsandotherStor ... PhotoID=46
The Heritage Mall closed Safeway in Edmonton, again:
http://groups.msn.com/MallsandotherStor ... PhotoID=28
http://groups.msn.com/MallsandotherStor ... PhotoID=26
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Here's a true goldmine: Imagescanada.ca which has (at last count) 63 vintage Safeway photos.
http://tinyurl.com/yb77d9
6th Street, Lethbridge, interior:
http://tinyurl.com/ybqjqt
Pylon store under construction, Calgary, 10th Street/3rd Ave NW, January 1955:
http://tinyurl.com/ybja34
Pylon in view, Calgary, 9th Avenue and 6th Street SE, 1955:
http://tinyurl.com/yb4nlk
Interior in Red Deer, AB:
http://tinyurl.com/ymbu6a
BEAUTIFUL marina with unusual sweeping wings, Mayor Magrath Drive, Lethbridge, AB. These photos all are early 1960s and absolutely stunning.
http://tinyurl.com/ygrz6c - interior with marina ceiling
http://tinyurl.com/ygcvos - meat department
http://tinyurl.com/yfsdh6 - exterior shot (notice the thin wing wall, which also exists on some current Winnipeg marina Safewas)
http://tinyurl.com/yehl6l - produce department, color photo
http://tinyurl.com/yjm7vx - left wing, good shot of the unique concave wing roof
http://tinyurl.com/yey7j6 - checkstands
http://tinyurl.com/yav3gj - GREAT color shot from the parking lot
http://tinyurl.com/yftak5 - black and white photo, produce department
http://tinyurl.com/ych2ks - marina ceiling, facing checkstand area
http://tinyurl.com/yh2whb - strawberry display
http://tinyurl.com/ygsmqj - angle shot from street
1939 shot of a Safeway in Wetaskiwin, AB:
http://tinyurl.com/yh5g9x
1930 interior shot of same store: http://tinyurl.com/yn4enf
Small Safeway, 1959, 4th Street/25th Avenue SW, Calgary:
http://tinyurl.com/ygv6z8
It looks like it was replaced with this reverse marina (the second one I know of, after Banff) at 2501 4th SW, ca. 1962:
http://tinyurl.com/ylcph4
http://tinyurl.com/yjxbpo
Looking at an overhead from Google Maps, this seems to have been replaced again (on the same site) with the 524 Elbow Drive SW store.
http://tinyurl.com/ydw9dc
Safeway under construction, 1955, in Calgary between 4th and 5th:
http://tinyurl.com/ycll2n
1971 interior decor, Red Deer, AB:
http://tinyurl.com/yz7r8j
An intriguing wavy-awning box prototype, 1965, Grand Prairie Plaza, Grand Prarie AB:
http://tinyurl.com/y9uc5n
1931 store in Edmonton, AB:
http://tinyurl.com/yn6yc5
1959 store with the wavy-awning box style, Haysboro Shopping Plaza, Calgary (with very googie Safeway circle S freestanding sign):
http://tinyurl.com/yn2dx9
1955-era photo with the "tuning fork" and spinning circle S Safeway sign (similar to Alisal Avenue closed store in Salinas, CA), Calgary, 16th Ave/29th Street
http://tinyurl.com/yzqw4v
1959 store with the wavy-awning box style, 7607 Elbow Drive SW/Kingsland shopping center, Calgary
http://tinyurl.com/yfgzbj
wavy-awning entrance, 8th Street at 16th Ave SW, Calgary, 1960
http://tinyurl.com/ykobdb
1935 Edmonton location:
http://tinyurl.com/yzbulv
Small store with 1960s signage, 17th Ave and 14th St. SW, Calgary, 1963
http://tinyurl.com/yjxqr7
Pylon/box store, 10th and Gladstone, 1970, sign very similar to the Cedar Hills store that tesg posted in the Northwest thread:
http://tinyurl.com/yeg926
1955 new pylon/box store at 8th Avenue East in Calgary:
http://tinyurl.com/yc2y4s
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Store under renovation in Prince Rupert.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mig/294110395/
---
A collection of photos from an average Safeway in Calgary.
