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- 17 Nov 2006 00:29
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Chains Expanding Far From Their Home Turf
- Replies: 24
- Views: 18387
- 14 Nov 2006 18:42
- Forum: History: USA Midwest/Plains
- Topic: Safeway in Missouri and Environs
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6160
- 13 Nov 2006 16:30
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Stouffer's Restaurants
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16553
- 12 Nov 2006 00:39
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Woolworth's
- Replies: 24
- Views: 19070
- 12 Nov 2006 00:31
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Stouffer's Restaurants
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16553
Stoiuffer got out of the restaurant business in phases during the late 70s/early 80s. First they closed the restaurants with the Stouffer name. Then they closed the boutique chains that had been established in the 70s, like the Cheese Cellar. The restaurants started out as lunch counters and then we...
- 12 Nov 2006 00:21
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: 1959 Chain Store Age piece on Marina Safeway
- Replies: 15
- Views: 22633
- 12 Nov 2006 00:10
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: QFI
- Replies: 18
- Views: 15980
- 09 Nov 2006 10:45
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Any experience with historical societies?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2961
- 04 Nov 2006 13:46
- Forum: History: USA Midwest/Plains
- Topic: Preston-Safeway
- Replies: 11
- Views: 15111
My recollection is that they went into Chapter 11 several years ago. By then, all they had were the Indy stores and I thought those were ultimately liquidated. I was surpised to see that they still had a handful of stores when I was in Indy a couple weeks ago--perhaps, some store managers found inve...
- 04 Nov 2006 01:39
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Rink's
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9677
I seem to recall that the supermarkets were leased departments run by Kantor Bros, which was acquired in the late 60s by Fisher Foods of Cleveland, operator of the Fazio's chain in NE Ohio. What happened to the Rink's super market after Gray Drug sold the stores around 1980, I think)? Cook United ra...
- 04 Nov 2006 01:35
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: LA Cafeterias
- Replies: 23
- Views: 16408
Cafeterias used to be common in other places: New York City and in smaller cities in the Midwest--places like Indianapolis and its satellite cities come to mind. In New York, you could find them in places like the Upper West Side, back in the 60s---I remmebre from visiting a sa little kid. By the ti...
- 04 Nov 2006 01:21
- Forum: History: Shopping Centers
- Topic: Rockville Mall (MD) / Downtown Malls
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15610
Kann's was part of that now gone species of stores that were simply low end department stores. They usually carried a full line of merchandise, but at the low end--although some didn't have furniture or appliances. Bailey's in Cleveland, Tiedtke's in Toldeo, the Fifth Street Store in LA, and Goldbla...
- 03 Nov 2006 13:07
- Forum: History: Shopping Centers
- Topic: Rockville Mall (MD) / Downtown Malls
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15610
The mall in Pasadena got off to a good start, but then there was a grizzly murder in the parking garage and nothing was the same after that. Malls seem very prone to decline once crime makes it into the media. For years, malls had plenty of crime--even violent crime, but the operators kept it out of...
- 03 Nov 2006 12:57
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Former Lucky in Monrovia (CA)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4183
- 02 Nov 2006 23:15
- Forum: History: Shopping Centers
- Topic: Rockville Mall (MD) / Downtown Malls
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15610