For your reading and viewing pleasure, a new section on Toronto and Southern Ontario, featuring over 200 photos plus a location list. As Toronto is one of yer humble host’s favorite cities, you can count on additions.
Just a quick note to reveal a new section with some new photos and a location list: Groceteria does Ottawa.
More to come…
New pages for Indianapolis and Burlington NC with location spreadsheets and photos. Pittsburgh and Columbia SC still to come, as promised earlier.
Sorry for the long lapse in content around these parts. My personal life has been less than optimal the past few months (long story) and I’ve also been very preoccupied with work.
Anyway, I’m happy to present the following for your amusement today:
- Atlanta: A location spreadsheet covering 1930-1991 and a new photo gallery. I envision some narrative here soon.
- Boston: A location spreadsheet covering 1955-1974.
- Los Angeles: A location spreadsheet covering 1932-1942.
- Portland (OR): A location spreadsheet covering 1956-1962.
Tomorrow (if my enthusiasm holds out), I’ll be posting location spreadsheets and photo galleries for Pittsburgh and Columbia SC.
And soon, I really will be completing the updated history of Safeway that I started a few months back.
This is big.
A very observant member of an Atlanta architctural firm (who’s now my hero, by the way) contacted me a few weeks ago to tell me about some materials he found while working on a client project, wondering if I might be interested. I picked the stuff up today. Turns out it came from the former headquarters of Colonial Stores and was apparently material that was simply abandoned upon the demise of the company in 1988 and had been sitting in the office ever since.
The take: twelve boxes and more than a dozen rolls of blueprints, sign plans, mechanical drawings, lease information, and other material. It seems this may be most of the records of the real estate and/or construction department of the chain. There are layouts and fixture plans dating to at least 1952, proposals for the conversion of the Albers stores in the Midwest after that chain was acquired by Colonial Stores in 1955, and lost of materials on the conversion of stores to the Big Star format in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This is incredible stuff and I am really grateful that it was saved from the dumpster and that I was able to get my hands on it. I’m just starting to go through all the boxes and I’ll keep you posted.
It’s amazing what you can fit inside a 2002 Buick LeSabre when you try really hard:
