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- 21 Jun 2006 00:48
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Market basket Pics from the 50's Southern Ca
- Replies: 18
- Views: 19164
Today the Market Basket is a Fallas Paredes mexican wear store. See, I'm mistaken. It's been several months since I was in town. How 'bout the Sears? BTW, do you know what's happened to some of the other establishments around there? The last time I was in the area before earlier this year was in th...
- 20 Jun 2006 20:29
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Market basket Pics from the 50's Southern Ca
- Replies: 18
- Views: 19164
- 24 May 2006 15:58
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Jewel T in Southern California
- Replies: 15
- Views: 13485
Jewel-T
Anyone remember these stores? Apparently a spin off of Jewel. They never carried produce, no meat, only a few dairy items, everything they sold was in boxes or (usually dented) cans, and when you checked out, you'd put everything in cardboard boxes-no shopping bags. Several locations in Southern Cal...
- 24 May 2006 15:36
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: New Uses for Grocery Stores
- Replies: 90
- Views: 108170
As a young kid, I remember a Safeway in West LA on Venice Blvd just east of Overland, between Keystone and Mentone. It was the type of building with the barrel roof (not a Marina, though) and a big tall sign, like the logo for the message board you see in the upper left. The Safeway closed and beca...
- 24 May 2006 04:29
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Sambo's Restaurant Locations in California
- Replies: 54
- Views: 49785
I loved Sambo's as a kid. Used to be one across the street from Disneyland, another on Brookhurst in Anaheim, later became a Spires (across the street from Howard's coffee shop, anyone remember that restaurant chain?). Unless the name were changed, it'll never be revived. How about Samba's? Someone ...
- 24 May 2006 04:18
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Food Barn/Liquor Barn
- Replies: 16
- Views: 12533
- 23 May 2006 17:48
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Treasury Department Stores
- Replies: 34
- Views: 51414
Treasury Department Stores
Anyone remember this disocunt store? My family used to drive from L.A. to the one in Buena Park. One day we went, the store was all boarded up. The last one was going out of business in Riverside I believe, and I remember that they were just about empty except for the few shelves in front. I couldn'...
- 23 May 2006 17:28
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Weirdest combination of grocery store and other business?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 18157
Re: Weirdest combination of grocery store and other business
How about a supermarket and casino? I'm used to seeing slot machines in the front of markets in Las Vegas, but I was at a Smith's that had a walled off section and the word "casino" above" with about 30 or so slots and an attendant sitting in front, near a pot of coffee to keep the ga...
- 23 May 2006 17:04
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Food Barn/Liquor Barn
- Replies: 16
- Views: 12533
Food Barn/Liquor Barn
As a kid I thought these were odd names for stores, they seemed to be coming out of nowhere in Southern California in the early 80's. The earliest reference of Liquor Barn I can find is from 1979 (never was in one of course), and found it interesting that the same guy who started Liquor Barn for Saf...
- 23 May 2006 16:48
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Phar-Mor
- Replies: 25
- Views: 38795
Phar-Mor. The Youngstown, OH based drug superstore chain that folded a few years back? In California? They never got out of the Midwest, that I'm aware of. We had one in Victorville, CA...opened for less than a year. Really cool place unlike any other drug store I'd ever seen. They had a touch scre...