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I recognized that design right away. At one time we had Food Fair stores in NE PA. One former Food Fair in Kingston Pa is now a Food Town.It still has that design but they filled in alot of the windows with wall.

... Giant more than Safeway. Finast and later Stop & Shop, Star, Food Mart and others are far greater in the imaginations of New Englanders. ... various Atlanta chains). A&P probably wouldn't be in Philly if Food Fair had survived. For whatever reason, fresh food operations in the Southeast ...

The Deli/Seafood departments of Food Fair in Florida were modeled after successful counterparts in the northeast. At the age of 15 (1968) I ...

... bakeries in the 1960's and didn't really push delis until the 1970's. Food Fair/Pantry Pride and Grand Union had delis in South Florida and those Publix locations close ...

Food Fair had established Delis in the N.E. AND the S.E. as early as the 1940's. In Florida, Fredrick's had Delis even before Food Fair. Publix followed Food Fair's lead, then Winn Dixie.

BTW, same goes with Service Seafood.

... superstores. Some supermarket chains had these in the 1950s. The Fisher Foods chain in Cleveland was one example of this--their larger stores from ... you count Publix and the Florida outposts of Northern chains like Food Fair.

Corti had a market in the Arden Fair Mall adjacent to a 60's era "Food Circus" and a T-Drugs. I believe the entire building was demolished and a Max's Opera Cafe and ...

I totally understand and agree with you. As it goes with the giant Food Fair company, established in 1900. So powerful, so quickly and gone (1991) without a trace (except for an invisible exisitence inside Revlon Cosmetics).

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... you can see a Acme on one end. A W.T. Grant and what looks to be a Food Fair on the far right. This looks like a decent sized center, and I don't remember seeing anything ...

... blue color is still the same. I did find the Elizabeth location on The Food Fair location list on this web site. Inside you can still tell where the meat department was ...

Steve Landry wrote:From the photo the square footage looks huge for the time (50,000 sqft?).

Doesn't look quite that big to me. I'm guessing maybe 25K, tops. Note that the wing is actually a dry cleaner's store and not part of the Food Fair.

It's a quite beautiful store, though. Nice photo too.

... the photo the square footage looks huge for the time (50,000 sqft?). Food Fair often hired famous architects to design experimental or "new" formats for their ...

... This is probably from the late 50's. I don't recognize this style Food Fair building without the tower. Was this common? http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a175/dcgrocery/Philadelphia%20Acme%20and%20others/Food%20Fair/?action=view&current=FoodFair1.jpg ...

Merchants Green Stamps - Food Fair - nationally, though some divisions had S&H

I remember the former Best on Fairview (which was Great Western before Best took over). That makes me think that ... and renamed them Osco Drug. When that happened, Buttrey-Osco was renamed Buttrey Food and Drug, and Buttrey installed new signs which were up for only a year or two ...