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by Groceteria
05 Mar 2007 22:36
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: Roanoke VA
Replies: 10
Views: 9663

Harris-Teeter may have had stores in Roanoke. A friend of mine was hired to become a manager for Harris Teeter and was to relocate to Roanoke when the company decided to send him to the Greensboro area instead. I was told that Harris Teeter pulled out of Roanoke and Kroger took over the Roanoke HT ...
by Groceteria
05 Mar 2007 22:29
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: 3215 Williamson Road NW, Roanoke VA
Replies: 17
Views: 19410

Safeway seems like a likelier bet or perhaps Big Star, although they often used a tile front. Thanks. It really doesn't read like most Safeway or Big Star prototypes I've seen from the era either, and I'm not sure if Safeway was ever quite this far west in Virginia (anyone?). I guess it could be on...
by Groceteria
05 Mar 2007 12:12
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: Roanoke VA
Replies: 10
Views: 9663

Roanoke VA

http://www.groceteria.com/journal/graphics7/030507-mick.jpg Hi all. Any thoughts on the history of this rather fascinating southern Virginia city? I've made several trips there since moving to Winston-Salem, and I think it's going to be my next "feature" city on the site. I maay also inco...
by Groceteria
05 Mar 2007 12:07
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: 3215 Williamson Road NW, Roanoke VA
Replies: 17
Views: 19410

3215 Williamson Road NW, Roanoke VA

http://groceteria.com/forboard/williamson2.jpg There are at least two more stores just like this around Roanoke as well. One in downtown Salem is an antique mall, while one at 1310 Grandin Rd SW is now a natural foods co-op. Based on the "stepped" roof line, they look like former A&Ps...
by Groceteria
05 Mar 2007 11:21
Forum: History: USA Midwest/Plains
Topic: Kroger closing 1958 store in Indiana
Replies: 7
Views: 6780

<<Moved to Specific Locations/Commercial Archaeology.>>
by Groceteria
05 Mar 2007 10:53
Forum: History: USA California
Topic: CompUSA Culver City
Replies: 10
Views: 5706

Deleted off-topic posts about CompUSA's current operations. However, please feel free to continue discussions about the supermarket history of this location.
by Groceteria
02 Mar 2007 12:41
Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
Topic: Safeway Super S Locations
Replies: 7
Views: 5234

Does anybody remember a drugstore called Super S by Safeway. I remember going to a Super S in Banning Ca., and when was Super S bought by Thrifty's ? There are dozens of posts about Safeway Super S on the forum including several in this very thread. If you'll do a search, you'll find plenty of info...
by Groceteria
02 Mar 2007 12:31
Forum: History: USA Midwest/Plains
Topic: Kroger closing 1958 store in Indiana
Replies: 7
Views: 6780

That's the store I featured on my front page a few months back:

http://www.groceteria.com/journal/2006/10.html#103006
by Groceteria
01 Mar 2007 18:22
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Chains with two stores very close to each other
Replies: 30
Views: 20353

2. In the 1930s, Greenville, Michigan had two A&P's a block apart. Actually, that was fairly common in the 1930s. Most older chains hit their peak in terms of numbers of stores between 1929 and 1935, which is when they started consolidating into supermarkets. Since the stores served a primarily...
by Groceteria
26 Feb 2007 11:46
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Chains with two stores very close to each other
Replies: 30
Views: 20353

I've split this discussion off from a different topic. Please (as always) try to keep it focused on history leading to the situation rather than just the current status of the stores. Thanks.
by Groceteria
26 Feb 2007 11:44
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: 2 Supermarkets In One Shopping Center
Replies: 68
Views: 97120

I've moved the discussion of multiple stores of the same chain very close to each other (but not necessarily in the same center) into a separate topic, since that's a radically different issue than the one in the current topic:

http://www.groceteria.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=1169
by Groceteria
23 Feb 2007 19:17
Forum: History: USA California
Topic: Former Alpha Beta Riverside, CA
Replies: 3
Views: 4046

For clarification, American Stores was required to divest most Alpha Beta stores in 1990, all of them Southern California locations, as a result of its 1988 acquisition of Lucky Stores. Burkle's entity bought the majority of these stores, but some were sold to other operators, and American was allow...
by Groceteria
22 Feb 2007 14:39
Forum: History: USA California
Topic: McDaniel's Markets in Socal
Replies: 17
Views: 15709

Postcard view of a McDaniel's market in Oxnard that I snagged from an eBay listing a couple of years ago:

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by Groceteria
20 Feb 2007 12:30
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: 2 Supermarkets In One Shopping Center
Replies: 68
Views: 97120

At Valley Plaza in North Hollywood there's a Smart & Final (former Thriftimart) near a Ralphs (former Hughes). I'm looking at that part of the book now, and the 1949 site plan shows them as part of the same development. I think the other center was more confined to the environs of May Co. store...
by Groceteria
20 Feb 2007 11:08
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: 2 Supermarkets In One Shopping Center
Replies: 68
Views: 97120

Focusing this toward history (please), the practice of two supermarkets in one shopping center was extremely common until the early 1970s in most of the country, albeit less so on the west coast than in the south and midwest. In fact, it was almost a standard practice for anything above the smallest...