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The Oakland Tribune of December 6, 1969 ran an advertisement for the businesses of the MacArthur/Broadway Center, apparently to attract pre-Christmas shoppers. Here are some of the businesses mentioned: (1) Woolworth (2) Top Drawer – Fine Men’s Wear: “Lay-A-Way His Christmas Gift NOW!” (3) Grand Wig...

The Dec. 3, 2009 edition of the Pleasant Hill-Martinez Record (a weekly insert to the Contra Costa Times ) says that Safeway may soon change its location in northern Pleasant Hill in central Contra Costa County. The article "Recession hampers revitalization" by Lisa P. White says a Safeway...

Premier of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev was scheduled to tour an "American supermarket" when he visited San Francisco, Calif. in 1959. However, Khrushchev decided instead to deviate from his schedule and visit with ILWU union workers, including its leader Harry Bridges. Does anybody ...

Another Alpha Beta "Savings Don't Stop! ... Tell A Friend" television commercial from the early 1980s has been posted on YouTube. This one promotes a "fall pork festival":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL8wmXa2Xls

The Del Norte Triplicate newspaper microfilm from 1960 sheds light on the state of the grocery business at California's northwest corner. In December 1960, the big news was that a "marina"-style Safeway store was preparing to open in Crescent City on 3rd street between K and L. I believe t...

Someone has posted another Alpha Beta television commercial on YouTube - from the "Savings Don't Stop!" campaign. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNCUY-F98vk

Does anyone know the history of the Safeway store located at 3747 Grand Avenue in Oakland, Calif. (near Piedmont)? It is one of the few remaining Safeway stores that I know of that has its main entrance onto a city sidewalk instead of a parking lot. This leads me to believe that this is one of Safew...

See the following link for some discussion about the 1930s Andrew Williams shopping center and the M/B Center that replaced it in the mid-1960s: http://www.groceteria.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=1257&p=7679 I recall seeing a photo (not high quality) of the Andrew Williams shopping center ...

The San Francisco Chronicle 's SFGate site reports that a new architect, Ken Lowney, has been hired for the proposed new Safeway at College & Claremont in Oakland, Calif. (replacing the existing marina-style store): http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ontheblock/detail?blogid=58&entry_id=37188

The Los Angeles Times edition of March 14, 2009 reported that the Robinson's-May department store building at 9900 Wilshire Blvd. in Beverly Hills, Calif. is endangered. It is across Wilshire Blvd. from the Beverly Hilton. A hotel and condominium complex is planned for the site, requiring demolition...

Does anyone remember the last time you could buy a supermarket item for just one cent? As late as 1979, I remember buying penny gum balls from a dispenser in the front of the Lucky supermarket on Pacific Avenue in Livermore, Calif. (not long before it closed in March 1980). They were small gum balls...

The Post newspaper (city?) of October 11, 1967 reported that the largest store in the Pay Less store chain would soon open at 3975 Alemany Boulevard in San Francisco. The article reported that the 109,000 square-foot store was built on an eight acre site that formerly was the California Evergreen Nu...

I found a reference in the Oakland Tribune of October 2, 1966 to an "International Super Store" that was soon to open at the Rockridge Center at 5100 Broadway in Oakland.

Pleasanton, Calif. is perhaps best known as the headquarters of supermarket chain Safeway, Inc. It currently has eight grocery stores: (1) Lucky - 1 location (that was a "Lucky," then an "Albertson's," then a "Lucky" once again) (2) Safeway - 1 location (opened Dec. 199...

The Livermore, Calif. TG&Y was located in the Alpha Beta shopping center on Railroad Avenue. I believe that it opened around the same time as the Alpha Beta, which opened in 1968 and closed in 1984. The Livermore TG&Y next became a J.J. Newberry. In 1997 or so, the TG&Y portion of the sh...