CompUSA Culver City

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Hey Guys! It's been awhile since ive been on here! I was passing by the CompUSA in culver city today on Jefferson and noticed how much it looks like a super market. Me being semi curious, I went around back to see if it had a loading dock (a good way to tell if an old store used to be a super market!) and I did find a loading dock. I don't believe CompUSA ever has used this area in back of the store. Does anyone know what store this used to be???

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It was the Jefferson Bowl bowling alley. There were a few proposals over the years to build 10+ story office buildings there but they were always rejected by the city and the high rises got built in the Corporate Pointe area instead.
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The Big Lots close by to that CompUSA was a Market Basket, as said in multiple threads.
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Jeff wrote:The Big Lots close by to that CompUSA was a Market Basket, as said in multiple threads.
Actually it was a Mayfair. The Ralphs in Culver Center was a Market Basket.
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runchadrun wrote:
Jeff wrote:The Big Lots close by to that CompUSA was a Market Basket, as said in multiple threads.
Actually it was a Mayfair. The Ralphs in Culver Center was a Market Basket.
Sorry. that's what I meant.
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Deleted off-topic posts about CompUSA's current operations. However, please feel free to continue discussions about the supermarket history of this location.
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hmmm...so does anyone else know of this location being a former super market. It fits everything a supermarket would need to operate.
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steps wrote:hmmm...so does anyone else know of this location being a former super market. It fits everything a supermarket would need to operate.
I doubt it ever was a former supermarket. It opened in 1957 as the Jefferson Bowl and I couldn't find any reference to a supermarket being at that location before 1957. It closed in the mid-80s. As David mentioned in http://www.groceteria.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=1134 , the architectural requirements of supermarkets and bowling alleys are similar but there are very few conversions from one to other.
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runchadrun wrote:
steps wrote:hmmm...so does anyone else know of this location being a former super market. It fits everything a supermarket would need to operate.
I doubt it ever was a former supermarket. It opened in 1957 as the Jefferson Bowl and I couldn't find any reference to a supermarket being at that location before 1957. It closed in the mid-80s. As David mentioned in http://www.groceteria.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=1134 , the architectural requirements of supermarkets and bowling alleys are similar but there are very few conversions from one to other.
only a few have been transformed from Bowling alley to supermarket. Case in point, the old bowling alley in Montebello on Via Campo that was turned into a Ranch 99 market. It has been empty since the market closed in the early - mid 90's.
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In Palm Springs there is a Vons on Tahquitz Canyon Bl. that was originally a bowling alley.

It will close in about a year when the store is relocated to nearby Sunrise Way (Palm Springs).
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The Culver City Caifornia, Comp U.S.A. store is in a strip mall with several other retail stores. The strip mall replaced the demolished Jefferson Bowl building several years ago. The Comp U.S.A. store portion/section in the strip mall complex was never a supermarket.
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