Vintage Supermarkets in Movies and TV (Old Ones Only Please)

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I was watching an old episode of "Eight is Enough" from 1977 where little Nicholas ran away to a drug store that was very familiar to me as I live very close to where the pharmacy is now located!

The episode is called "Quarantine" and the drug store is now a CVS Pharmacy at the corner of Hollywood Way and Verdugo Ave. in Burbank. The Carl's Jr. seen with the original signage in the background closed about six months ago and is currently empty. This shopping center is a block from the Warner Bros. (former Columbia) Ranch.

I can't entirely tell if the building that now houses a Smart & Final Extra! existed at that time; in 1977, this shopping complex was rather new as the land was actually part of the Ranch lot that was sold off.

I found the video online here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4u1tt3

Some shots can be found below.
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KSiteTV wrote: 02 Sep 2019 18:02 I can't entirely tell if the building that now houses a Smart & Final Extra! existed at that time; in 1977, this shopping complex was rather new as the land was actually part of the Ranch lot that was sold off.
The LA County Assessor's website shows both the Alpha Beta (currently Smart & Final) and the SavOn Drugs (Currently CVS) as being built in 1975 although some of the smaller buildings on the site were added 76, 77, and 78.
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Wow, I didn't know that CVS was a SavOn in those early days - it was still SavOn when I moved here, but assumed it was a more independent drug store when that Eight is Enough episode was shot. As far as I can tell, there was no visible signage for the name of the store within the episode.

Also did not realize that was an Alpha Beta originally! I knew there was one on Alameda (near the Pickwick Drive-In which is now a shopping center with a Pavilions, and mentioned earlier in this thread), but I didn't realize there was one this close.

Would you happen to know if the Vons at Lakeside Shopping Center was always a Vons?
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KSiteTV wrote: 05 Sep 2019 14:25Would you happen to know if the Vons at Lakeside Shopping Center was always a Vons?
I assume it was always a Vons. I was thinking there was a chance that it might have been a Shopping Bag originally, but that is unlikely because it was built in 1962 and Vons had already bought Shopping Bag in March of 1960.
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In the Vietnam war film Born On The Fourth Of July (1989), the main character, before going off to Vietnam, is shown working at an A&P Supermarket and we get decent views of the store. However I'd guess it's a recreation for the film.
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This Austedo commercial was filmed at Howie’s market in San Gabriel, at 6580 N San Gabriel Blvd. According to the LA County property assessor, the supermarket was built in 1962, with an expansion out front built in 1984.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gLB5XWAQzBE
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In the original THE BLOB (1958) Steve McQueen's character's father owns a grocery store and he and his girlfriend get trapped in the store's freezer by the monster. We don't see a store name but given his father owned the store it was probably an independent.

In both ADAM-12 (1968-75) and EMERGENCY (1972-80) I had the impression that all the grocery stores were independents and not part of a chain - most of them were small. It's interesting to look at food prices painted on the windows plus gas prices when 1-A12 drives by gas stations. A number of liquor stores featured prominently in ADAM-12 and DRAGNET 1966, these also seemed to be independents.

ANIMAL HOUSE was shot in Oregon but I don't know where Faber College was supposed to be located. The grocery store is named FOOD KING for the movie. Supposedly if you look at the check-out counters only the used one has an old manual cash register correct for the time, the rest have newer electronic models if you look carefully...

LAW & ORDER and LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT are both set in New York City. Many episodes deal with crimes in grocery stores but most seem to be small independent bodega's. I remember one episode of SVU where a baby is abducted from a shopping cart in a larger grocery store but IIRC no store name is mentioned...

ETA: The movie PANIC IN YEAR ZERO (1962) has Ray Milland and his family stop at a grocery store in a small town somewhere outside of Los Angeles to buy food before the fact that nuclear war has broken out becomes public knowledge. The store is obviously a small independent.
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Blair Bradford wrote: 24 Mar 2006 13:28 Doris Day's last movie was "With Six You Get Eggroll". In one scene, she is shopping in a market and runs into Brian Keith, who was supposed to be picking up a client at the airport. Anyway, does anyone know if that was filmed in a real market or on a sound stage?
Old post, but I actually did some screen grabs from this yesterday, in case anyone has a clue. The shopping carts have a plate that seems to say "Continental" but that may be covering the real name or may just be the manufacturer of the cart. Anyway, screenshots attached. Based on other locations, it was probably in the general area of Toluca Lake/Burbank/North Hollywood.
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WITH SIX YOU GET EGGROLL remains one of my favorite films. My mom was a huge Doris Day fan and we own a lot of her films on DVD - My other personal favorite is LOVER COME BACK...
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BK31 wrote: 04 Oct 2010 23:34 I was just watching Repo Man on Netflix on demand tonight and one of the early scenes has Otto tagging and stacking cans of generic cling peaches in a 'pik n' pay.' At the very end of the credits there is a special thanks to Ralphs Supermarkets which is what I'll assume they filmed it in. There are some good shots with aisle wayfinders and decor in the background if anyone can verify it.
Those generic products are indeed Ralphs Plain Wrap.
Watched Repo Man last night. Looking closely, I saw a box with the Shurfine label in one of the scenes filmed in "Pik N Pay".

Kinda off-topic, but did Ralphs use the Shurfine brand?
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There is a scene in the early part of the movie "The Irishman" with Robert DeNiro that shows a Food Fair logo on a grocery delivery truck.

He apparently works for the Food Fair warehouse in Philadelphia as a delivery driver to the stores.

Very cool to see!

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The new Netflix movie "White Noise," which takes place in Ohio in 1984, recreated an A&P for this exterior shot, and for several extended scenes that take place in the interior.

I strongly suspect that this exterior was created using special effects (either completely or partially), and that the interior was built especially for the film, either on a soundstage or within an existing vacant store (not necessarily an A&P).

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trainman wrote: 30 Dec 2022 23:49 I strongly suspect that this exterior was created using special effects (either completely or partially), and that the interior was built especially for the film, either on a soundstage or within an existing vacant store (not necessarily an A&P).
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Absolutely agree about the exterior signage because they combined the "capsule" logo from 1976 onward with "Food Store" which was the font lettering used on most Centennials and in reality that's incorrect because it actually read "Food Stores" instead.
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"Shopping Bag" store in The Monkeys TV show opening

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Hi,

The TV show "The Monkees" had a quick picture of them driving by a "Shopping Bag" grocery store. It was located just west of the corner of Colorado Blvd. and Eagle Rock Blvd. in Los Angeles CA. It was in the opening scene from 1965/66 when they are hanging out the windows of the Monkee mobile. I recognized it because I recalled the store as well as the old Rexall Drug store in the background where, as a kid, I bought many comics in the 60's.

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