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Re: Upthread--PG Plaza had a Grand Union in the early 70s. It was a relatively large store for that era. I don't recall which end of the center. Probably the West, as I think Murphy's was the end store for the east. Hecht's, like most of the May chains, had auto centers. They started out as "Fa...

Re: upthread---Kroger was a latecomer to full service delis. Kroger stores in Northern markets like Cleveland, Chicago & Pittsburgh had been outmoded, compared with the competition for many years before they opened the superstores. Some supermarket chains had these in the 1950s. The Fisher Foods...

Hadn't thought about parcel pick-up in ages. The last time I remember using it was at Russo's Stop-n-Shop in Cleveland Heights, Ohio in the 80s. Parcel pick-up had already died out at the major chains (sometime in the late 60s), but independents like Russo's, as well as the upscale Heinen's chain st...

This chain had stores in Dayton, Cincinnati, Columbus, & Toledo, as well as various small cities in between like Bowling Green. It grew out of Bargain City (based in Toledo) and Rink's (based in Cincinnati). The chain was owned by Gray Drug, a Cleveland-based drug store chain for most of the 60s...

Safeway sold its NYC stores to First National in '61 or '62. The DC store looks like the one that was at 14th & Park Road, NW. There was a lot of controversy about what to do with that building in the 90s. I think it was demolished during the subway construction--it was boarded up in the early/m...

Super Duper was a coop supplied by Flickinger, which was acquired by one of the bigger wholesalers (Fleming, I believe), during the 80s. They had stores as far South/West as Columbus, Ohio during the 60s & 70s. Super Duper products also turned up at small chains and independents in Cleveland tha...

In the past, Red & White had a significant presence in the Midwest. They supplied a number of small chains in Ohio like Nitti's in Cleveland, as well as independents. Their HQ used to be listed as being Chicago. I've seen the brand in tha past couple years, but couldn't tell you where.

Their HQ was somewhere in the mid-Atlantic states. They bought out a number of regional discounters, including the Giant Tiger chain in Cleveland, Ohio. I think there might be store listing in the photos on remembering retail (a yahoo group).

The Alterman name is still around--is it just a trade name for Super Valu? You see it on delivery sized trucks in Atlanta. The Aleterman operation extended into South Carolina by the 70s, so it seems likely that they would have expanded from Atlanta in other directions, probably along the interststa...

Most chains used pilons or light fixtures that served a similar purpose in that period. My guess would be Acme. The pylon seems stubby and narrow enough that it would have to have carried a short name.

This is probably a different S&S--Stop-n-Shop (spelled like the co-op in Cleveland), not Stop & Shop like New England chain (which was part of the consortium of chains that owned Top Value). The Olds is hiding--I noticed the taillights; it's next to an older car on the foreground toward the ...

Washington Mutual has offices of various sorts all over the country. They are the former "Home Savings" of L.A. Given that there are a lot of S&Ls called "Home Savings", they went with a different name. They have a lot of mortgage-only offices in their retail banking territor...

I bought gas at the Shell station that's more or less in front of that store a few weeks ago. I was in a bit of hurry, so I didn't go in, but I wondered (at the time) how much longer the store would be around. It looks like it's the same size it would have been when it opened.

You're confusing the "Disco" and "Cruisy" Krogers. The Disco Kroger is in the Buckhead area and was recently remodeled as a Signature prototype at a reported cost of several million dollars. It looks like a slightly upscale Kroger, as it did in the recent past. The store used to ...

The newest cars in the lot are a '57 Olds and a '58 Buick (which would have been available in Fall '57). S&H Green Stamps replaced the script used on the store with a shield as their logo in 1960. Most stores adopted trading stamps around the mid-50s. Hopefully, that information could give someo...