http://www.vanmega.com/photos/saturday/ ... urnal.html
---
2000 close-up shot of the Banff reverse marina.
http://tinyurl.com/vxjd9
Winnipeg-area Safeway, from a grade school fieldtrip.
http://www.wsd1.org/rockwood/pages/rm17/safeway.htm
1992 ad for a new Safeway prototype being built in Langley, BC.
http://www.atelierdesign.net/gallerypages/safeway.html
NICE shot of the Main Street marina in Winnipeg, which has been posted earlier in thread. It's a good sign that, to quote this article, this is one of "quite a few stores of a similar design still in use in Winnipeg."
http://www.archiseek.com/guides/canada/ ... feway.html
The big find from this is the 1960s freestanding sign, a prototype I have only seen on another Canadian store (photograph posted earlier):
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Prince George, BC former Safeway now serving as Good Time Bingo.
http://www.anikionline.com/old_friends/ ... eorge.html
http://www.anikionline.com/old_friends/ ... afeway.jpg
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Beautiful gull-wing marina in Duncan, BC, a staging point for a 2004 Land Rover rally.
http://www.topicalisland.com/vanislelan ... 004-2.html
http://www.topicalisland.com/vanislelan ... feway1.jpg
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Interior shots of the Banff reverse marina, showing its glulam beams....
http://snow-reports.net/abroad-banff-1.htm
---
Nice snowy shot of a very recent Calgary Safeway:
http://flickr.com/photos/tkempen/308625935/
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12/2/06: Fort Frances, Ontario.
http://flickr.com/photos/picard102/312326947/
http://flickr.com/photos/picard102/312326905/
Interesting little "pipes" on the back of a Safeway in Collingwood, a Vancouver neighborhood.
http://flickr.com/photos/tomass/311801122/
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12/11/06: A Manitoba Safeway with a sign VERY similar to the Main Street Winnipeg marina, but in the lot of a store that looks to be a remodeled shakeroof building.
http://flickr.com/photos/omegaman/320115572/
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12/25: night shot of marina in Regina, Saskatchewan.
http://flickr.com/photos/46111652@N00/328932175/
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1/2/07: day shot of Regina, SK marina.
http://flickr.com/photos/frogboy/342079171/
Same photographer also saw the old "S" carts there:
http://flickr.com/photos/frogboy/342079631/
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1/8/07: a mall Safeway in Regina is mentioned here:
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/ ... 9fb3568056
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2/9/07: Kenora, Ontario waterfront Safeway, new photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17237088@N00/380678150/
A 2005 view of a marina in Saskatoon, with early 1990s aisle hangers:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheila_steele/68458844/
http://travel.webshots.com/photo/107792 ... 4682FPfIok
A newish looking site with boxy architecture that may be a remodel of a 70s store, in a Burnaby mall:
http://travel.webshots.com/photo/116135 ... 5208CcMekH
Here's a shot of the artist's rendering of the new Safeway at Osborne in Winnipeg:
http://www.newwinnipeg.com/news/2004/05-04safeway.htm
A picturesque shot in Canmore:
http://www.monarchbandb.com/safeway.JPG
Here's a new angle of the Banff reverse marina, showing how high the roof is compared to the small stone wings.
http://www.toloco.net/tour/shopping-img/safeway.jpg
A shot of a former Safeway in Vermillion, AB:
http://www.touralbertamainstreets.ca/vermilion.htm
Former Safeway, a marina now subdivided as a false-front strip mall, in Thunder Bay, ON:
http://my.tbaytel.net/jmehagan/tours/cr ... crest.html
http://my.tbaytel.net/jmehagan/tours/cr ... ayroof.jpg
On the other hand, here's an active Safeway in Thunder Bay, from an image post at a skyscraper forum:
http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/4646 ... way0iy.jpg
Another active one in Thunder Bay, with the Canadian Safeway script:
http://www.tomjonescorp.com/Commercial/ ... afeway.htm
Former safeway in the dead Heritage Mall in Edmonton:
http://flickr.com/photos/sharek/13508897/
Former Safeway mentioned in New Westminster, BC:
http://www.cknw.com/station/history.cfm
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q ... 1&t=k&om=1
Former Safeway on Main Street in Chilliwack:
http://www.chilliwack.ca/main/page.cfm?id=1285
http://www.chilliwack.ca/main/attachmen ... re_big.gif
1980s or early 1990s photo of Safeway in Osborne Village Winnipeg, 471 River Avenue:
http://wbi.lib.umanitoba.ca/WinnipegBui ... on?id=1587
The page gives a 1973 construction date for this store, and it has since been demolished and replaced (the demolition photos have been linked before in this thread).
