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November 2005

Previously...

3 November 2005 | Link this

I was way too happy with this picture and I felt compelled to throw it up on the front page here. It's the Cala Foods location at 1095 Hyde Street in San Francisco, built in the late 1950s.

It's a beautiful store, and it was in fact the first supermarket I entered on my very first visit to California way back in 1991. It's located at the base of Nob Hill, and it's always packed. It must be fairly successful even despite the fact that it's frequented by a very pedestrian clientele and probably has a rather small average transaction.

I wonder what will happen to it when the end arrives (probably soon) for Cala Foods and Bell Markets...

6 November 2005 | Link this

The new and improved Groceteria.com Message Board is now open for business!

20 November 2005 | Link this

Another store ID if I may?

I'm almost -- but not completely -- certain this was a mid-1980s A&P Futurestore. The location is the 9600 block on North Kings Highway in Myrtle Beach SC, if that helps...

Snapped some other interesting shots along the road to Myrtle Beach this weekend. I'll try to post some soon...

28 November 2005 | Link this

I'm in an updating frame of mind, trying to tie up some loose ends so I can finally start working on the Charlotte section of the site:

• San Francisco is almost complete.
• Stockton and Bakersfield are as complete as they're likely to be for the foreseeable future.

On all these sections, I've tried a few techniques designed to make updates easier and quicker. I'm adding gallery pages rather than the pop-up windows I'd been doing, which allows me to generate the HTML right from my photo database. We'll see how it goes...

29 November 2005 | Link this

More updates, mostly photos this time:

• Albertsons
• Purity
• Mayfair Markets

29 November 2005 Later | Link this

The parade of exciting new stuff marches on:

• Cala/Bell: new photo gallery.
• Penn Fruit: long-promised magazine article on the history and demise of this chain.
• Safeway: 1932 article on the consolidation of Safeway, MacMarr, and Piggly Wiggly in the LA area.

Enjoy. More to come tonight and the rest of the week...

29 November 2005 Even Later | Link this

A Lucky update before I go to bed...

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