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October 2005

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16 October 2005 | Link this

If it weren't in Columbia, South Carolina, I'd almost think it had been a Safeway in an earlier life. I have no idea what this used to be, and I'm not even sure it was a supermarket. It's located on Beltline Boulevard near Devine Street. Ideas?

And while I'm at it, how about this one from Camden, South Carolina. It's on US 1 just east of downtown. It may have been an independent from day one. Or not. I sure don't recognize the prototype...

22 October 2005 | Link this

Poor old, forgotten Winn-Dixie...

For those of you who care about such things, this particular one was originally a Zayre store. The Winn-Dixie relocated from elsewhere in the same center (on Cone Boulevard in Greensboro NC) in the late 1980s, after Zayre gave up on the location...

I believe this was Greensboro's first Winn-Dixie "Marketplace" location. There was one in Charlotte at Tryon and Sugar Creek with exactly the same façade; it had originally been a Woolco store, and it closed several years ago...

It's interesting to see how the ever-increasing size of supermarkets caused them to take over so many old discount stores in Greensboro. A King's store on West Market Street became a Kroger and later a Food Lion. The Kmart across the street became a relocated version of that same Kroger and then a Harris-Teeter. And Greensboro's other Zayre store was briefly reborn as a Lowes Foods...

I have my doubts that there will be a new tenant in this old Winn-Dixie anytime soon, though...

26 October 2005 | Link this

Thanks to everyone who confirmed my suspicion that the Camden SC store pictured here was in fact a former Colonial...

I'm off to San Francisco for a couple of days. No, now that you ask, I HAVEN'T missed my former home since departing in June. But I will be glad for a chance to shoot pictures of the remainingCala and Bell stores, because I'm pretty danged sure they won't be there next time I visit. Or not under those names, at least...

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