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- 08 Feb 2009 11:26
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Thrifty Junior Drug Stores
- Replies: 17
- Views: 24222
Re: Thrifty Junior Drug Stores
Chad, see if you can find anything about an Albertsons that opened on Imperial Hwy at Rose Dr. Its now a Stater Bros. In that small center, there is a tiny CVS that once had to have been a Sav-on Express. Question is, when did the center open? I beleive it had to have had opened after or about the ...
- 04 Feb 2009 11:47
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Thrifty Junior Drug Stores
- Replies: 17
- Views: 24222
Re: Thrifty Junior Drug Stores
According to a 1986 Times article there were 27 Thrifty Jr stores. This was when Pacific Lighting (parent of Socal Gas Company) bought the chain. Later that year Thrifty bought Drug King (15 stores) and Guild Drugs (13 stores) and converted most of them into Thrifty Jr. There were also a few Thrifty...
- 04 Feb 2009 11:28
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Original Jack in the Box sites
- Replies: 33
- Views: 59229
Re: Original Jack in the Box sites
Apparently in the 80's after getting rid of the "clown", the company changed some of its stores to "Monterey Jack's". I don't remember that here in CA. It didn't work out well and they changed them back by 1986. That's all I can find about it. Monterey Jack's was test marketed w...
- 19 Jan 2009 23:16
- Forum: History: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: Circuit City
- Replies: 43
- Views: 54086
Re: Circuit City to Liquidate remaining 500 stores.
Just a reminder to keep the history of the chain as the topic of conversation. Here in Socal, many of the first Circuit City stores were former Akron stores. The Pasadena, West LA (on Sepulveda and National, now closed) and Granada Hills stores come to mind as former Akrons. The Granada Hills store,...
- 16 Jan 2009 11:37
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Mystery ex-grocery store in La Puente
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3045
Re: Mystery ex-grocery store in La Puente
A 1961 LA Times ad for refers to it as Schaubs Market. It had a Dexter Elliot home appliances department selling Maytag appliances and Curtis Mathes TVs. In 1973 it was a Greatway Food Store, a chain of 10 stores mostly in Whittier and the SGV.
- 14 Jan 2009 14:51
- Forum: History: Shopping Centers
- Topic: Garfield Theater-turned shopping center, Alhambra
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13751
Re: Garfield Theater-turned shopping center, Alhambra
You can see the original building in this image: http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater1/00014406.jpg. The marquee is over the original theater lobby. Based on this view http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=ppctcs54pt4h&style=b&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&sce...
- 14 Jan 2009 14:23
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Rancho Cucamonga chain grocer history
- Replies: 16
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Re: Rancho Cucamonga chain grocer history
I can't tell by the aerial view what it is today, but I'm pretty sure there was an Alpha Beta at the northwest corner of Base Line and Archibald. The shopping center at 19th and Carnelian, where the Hannam is now, opened in 1980. The original anchor tenants were Alpha Beta and Coast to Coast Home Im...
- 12 Jan 2009 14:09
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Marie Callender's
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9527
Re: Marie Callender's
Right. I didn't catch the "died Wednesday" part in the first sentence of the obit. I thought it was weird that it would take so long to report. But, still, dying that long after the fall must have led to a miserable last part of his life.
- 11 Jan 2009 20:05
- Forum: History: Shopping Centers
- Topic: Garfield Theater-turned shopping center, Alhambra
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13751
Re: Garfield Theater-turned shopping center, Alhambra
I'm very certain that is the original building where the stores are located today. Whenever I drive by, I always picture the old "Garfield Theater" rooftop sign. If you drive by it, you can see that it is an old building. The storefronts are original. The parking lot in back is where the ...
- 11 Jan 2009 17:44
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Market Basket Locations
- Replies: 24
- Views: 18731
Re: Market Basket Locations
Would Kroger someday bring back the Market Basket name? Yucaipa licensed the Market Basket name from Kroger and brought it back around 1990 with the intent of creating a Pavilions-type upper-scale chain-within-a-chain, and they did change the name of some Boys stores. The upscale conversion plan ne...
- 11 Jan 2009 17:35
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Marie Callender's
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9527
Marie Callender's
Marie Callender's son Don died in 2007 and the obituary was run today in the LA Times. I guess the news traveled slowly. Here are a few excerpts from the obit which can be found at http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-callender11-2009jan11,0,226573.story None of this is probably...
- 09 Jan 2009 22:03
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Gottschalks
- Replies: 61
- Views: 37443
Re: Gottschalks
The San Bernardino Gottschalks is one of a few that is actually three levels. That's a former May Company. May Co had boarded up the entire lower level for many years and I seem to remember that Sportmart took over part of the space with an entrance out to the parking lot on the south side. The old...
- 02 Jan 2009 12:26
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Disappearing Sizzlers in your area
- Replies: 33
- Views: 29904
Re: Disappearing Sizzlers in your area
At their peak in 1978 there were over 600 Sizzlers. They closed 130 stores in their 1997 bankruptcy, including most of their midwest and northeast stores. As of 2005 there were 226 US stores, 145 of which were in California. Their first store was in Culver City in 1958, I'm guessing it was the one a...
- 02 Jan 2009 12:14
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Bob's Big Boy former L.A. locations
- Replies: 47
- Views: 62194
Re: Bob's Big Boy former L.A. locations
The '89 date explains why Bob's quality seemed to decline after that. I could tell something had changed about Big Boy in the early 90's, but I had no idea Marriott had sold them off already. In doing further research, REG made the deal with Marriott in January of 1991 and the deal closed in Februa...
- 01 Jan 2009 10:01
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Vintage Supermarkets in Movies and TV (Old Ones Only Please)
- Replies: 178
- Views: 164512
Re: Supermarkets in the Movies and TV
Werent they using the Oval with curisve lettering before the newer, non-cursive oval logo? Yes: http://homepage.mac.com/runchadrun/groceteria/oldralphsoval.jpg It was replaced with the modernized oval sometime in the late 80s, and the oval was more or less dropped altogehter in the last few years. ...