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- 11 Mar 2011 11:02
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Grocers in "real" malls - not strip malls
- Replies: 79
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Re: Grocers in "real" malls - not strip malls
Harundale Mall in Glen Burnie, MD opened in the late 50s (1958?) with a Food Fair as one of its anchors, along with a Hochschild-Kohn department store. The grocery store was located at one end with the store entrance just inside the mall's doors. Harundale was the Baltimore area's first enclosed mal...
- 11 Mar 2011 10:44
- Forum: History: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: Chveron Stations Operating as Standard Oil
- Replies: 27
- Views: 38956
Re: Chveron Stations Operating as Standard Oil
None that I ever saw. SOHIO usually branded their stations/dealers as "BORON" outside of Ohio.Super S wrote:Were any SOHIO (Standard Oil Of Ohio) stations signed as Standard instead of Sohio?
- 13 Jan 2011 23:24
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: Acme Markets closing another round of stores
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8538
Re: Acme Markets closing another round of stores
Mid 70s vintage? Interesting, that sounds late, around the same time as the scandal. I believe they had a problem with rodent droppings, not just infestation. But I would think those things would have gotten worse instead of better over the years. A&P had already began closing stores in the Phi...
- 13 Jan 2011 03:13
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: Acme Markets closing another round of stores
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8538
Re: Acme Markets closing another round of stores
Hi, Rat Infestation in the Warehouse did not help them, bur that was not the reason they closed. (It wasn!t uncommon for rodent, bug or Rats to infect stores or warehouses in that time period. What killed this market was small stores, a contract that was expensive and restrictive. Middle class flig...
- 09 Jan 2011 00:51
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: Acme Markets closing another round of stores
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8538
Re: Acme Markets closing another round of stores
Acme is closing another round of stores. Not many actual old ones are on the chopping block. See this page: http://acmestyleblog.blogspot.com/ Here are a few that will be missed: 1. Fallston, MD (on US Route 1): This was one of the last preserved 1970s Acmes, built in 1979. The ones in nearby Pike ...
- 06 Jan 2011 22:17
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Former IHOP locations
- Replies: 33
- Views: 39588
Re: Former IHOP locations
From the 1967 list for Baltimore, MD:
5600 Baltimore National Pike (Catonsville): Still standing, no longer an IHOP - now operating as Shirley's Diner.
6322 Reisterstown Road (Baltimore City): Still standing, use unknown
5600 Baltimore National Pike (Catonsville): Still standing, no longer an IHOP - now operating as Shirley's Diner.
6322 Reisterstown Road (Baltimore City): Still standing, use unknown
- 02 Jan 2011 23:56
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: 2 Supermarkets In One Shopping Center
- Replies: 68
- Views: 105275
Re: 2 Supermarkets In One Shopping Center
Ingleside Shopping Center in Catonsville, MD opened in 1957 with an Acme at one end and a Giant at the other. The Acme closed in 1982 when they pulled out of the Baltimore area (except for Harford County). For most of the ensuing years it was an Erol's TV/Video store until it was leased by Safeway i...
- 01 Jan 2011 01:41
- Forum: History: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: Picway Shoes
- Replies: 7
- Views: 19036
Re: Picway Shoes
Kobacker also operated the shoe departments in G.C. Murphy and Murphy Mart stores in the 1970s.
- 29 Dec 2010 01:12
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Chain Drugstores with Operating Lunch Counters
- Replies: 6
- Views: 15569
Re: Chain Drugstores with Operating Lunch Counters
Surprised to see that there are any large chains that still have lunch counters. When Rite Aid entered the Baltimore market in 1977 with the purchase of local chain Read Drug & Chemical ("Run right to Read's - Drugstores worthy of your confidence") the lunch counters were one of the fi...
- 27 Dec 2010 01:30
- Forum: History: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: Big Lots
- Replies: 30
- Views: 38638
Re: Big Lots
The Hagerstown, MD store is in part of a former Two Guys which has been subdivided. They just opened a store in Westview Shopping Center in Baltimore in space that was a former multiplex theatre.
- 18 Dec 2010 02:26
- Forum: History: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: Musicland/Defunct Record Store Chains Other Than Tower
- Replies: 39
- Views: 58385
Re: Musicland/Defunct Record Store Chains Other Than Tower
Anyone else remember Kemp Mill Records in the Washington/Baltimore area? Most single disc albums were $5.99. ("It's amazing!!! It's incredible!!! It's $5.99 and it's EVERY DAY at Kemp Mill Records.....)
- 15 Dec 2010 23:02
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: W. Bell and Co.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6533
Re: W. Bell and Co.
W. Bell also had 3 locations in Baltimore: Mt. Royal Ave. (downtown), Security Blvd. (Woodlawn) and York Road (Cockeysville). At one time one had to be buying in the name of a business to purchase from W. Bell, and they were pretty strict about it. IIRC it had something to do with the so-called &quo...
- 14 Dec 2010 23:08
- Forum: History: USA Northeast
- Topic: Safeway Stores in NY and PA
- Replies: 50
- Views: 35442
Re:
Safeway's Pennsylvania Division most likely included the South Central PA area - Harrisburg, Lancaster, and York. York is about 50 miles north of Baltimore, MD and still has former Safeway outlets. One I recall is now an "Ollie Bargain Outlet" on Queen St. Checking the Ollie website, that...
- 14 Dec 2010 23:00
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: Super Fresh in DC
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3622
Re: Super Fresh in DC
48th Street is tle last Super Fresh in the Washington area. The only othe store, Aspen Hill, MD was closed in A&P's last round of store closings.
- 14 Dec 2010 22:50
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: Penn Fruit outside Pennsylvania
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7762
Re: Penn Fruit outside Pennsylvania
Penn Fruit also had stores in Baltimore. I'm not sure exactly how many stores they had here, but at least 3 are still standing: Beechfield Ave. (now a church); Glen Burnie (for many years now the La Fontaine Bleu banquet facility - photos appear on this website) and Catonsville/Pike Park Plaza (now ...