More new location lists for you amusement:
Tag: DC
Yes, I know it’s been a year. And yes, I know that I haven’t been answering email and that there have been problems with the Message Board. I have had personal issues and other things that have kept me extremely busy and I apologize.
But here are lots of new updates:
- Washington DC: New address spreadsheet.
- Asheville NC: Updated address spreadsheet.
- Fayetteville NC: Updated address spreadsheet.
- Gastonia NC: Updated address spreadsheet.
- Tri-Cities TN/VA: New section.
- Abilene TX: New address spreadsheet.
- Flagstaff AZ: New address spreadsheet.
228 East Seventh Street SE, Washington DC (1987, Washington Post).
Opened in 1940, this Safeway store at 228 Seventh Street SE in Washington DC managed to hang on until 1986. It was still profitable until the end; the need for expensive renovations was cited as the reason for its closing. The surrounding neighborhood was not happy about the closing and the city council tried unsuccessfully to delay it through legislation.
It’s a classic 1940s store, modernized probably in the mid 1960s. The Noe Valley store in San Francisco, closed in the mid 1970s and pictured below, was probably a fairly similar renovation. I’d love to have seen the interiors of these stores. It’s amazing they lasted as long as they did.
The SF location, by the way, managed to hang on for another fifteen years as a Bell Market after Safeway moved out. It’s now an unrecognizable Walgreens. I don’t know the fate of the DC store.
1333 Castro Street, San Francisco (1973, The Streets of San Francisco).
Just returned from a brief road trip in the environs of Washington, Baltimore, and Wilmington DE, and here are a few photos for your amusement. This wasn’t really a “research” trip, so I didn’t come back with too much.
