Stumbled upon this former Marina style Safeway in a Los Alamos, NM shopping center. The exterior has been heavily modified, but the interior is fairly intact except for the glue-lams painted white. It's now Metzger's Hardware Store.
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Marina style former Safeway in Los Alamos, NM
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Re: Marina style former Safeway in Los Alamos, NM
Whoa, blast from the past there. I spent most of the first sixteen years of my life in Los Alamos (from roughly 1980-1994) and don't remember this place as being anything besides Metzger's Hardware (it was a True Value when I lived there though.) There was a Safeway in Los Alamos in the Mari-Mac Shopping Center a few blocks away for a number of years until Safeway left the area, at which point that store became a Furrs Grocery (a mostly Texas-based chain which is now defunct.) My Mom got a leg injury from a slip-and-fall in that store, so we hardly ever shopped there, preferring the Smith's in White Rock instead. Eventually that store became a Smith's also, and as far as I know, it's now the only grocery store in Los Alamos (the other one, an independent store called Ed's Food Market, closed a few years ago. Walmart has been trying to get into LA for years now, but hasn't made it yet.)
As for the exterior, If I had to guess I'd say that part happened sometime in the late Eighties when they added the overhangs to the walkways for the whole shopping center.
As for the exterior, If I had to guess I'd say that part happened sometime in the late Eighties when they added the overhangs to the walkways for the whole shopping center.
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