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I remember the cows on the tops from a trip to Myrtle Beach as a pre-teen. We returned through Greenville because my mother has family in the Clemson-Senaca area of Pickens and Oconee Cos. I remember the corrugated metal facades with BI "the giant plastic cow" LO and the metal was usually ...

Still operating ec-Futurestore locations in the Atlanta region: Publix: 4750 Alabama Rd, NE, Roswell in the Mountain Park Plaza 2155 North Decatur Rd, Decatur , at Clairmont near Emory University,store had Sav-a-Center decor Kroger: 2100 Roswell Rd, NE Marietta, East Lake Pavillions S/C, an expansio...

The only chain grocer to keep the Kroger cube I can think of is Red Food in Chattanooga, though they were converted to BiLo over a decade ago and BiLo replaced the cubes with their when the BiLo replaced Red Food on the two, of seven former Kroger stores, that are still operating. Red Food used a ro...

Mea culpa about the Clairmont/North Decatur store, it was a FutureStore with the Sav-a-Center decor inside, green with wood tones instead of the black graphics on white. I think I let the merger of the A&P and Big Star(in Atlanta) and its current use as Publix throw me on that one. Back to topic...

The only locations I can think that are still grocery stores is Earl's SuperValu in Athens, TN which is in a mid- or late-60's construct with a former Kuhn's Big K/Wal-Mart. It was the last A&P built in the Chattanooga area, and closed by the late 70's. It is also the closest centennial design t...

I would guess the greenhouse interior is from a remodel. It looks as if a hodge-podge updating has been attempted, as the graphics seem to have been repainted from their original colors and the thank you sign above the exit is from the late 90's/early 80's decor package. The store may predate the su...

The first supermarket in Peachtree City, GA was Big Star, which opened around the time Grand Union acquired the chain. It was the first Big Star with Grand Union decor and the "Red Dot" that I had seen, very upscale for Georgia at the time with gourmet cheeses and bulk foods and candy. The...

I had forgotten about Thriftown/Big Buy. The last two I recall were in Canton and Ellijay, under the Thriftown banner. I think they were primarily independents under a common banner and usually in a former chain location. They were short lived and I think SuperValu supplied, as many were former Big ...

There seems to be debate as to whether the Lee's Famous Recipe is the actual Colonel Sander's original recipe or not. It has been said that the original recipe at Kentucky Fried Chicken was altered after Colonel Sander's sold the chain and that Lee's uses a more authentic recipe for the chicken and ...

JCPenney was the primary user of the magnetic light pen which did indeed use MICR numbers similar to checks. I believe Sears and some department stores dabbled in the MICR technology as well, but the UPC scanning technology became the norm by the mid/late-80's. Grand Union/Big Star was heavy on the ...

Delray Farms is targeting the hispanic market in Illinois and expanding into Georgia, where they have made use of a former Winn-Dixie Marketplace in Dalton. Gainesville and Dalton are the target markets for their expansion, and presumably the Atlanta area. I have found no evidence of their being rel...

Thanks for the link, the Hills section and the old Bruno's logo was interesting. Again, I'm not sure that this King's was part of the chain that Winn-Dixie bought or a local independent. I'll be asking older relatives and friends about this store as well as checking out microfiched copies of the loc...

I've been looking for info on the web regarding the King's supermarket chain that was absorbed by Winn-Dixie in 1956. The history section of WD's website doesn't contain any information about the geography and size of the chain. Winn-Dixie had acquired Hill's stores in Alabama around the same time. ...

The address for Food Depot is 1201 West Taylor, the previous Kroger was 1221 West Taylor, so evidently they used the location of the old JCPenney or more correctly leveled the Kroger and JCPenney. This was I believe the last new construct for Cub Foods, other locations were former Bruno's/FoodMax lo...

IIRC, the Griffin Food Depot/Cub Foods is the original Kmart location on West Taylor St, with an odd pairing with Winn-Dixie which relocated next Wal-Mrt in the mid-80's. Kmart relocated in the late-80's or early90's, in the same center with Kroger and JCPenney on North Expressway,only to be a casua...