Regina Safeway marina on 13th Avenue, complete with very old sign:
http://queencityimages.blogspot.com/200 ... -more.html
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5701 ... ollage.jpg
---
Former Safeway marinas in the Vancouver area mentioned on a USENET newsgroup...
http://tinyurl.com/ynhgmy
Broadway and Maple, now IGA
http://tinyurl.com/ydwxhh
41st and Dunbar, now IGA:
http://tinyurl.com/yfoc9j
former Safeway site, now Buy-Low, 4th and Alma
http://tinyurl.com/ykjs48
an existing marina Safeway in Vancouver, 70th and Granville:
USENET post: http://tinyurl.com/ycl86w
googlemap: http://tinyurl.com/yda4c8
former Safeway, now another buy-low, 6095 Fraser
USENET: http://tinyurl.com/yf2g4a
googlemap: http://tinyurl.com/ye6a89
---
From the Malls and Other Stores MSN group, a couple of great shots of the still-operating marina Safeway in Chilliwack, BC:
http://groups.msn.com/MallsandotherStor ... PhotoID=43
http://groups.msn.com/MallsandotherStor ... PhotoID=46
The Heritage Mall closed Safeway in Edmonton, again:
http://groups.msn.com/MallsandotherStor ... PhotoID=28
http://groups.msn.com/MallsandotherStor ... PhotoID=26
---
Here's a true goldmine: Imagescanada.ca which has (at last count) 63 vintage Safeway photos.
http://tinyurl.com/yb77d9
6th Street, Lethbridge, interior:
http://tinyurl.com/ybqjqt
Pylon store under construction, Calgary, 10th Street/3rd Ave NW, January 1955:
http://tinyurl.com/ybja34
Pylon in view, Calgary, 9th Avenue and 6th Street SE, 1955:
http://tinyurl.com/yb4nlk
Interior in Red Deer, AB:
http://tinyurl.com/ymbu6a
BEAUTIFUL marina with unusual sweeping wings, Mayor Magrath Drive, Lethbridge, AB. These photos all are early 1960s and absolutely stunning.
http://tinyurl.com/ygrz6c - interior with marina ceiling
http://tinyurl.com/ygcvos - meat department
http://tinyurl.com/yfsdh6 - exterior shot (notice the thin wing wall, which also exists on some current Winnipeg marina Safewas)
http://tinyurl.com/yehl6l - produce department, color photo
http://tinyurl.com/yjm7vx - left wing, good shot of the unique concave wing roof
http://tinyurl.com/yey7j6 - checkstands
http://tinyurl.com/yav3gj - GREAT color shot from the parking lot
http://tinyurl.com/yftak5 - black and white photo, produce department
http://tinyurl.com/ych2ks - marina ceiling, facing checkstand area
http://tinyurl.com/yh2whb - strawberry display
http://tinyurl.com/ygsmqj - angle shot from street
1939 shot of a Safeway in Wetaskiwin, AB:
http://tinyurl.com/yh5g9x
1930 interior shot of same store: http://tinyurl.com/yn4enf
Small Safeway, 1959, 4th Street/25th Avenue SW, Calgary:
http://tinyurl.com/ygv6z8
It looks like it was replaced with this reverse marina (the second one I know of, after Banff) at 2501 4th SW, ca. 1962:
http://tinyurl.com/ylcph4
http://tinyurl.com/yjxbpo
Looking at an overhead from Google Maps, this seems to have been replaced again (on the same site) with the 524 Elbow Drive SW store.
