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by TheStranger
03 Oct 2006 15:22
Forum: History: USA California
Topic: My new Peninsula Stores site is now up
Replies: 12
Views: 8713

Ah, what was the address number for this intersection? When I checked the list in the SF section, I think it was 4820 3rd but that gave me the Oakdale intersection. It's 6190 Third. The store at 4820 was an older one dating from the early 1930s to the mid 1950s. Oh okay, I didn't originally see tha...
by TheStranger
03 Oct 2006 14:53
Forum: History: USA California
Topic: My new Peninsula Stores site is now up
Replies: 12
Views: 8713

Better photo, from Live Local: http://groceteria.com/forboard/purity3rd.jpg It's at the corner of 3rd and Paul. I believe the church building (closest to the corner) was the original Siri's/Purity, but it's been about five years since I've been by there, so I don't really recall the specifics of th...
by TheStranger
03 Oct 2006 02:13
Forum: History: USA California
Topic: My new Peninsula Stores site is now up
Replies: 12
Views: 8713

Groceteria wrote: The former Purity on Third Street (now a church) was also a Siri's to begin with
Just did a maps.google.com look at that spot, is it exactly where the arrow is pointing?

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by TheStranger
02 Oct 2006 21:19
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: DC area Safeway and Giant?
Replies: 10
Views: 7425

I'm thinking where you have the #2 is the Giant, and right to the right of it is the expanded safeway. if you look closely at the roof of the safeway, its lighter and darker and looks like the center part is where the store was expanded out. In fact, looking at it closer on Google Maps, the #1 you ...
by TheStranger
02 Oct 2006 21:09
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: DC area Safeway and Giant?
Replies: 10
Views: 7425

Here's an overhead view of the area from Google Maps: It appears the one I've labeled #1 is the ex-Giant/Grand Union, and #2 is the Safeway. EDIT: See Jeff's correction below on my labeling. Thanks Jeff! :) http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/8618/columbiardoo1.jpg According to the Euphemistic Safeway ...
by TheStranger
02 Oct 2006 18:24
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: New Uses for Grocery Stores
Replies: 90
Views: 103154

Several in NorCal come to mind immediately, some of which I have photographed at my site... - The former Safeway at Westborough Square in S. San Francisco, a 1970s-era store (with the circle S signs!) closed in 1997, and has since become a Pet Club. - Former Brentwood at Sunshine Center in SSF is no...
by TheStranger
02 Oct 2006 10:31
Forum: History: USA California
Topic: Sacramento: Stop-n-Shop
Replies: 10
Views: 7475

I think Paper or Plastic was just referring, as he said, to a UCD medical building, not to the entire hospital. UCD has clinics and other buildings scattered all over the region. And I think I remember there being a medical complex in that area now as well. Now that you mention it...that makes sens...
by TheStranger
02 Oct 2006 08:47
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Safeway's "divested" markets from 1986
Replies: 48
Views: 278930

Old Safeway sign at a church in Kansas City. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarahbelle1/28591675/ http://static.flickr.com/23/28591675_f987d673fc.jpg Angled overhead shot showing a Safeway that became Homeland in Seminole, OK. http://www.flickr.com/photos/saintseminole/235532903/ --- Some Vons stores ...
by TheStranger
02 Oct 2006 08:22
Forum: History: Canada
Topic: Canada Safeways
Replies: 53
Views: 69940

Another shot of what I think is the Main Street marina in Winnipeg: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kcamp/27933803/ Bizarre looking gable: http://www.flickr.com/photos/trachalio/204567/ I think this is what happened to said bizarre looking gable... http://www.flickr.com/photos/magenta/10688237/ http://...
by TheStranger
02 Oct 2006 08:08
Forum: History: USA Northwest/Rockies/Alaska
Topic: Classic Bellevue Safeway to be Demolished
Replies: 8
Views: 7486

I've found a few photos of this Bellevue store in particular and posted it in a thread on Northwest Safeway locations: http://www.groceteria.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=641 The 410 Bellevue address still shows up on the store locator though. One of the photos I found for that thread, a store in Eastga...
by TheStranger
02 Oct 2006 06:46
Forum: History: USA California
Topic: Sacramento: Stop-n-Shop
Replies: 10
Views: 7475

my guess is that building in the back is the old county hospital. That area has been all reconstructed and the site now has a UCD medical building on it. Actually, the UCD medical center is out at the former fairgrounds at Broadway and Stockton Boulevard, not particularly close to the L Street area.
by TheStranger
02 Oct 2006 06:42
Forum: History: Department Store Chains
Topic: Best Products
Replies: 42
Views: 33689

Speaking of Service Merchandise and BEST, South San Francisco had one of each - BEST at Gellert Square, and Service Merchandise in the old White Front space at Spruce/El Camino. The Service Merchandise closed around 2000 and Safeway wanted to expand its store into the vacant space, but Bally's Total...
by TheStranger
02 Oct 2006 06:39
Forum: History: Shopping Centers
Topic: Fashion Island, San Mateo/Foster City
Replies: 22
Views: 34928

Hello--new member here-- I was interested in whether Fashion Island Boulevard had kept the name. I had not been down 101 for a while, and tonight I noticed that the exit signs did indeed say, "Fashion Island Boulevard." But I am sure that they changed the name after the demise of the mall...
by TheStranger
02 Oct 2006 02:09
Forum: History: USA Northwest/Rockies/Alaska
Topic: Northwest Safeways
Replies: 67
Views: 60033

I think this photo is of the same Spokane store shown earlier: http://remi1000.com/index.php?todo=readcomments&comment=694 Looks like Storewanderer actually posted it in his Spokane thread... --- Interior of the closed store on Broadway in Seattle. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffsharman/149960...
by TheStranger
02 Oct 2006 01:05
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Grocers in "real" malls - not strip malls
Replies: 79
Views: 80710

Apparently, the Sherwood Park Mall in Sherwood Park, AB has a Safeway: http://www.kalynacountry.com/shopping.htm --- Closer to home, I can think of two sites in the Peninsula that had in-mall supermarkets: the former Petrini's (now a Borders Books) at Stonestown in SF, and the Longs Drugs that was a...