Groceteria.com

Hi all.

If we could keep this focused on Tower's history rather than on the current competition or on the disposition of individual locations, that would be great.

Thanks,
David

http://www.groceteria.com/lucky/index.html : Lucky also operated a chain of department stores called Gemco throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Memco (a Gemco clone on the east coast which was liquidated in 1983), Hancock Fabrics, and Grand Auto Supply at various periods during the 1970s. In reaction to...

dth1971 wrote:I thought the other KFC chain was Gino's!

Gino's was just a KFC franchisee, I believe.

It was originally a Lucky, although I don't know when it opened. Save-Mart took it over in July 1997 when Lucky finally pulled out of the Central Valley altogether. Save-Mart acquired a total of ten stores in Modesto, Turlock, Stockton, Manteca, Atwater, and Merced at this time.

Jeff wrote:Which locations were former Tmarts?

I have no idea on specifics, but I remember looking at the site a year or two back and seeing numerous stores with obvious remnants of big T signs, etc.

runchadrun wrote:There's a history of Smart & Final at http://www.smartandfinal.com/history.html

FYI, the location search on their site also features photos of most locations, and some are very obvious former Thriftimarts:

http://www.smartandfinal.com/locations.aspx

Daniel wrote:Somehow Save Mart got ahold of it and remodeled it into their "non-look".

Hehe. I think that's the best way I've ever heard it described...

Steve Landry wrote:A bit verbose here, I could go on with loads of details....but I wont ;)

Actually, we'd all probably love it if you would :)

Were these Rock Hill and Painesville malls just called "Downtown Mall"? I'd like to know the specific mall name, as I'm working on a list of malls in the US. A quick thirty seconds on Google provided the following info from this page : In 1977 Rock Hill became one of the hundreds of citie...

I would like to know more about the downtown malls in Rock Hill and Painesville. When did they open? Did they have anchor stores? Are they still standing? Heck, what were the malls' NAMES? As I said about five posts up, Rock Hill was torn down several years ago. Again, it was not so a much a mall b...

terryinokc wrote:Don't know if Safeway bought the companies/manufacturers, or if they were somehow related to Safeway all along.

Could be that Safeway was also acting as supplier to other chains. I vaguely remember reading somewhere that A&P did some of that with its house brands on a limited basis.

surfingdude wrote:Spencer's Morro Bay was a Young's Giant Foods originally.

Thanks. Would that be the same Young's that operated in Bakersfield?

I have moved these posts and started a new thread since the developing discussion was (a) not about the New York Food Basket chain, which was the original topic, and (b) was starting to be about specific locations rather than general information on the chain. I promise to be everyone's best friend i...

Dean wrote: From the pix that was posted today on the main page...POSSIBLY a CORONET dime store

Maybe, but it seems a good bit bigger than the average Coronet store.

Any pictures of the "FAD" store? Was it a full service store or was it limited? I can't find that photo online anymore. Did you click on the photo slideshow on the page listed above? There is a picture of a FAD store. I have no idea if it's the one you saw before, but it's the only one th...