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by jimbobga
01 Aug 2008 15:31
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: Kroger (and ex-Kroger) stores in southern West Virginia
Replies: 15
Views: 23276

Re: Kroger (and ex-Kroger) stores in southern West Virginia

What a great picture of the Cumberland Road store. The picture makes it look as though the shopping center was shoved up against a mountain, but in actuality, four-laned, limited-access US 460 runs behind the store a short way up the East River Mountain. As for changes in the facade, about the only ...
by jimbobga
24 Jul 2008 13:31
Forum: History: USA Southeast
Topic: Bi Lo Equipment Auctions (Tennessee)
Replies: 4
Views: 3885

Re: Bi Lo Equipment Auctions (Tennessee)

The colonial-type of store was definitely a former Red Foods. There was one of this style visible just to the south on I-24 between I-75 and the "ridge cut" prior to descending into downtown Chattanooga. I was in one of these stores in the early nineties, and while the interior of the stor...
by jimbobga
03 Jul 2008 23:45
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Vintage Supermarkets in Movies and TV (Old Ones Only Please)
Replies: 178
Views: 142190

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As for he A&P scene in The Big Chill , since the majority of the movie was filmed in Beaufort, SC, the interior would have been the A&P on Ribault Road in Port Royal, a "suburb" of Beaufort. Winn-Dixie on Bullsboro Road in Newnan, GA, was looming in the background during the parkin...
by jimbobga
03 Jul 2008 23:45
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Trading Stamp Memories
Replies: 21
Views: 21867

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Plaid Stamps were given at A&P stores in Florida until the mid-sixties. THere was a stamp redemption store immediately next to the A&P in PineRidge Shopping Center in Cocoa, Florida. It seems like the redemption store closed around 1965. It was at the same time that Publix stopped giving S&a...
by jimbobga
22 Jun 2008 22:31
Forum: History: Department Store Chains
Topic: brendles department stores
Replies: 6
Views: 6799

Re: brendles department stores

It only took a week to remember! Brendle's opened in Savannah in the early 80's when it bougtht out the two Segall and Sons stores. Prior to the stores on Abercorn Street and East Victory Drive, Segall and Sons had a store just south of the intersection of West DeRenne Avenue, Bull Street, and White...
by jimbobga
13 Jun 2008 16:40
Forum: History: Department Store Chains
Topic: brendles department stores
Replies: 6
Views: 6799

Re: brendles department stores

Brendle's also was in the Savannah, Georgia, area during the same time period. They purchased a locally-owned chain that carried the same types of merchandise. There were two stores in the original chain...one on Victory Drive, and the other on Abercorn Street near Oglethorpe Mall. They stayed in bu...
by jimbobga
26 May 2008 00:19
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: Kroger (and ex-Kroger) stores in southern West Virginia
Replies: 15
Views: 23276

Re: Kroger (and ex-Kroger) stores in southern West Virginia

Good job, Andrew! That "Kroger Co." sign has been up on that original Kroger building for 50 years now. I'm wondering if the old Kroger in Pocahontas still has any evidence of a sign from about the same time. It was there the last time I looked [about 2000], although the store must have cl...
by jimbobga
06 May 2008 23:33
Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
Topic: Restaurant and fast food photos, Princeton WV area, 1987
Replies: 5
Views: 8620

Re: Restaurant and fast food photos, Princeton WV area, 1987

I"m glad you're documenting all of this, because I never seem to have the time to do it when I'm in that area. It hadn't dawned on me that these places were still open. If you get a pic of the Dairy Queen, see if Jimmy's Restaurant in downtown Princeton is still there. While the food wasn't too...
by jimbobga
03 May 2008 15:05
Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
Topic: Restaurant and fast food photos, Princeton WV area, 1987
Replies: 5
Views: 8620

Re: Restaurant and fast food photos, Princeton WV area, 1987

Excellent set of pics from that era. I really enjoyed looking at those. What's missing is the Kenney's at the intersection of WV 20 and Thorn Street, but it's possible the restaurant was closed by then. The building still remains, however, and the last time I was there it was a used car business. It...
by jimbobga
30 Jan 2008 23:47
Forum: History: USA Southeast
Topic: Wrigley in Atlanta?
Replies: 7
Views: 5383

Re: Wrigley in Atlanta?

While I didn't live in the Atlanta area at that time, I was in Savannah and made it to Atlanta on occasion. At that time, the area around the old stadium on the east side of the interstate was already in a state of decline. In addition to the stadium, a large Howard Johnson's complex was there along...
by jimbobga
21 Dec 2007 00:25
Forum: History: Department Store Chains
Topic: Sky City
Replies: 12
Views: 12550

Re: Sky City

In addition to the Georgia stores already mentioned, there was also a SkyCity store in Elberton; there was an Ingle's in the same shopping center. From what I can tell, they were the only game in town until Wal-Mart opened. The other location I am familiar with almost fits into the "far-flung&q...
by jimbobga
26 Nov 2007 23:15
Forum: History: Department Store Chains
Topic: TG&Y
Replies: 24
Views: 19201

This is skipping from California to Michigan to Florida. In 1962, TG&Y opened a store at Village Green Shopping Center in Cocoa-Rockledge, FL. This area already had Woolworth's, W. T. Grant, Kresge, W. W. Mac, and Neisner's. There had to have been other TG&Y locations in Florida that time, a...
by jimbobga
24 Nov 2007 16:03
Forum: History: Shopping Centers
Topic: Searstown shopping centers
Replies: 11
Views: 16567

As for the Sesrstown Mall in Titusville, Florida...this mall and the very close-by Miracle City Mall both opened during the same month in something like 1967. While Miracle City Mall was somewhat more upscale with Belk-Lindsey and Penney's, SearsTown had the stores that Miracle City did not have, so...
by jimbobga
01 Nov 2007 11:17
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: A VA/WV-area Acme Markets chain?
Replies: 34
Views: 30446

Southern West Virginia and southwest Virginia had a lot more population in 1940 and 1950 due to coal mining. There were also a variety of grocery chains in the area at that time. While Acme may have been a big name in the northeast, the VA/WV stores were a small chain headquartered in North Tazewell...
by jimbobga
10 Sep 2007 23:41
Forum: History: USA Southeast
Topic: Wilkesboro and North Wilkesboro NC
Replies: 8
Views: 9210

I had thought that this was a Kroger, but after a trip this week to Bluefield, WV, I'm sure of it. There is an identical store on North Avenue in Bluefield that Kroger opened probably around 1958. The barrel roof is not visible from the side, but at the back where nothing has been added by later occ...