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- 24 Apr 2024 13:26
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: What if they tore down the Food Fair but left the pylon?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 386
Re: What if they tore down the Food Fair but left the pylon?
Could be that they left it because current zoning would not have allowed construction of a new tower sign. Just a thought.
- 21 Apr 2024 09:16
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: What if they tore down the Food Fair but left the pylon?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 386
Re: What if they tore down the Food Fair but left the pylon?
When the building was a Food Fair, would the entrance have been oriented towards the parking lot or towards the street? 32nd Street has always been a major thoroughfare. However, I don't think it was ever a walking shopping strip. There have been pictures posted elsewhere of stores in this same typ...
- 20 Apr 2024 23:21
- Forum: History: USA Northeast
- Topic: Historical Information About ShopRite Locations (Past & Present)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4890
- 20 Apr 2024 17:58
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: What if they tore down the Food Fair but left the pylon?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 386
Re: What if they tore down the Food Fair but left the pylon?
That's right. 32nd Street, I think.
I'll be adding a list of Harrisburg suburban stores soon BTW.
I'll be adding a list of Harrisburg suburban stores soon BTW.
- 13 Apr 2024 21:58
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: What if they tore down the Food Fair but left the pylon?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 386
What if they tore down the Food Fair but left the pylon?
It would look something like this oddity in suburban Harrisburg PA. I drove by it the other night and thought “that looks like a Food Fair pylon But there’s no building there.” Turns out they tore down the store about six years ago but left the pylon (see “before” image from Google Street View). 44D...
- 09 Apr 2024 22:25
- Forum: History: USA Northeast
- Topic: Historical Information About ShopRite Locations (Past & Present)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4890
Re: Historical Information About ShopRite Locations (Past & Present)
I would guess that many chains had colonial prototypes—I’ve seen Acmes like this. The Pick-n-Pay chain in Cleveland had at least one free standing store like this. National Tea had a very few stores like this—I recall one in Alliance, Ohio. Safeway (particularly in the DC area) and Grand Union as w...
- 09 Apr 2024 22:18
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Unidentified former Safeway in west Fresno
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1886
Re: Unidentified former Safeway in west Fresno
Per my Fresno research from 25 years ago it was gone before 1970. I’m on vacation right now but I’ll see if I can pin that date down with newspaper sources when I have time.
- 02 Apr 2024 07:47
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: NEW: York PA
- Replies: 2
- Views: 307
Re: NEW: York PA
Thanks! Noted and will update.
- 29 Mar 2024 14:13
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: NEW: York PA
- Replies: 2
- Views: 307
NEW: York PA
For your Good Friday enjoyment: https://www.groceteria.com/place/pennsylvania/york/
Plenty of Acme, A&P, Giant-PA, and Food Fair!
Plenty of Acme, A&P, Giant-PA, and Food Fair!
- 14 Mar 2024 19:43
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Jewel in SoCal?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4091
Re: Jewel in SoCal?
Jewel Tea (the actual tea shops and delivery business) had SoCal stores early on and delivery through at least the 1970s, per some LA Times references, but no locations of the supermarket chain AFAIK. And Sav-on Drugs was rebranded as Osco for a time. I wonder if either of those things might have ca...
- 11 Mar 2024 08:22
- Forum: History: USA Northeast
- Topic: Historical Information About ShopRite Locations (Past & Present)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4890
Re: Historical Information About ShopRite Locations (Past & Present)
I did figure out how to save a Newspapers.com clipping as a JPG file and then upload as many as three of them as attachments to a post. However, because the JPG attachments could not be enlarged, I decided to delete those attachments. And unfortunately, posting a lot of those clippings as JPGs beco...
- 10 Mar 2024 19:49
- Forum: History: USA Northeast
- Topic: Historical Information About ShopRite Locations (Past & Present)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4890
Re: Historical Information About ShopRite Locations (Past & Present)
Although I cannot figure out how to post an image from Newspapers.com that allows one to zoom in, I think I figured out a way to share a link which allows one to view an image or article (and enlarge it) properly. Great that you provided these, but for the record the links only work for those who h...
- 10 Mar 2024 16:22
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: NEW: Columbus GA, 1925-2024
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4686
NEW: Columbus GA, 1925-2024
More interesting than I expected, and there were so very many independent chains, franchises, and co-ops.
https://www.groceteria.com/place/georgia/columbus/
https://www.groceteria.com/place/georgia/columbus/
- 05 Mar 2024 08:57
- Forum: History: USA Northeast
- Topic: Grand Union
- Replies: 76
- Views: 87022
Re: Grand Union
Looks to have been a Grand Union new build, circa 1998, to replace a store that burned down.
https://www.bizjournals.com/albany/stor ... ily34.html
- 02 Mar 2024 19:58
- Forum: History: USA Northwest/Rockies/Alaska
- Topic: NEW: Vancouver WA, 1928-2000
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4161
Re: NEW: Vancouver WA, 1928-2000
I may have misread the year on Google Streetview. I did a newspaper archive search on the address and references ended about 2007 as well, so maybe I over-assumed.