http://tinyurl.com/ydw9dc
Safeway under construction, 1955, in Calgary between 4th and 5th:
http://tinyurl.com/ycll2n
1971 interior decor, Red Deer, AB:
http://tinyurl.com/yz7r8j
An intriguing wavy-awning box prototype, 1965, Grand Prairie Plaza, Grand Prarie AB:
http://tinyurl.com/y9uc5n
1931 store in Edmonton, AB:
http://tinyurl.com/yn6yc5
1959 store with the wavy-awning box style, Haysboro Shopping Plaza, Calgary (with very googie Safeway circle S freestanding sign):
http://tinyurl.com/yn2dx9
1955-era photo with the "tuning fork" and spinning circle S Safeway sign (similar to Alisal Avenue closed store in Salinas, CA), Calgary, 16th Ave/29th Street
http://tinyurl.com/yzqw4v
1959 store with the wavy-awning box style, 7607 Elbow Drive SW/Kingsland shopping center, Calgary
http://tinyurl.com/yfgzbj
wavy-awning entrance, 8th Street at 16th Ave SW, Calgary, 1960
http://tinyurl.com/ykobdb
1935 Edmonton location:
http://tinyurl.com/yzbulv
Small store with 1960s signage, 17th Ave and 14th St. SW, Calgary, 1963
http://tinyurl.com/yjxqr7
Pylon/box store, 10th and Gladstone, 1970, sign very similar to the Cedar Hills store that tesg posted in the Northwest thread:
http://tinyurl.com/yeg926
1955 new pylon/box store at 8th Avenue East in Calgary:
http://tinyurl.com/yc2y4s
---
Store under renovation in Prince Rupert.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mig/294110395/
---
A collection of photos from an average Safeway in Calgary.
http://www.vanmega.com/photos/saturday/ ... urnal.html
---
2000 close-up shot of the Banff reverse marina.
http://tinyurl.com/vxjd9
Winnipeg-area Safeway, from a grade school fieldtrip.
http://www.wsd1.org/rockwood/pages/rm17/safeway.htm
1992 ad for a new Safeway prototype being built in Langley, BC.
http://www.atelierdesign.net/gallerypages/safeway.html
NICE shot of the Main Street marina in Winnipeg, which has been posted earlier in thread. It's a good sign that, to quote this article, this is one of "quite a few stores of a similar design still in use in Winnipeg."
http://www.archiseek.com/guides/canada/ ... feway.html
The big find from this is the 1960s freestanding sign, a prototype I have only seen on another Canadian store (photograph posted earlier):
---
Prince George, BC former Safeway now serving as Good Time Bingo.
http://www.anikionline.com/old_friends/ ... eorge.html
http://www.anikionline.com/old_friends/ ... afeway.jpg
---
Beautiful gull-wing marina in Duncan, BC, a staging point for a 2004 Land Rover rally.
http://www.topicalisland.com/vanislelan ... 004-2.html
http://www.topicalisland.com/vanislelan ... feway1.jpg
---
Interior shots of the Banff reverse marina, showing its glulam beams....
http://snow-reports.net/abroad-banff-1.htm
---
Nice snowy shot of a very recent Calgary Safeway:
http://flickr.com/photos/tkempen/308625935/
---
12/2/06: Fort Frances, Ontario.
http://flickr.com/photos/picard102/312326947/
http://flickr.com/photos/picard102/312326905/
Interesting little "pipes" on the back of a Safeway in Collingwood, a Vancouver neighborhood.
http://flickr.com/photos/tomass/311801122/
---
12/11/06: A Manitoba Safeway with a sign VERY similar to the Main Street Winnipeg marina, but in the lot of a store that looks to be a remodeled shakeroof building.
http://flickr.com/photos/omegaman/320115572/
---
12/25: night shot of marina in Regina, Saskatchewan.
http://flickr.com/photos/46111652@N00/328932175/
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1/2/07: day shot of Regina, SK marina.
http://flickr.com/photos/frogboy/342079171/
Same photographer also saw the old "S" carts there:
http://flickr.com/photos/frogboy/342079631/
---
1/8/07: a mall Safeway in Regina is mentioned here:
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/ ... 9fb3568056
---
2/9/07: Kenora, Ontario waterfront Safeway, new photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17237088@N00/380678150/
A 2005 view of a marina in Saskatoon, with early 1990s aisle hangers:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheila_steele/68458844/