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I've been there a ton of times, both when it was a Safeway and under it's current incarnation as Seamark. The last time I visited was at the beginning of last May and I'll probably be there again around the first of May this year. I'm not the best judge of whether or not it retains it's original &qu...

The downtown Richmond Miller & Rhoads Tea Room was on the fifth floor, and one of the store elevators was a dedicated "Tea Room Express" - that elevator was manual and had it's own operator until the store closed. To me, that's an intersting subject in and of itself - manually operated...

...The Belk store in downtown Greensboro had no restaurant, but it did have a pass-through to the adjacent S&W Cafeteria. Both closed about 1975. I have a sneaking suspicion that the Belk (or Leggett) store in Roanoke VA may have had a similar set-up with its adjacent S&W. The Miller & ...

--Hyattsville, MD (Sargent & Riggs Road) --Baltimore (Rt. 40, but I'm sure there were others) --Suitland?, MD (across from Andrews AFB) --Fairfax? Annandale?, VA (Little River Turnpike & Braddock Road) --Reston, VA (Baron Cameron & Reston Avenues) I've found that North Carolina usually s...

The way that Kmarts were developed makes it hard to determine if some were really located in "shopping centers" at all. I know that some of the survivng Kmarts I'm familiar with have expanded into what was separate supermarket space or the adjacent space is vacant and apparently used for s...

As suggested, I posted on the "Specific Locations" forum information on the two Memco locations in Richmond - both of which had grocery departments operated by Farm Fresh.

There were two Memcos in Richmond, one on Midlothian Turnpike and one on West Broad Street (then called Broad Street Road). Both were bought from Wards Corporation (now Circuit City) in 1975. Wards had operated The Carousel discount stores at the locations; the Midlothian Pike store being opened in ...

In some recent research, I uncovered that every Kmart in Greensboro NC through about 1980 was considered to be part of a "Kmart Plaza", from the standalone 1967 store with an attached Kmart Foods, to a 1976 strip center with a few other adjacent stores including a (non-Kmart) supermarket....

Very nice photos. Thanks. Cool. Now I have a better idea of what the Barracks Road Colonial looked like when it opened here in Charlottesville. It's a Kroger now, just renovated. I think you mentioned this store in another thread as well. Was it one of the stores Kroger took over from Harris Teeter...

runchadrun wrote:Here is a artist's rendering of the Oxnard store:
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics49/00044367.jpg

I see that they ended up painting the pylon beige rather than the plaid shown in the rendering. Probably had problems finding plaid paint. :)

I somehow doubt that there are quite as many references to supermarkets in popular music as there are in the movies and television, but I thought it might make for an interesting topic. I'll start off with "Billy the Mountain" by The Mothers of Invention ("Just Another Band from L.A.&...

I've always liked old stuff. I don't really have a "first" store, because, really, there weren't that many "old" supermarkets when I was growing up, when compared with the other "old stuff" around town. Supermarkets were only 20-30 years old at most, and other things in...

Here's a link to the Salem real estate data:
http://salem.gisbrowser.com/viewer.htm

Remember that Salem and Roanoke are independent cities with their own assessment data - and Roanoke County is different as well.

The assessment property card says that the building was constructed in 1948.

I'm pretty sure Safeway wasn't in Roanoke.

...Norfolk's a really beautiful city with a nice layer of "grit". I think it will be an interesting study because it's a different type of city physically from most of those farther south: more industrial and classically "old urban" in appearance. I think its 1930s and 1940s str...