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September 2005

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5 September 2005 | Link this

Cool site here on National Tea stores in the St. Louis area, if you're so inclined...

I felt like I'd died and gone to Brady Bunch heaven when I walked into the Ingles store above in Asheville NC last weekend. It's in a semi-dying shopping center on Tunnel Road and was the most wonderfully orange and brown beauty (inside and out) that I'd seen in years...

And there's another one just like it a few miles north in Hendersonville...

10 September 2005 | Link this

From an episode of "Monk" I caught out of the corner of my eye last night, this is a store called "Beachs Market" (no apostrophe) at 7900 Imperial Boulevard in Downey CA. Does anyone have any info on what it might have been in its former life? It almost looks like it has some A&P-like features to me...

Some more pictures:

24 September 2005 | Link this

From a 1971 episode of "The Brady Bunch". I've finally made a definitive ID of this store, which was the subject of a message board thread several months back...

It's the Mayfair Market at Franklin and Bronson in Hollywood, just as I suspected. I'd guessed this before because of (1) the Victor's Liquor van shown in one shot and (2) the fact that this store is very close to Paramount Studios where the show was filmed. It's also interesting that this Mayfair Market is the last one of the chain still operating under the Mayfair name...

Tonight, I looked again after watching it on the just-released DVD set, and then I had the brilliant idea to look at the intersection on the Terraserver website, where a newer, higher resolution photo had been added since last check. And it was a perfect match to all the shots in the episode, including the strip mall across the street...

Mystery solved...

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