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While I know there are no more Save-Rite stores in Georgia, to the casual observer, there are. When the stores closed, it seems as if they simply turned off the lights and went home. Several of the stores still have their signage intact, both on the front of the store, and on pylon signs next to the...

Two other department-store restaurants come to mind: Levy's of Savannah, a one-store Allied Stores unit, had a restaurant on the main floor of their downtown store. It was called "The Azalea Room," and remained unchanged even after Maas Brothers took over the chain. The restaurant even rem...

The restaurant at the Jordan Marsh store in Colonial Plaza in Orlando was located on the fourth floor. It was the only restaurant other than Ronnie's in the entire shopping center, and was also located about as far away from any sort of traffic that one could get. The fourth floor of JM at that time...

As a kid growing up on the "Space Coast" of Florida, I remember Gooding's ads on television out of Orlando. It seems like even in the late sixties the ads mention two locations, with the second location being somewhere like Winter Park. Gooding's opened in Viera - just south of Cocoa/Rockl...

Colonial Plaza in Orlando, Florida, contained a "winged-waterfall" Publix Market near the east end of the center, with a A&P, complete with pylon, at the west end. The A&P closed first, sometime in the late sixties, with Publix lasting much longer. I believe it closed when, in a de...

At a point in the early eighties, Red and White opened five stores in the Savannah area. All of the stores were in former Winn-Dixie stores. Winn-Dixie, after having only three stores in Savannah until about 1979, built two new stores and then quickly left the Savannah area due to "advertising ...

Since this is about Eckerd history, could somebody clear this up for me? Were there two different Eckerd chains? Eckerd Drugs in Florida and Eckerd's Drugs in North Carolina had totally different logos during the early sixties. It seems like I heard way back that the Florida stores were owned by Jac...

This was definitely an A&P. When I moved to Savannah in 1973, the store had probably been closed about three years. The building was then occupied by a local "Service Merchandise" type store for a few years. Well up into the late 70's, one could still see the labelscar on the front of ...

In addition to FutureStores in the Florida panhandle, there was a FutureStore that opened in Merritt Island, Florida in the late 70's. The store reamined open for about five years. Located across from Merritt Square Mall, the store shared a parking lot with Cook's Discount Store. Although the store'...

Two bits of information to answer some questions still remaining on this topic: 1] according to the owner of Crook's Marketplace in Senoia, Georgia, Food Depot is "just a new name for those 'Quality Foods' stores." Quality Foods had a store in downtown Newnan until three years ago when it ...

A former Colonial Store in Savannah, Georgia, at the corner of Waters Avenue and Montgomery Cross Road closed as a Colonial/Big Star before I moved to Savannah in 1973, but has remained a grocery store. A local independent, Andy's, operated in this location through the late 1990's, and the building ...

The Centennial store in downtown Fairburn, Georgia, remained an A&P until the chain exited the Atlanta area in 1999. Still in use as a grocery store, the building is now part of the Food Depot / Quality Foods chain, which has stores from the northwest Atlanta ex-urban area south to Fort Valley.