SFGate.com reports that the Safeway store at 3071 Stevens Creek Blvd., Valley Fair Shopping Center, is closing. See: https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/bay ... 401939.php
The article states that store has been open for 67 years, which would place the opening date circa 1956. I don't see any listing for a chain grocery store at that address on the following webpage:
https://www.groceteria.com/place/califo ... 1925-1979/
I also cannot find a store listed at that address on the Safeway website, even though the store apparently has not yet closed. See: https://local.safeway.com/search.html?q ... =5655&l=en
Additional news coverage of this store closure:
https://www.ktvu.com/news/longtime-safe ... anta-clara
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/s ... d/3332480/
Safeway-Santa Clara-3071 Stevens Creek Blvd. (Valley Fair)-Store Is Closing
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Re: Safeway-Santa Clara-3071 Stevens Creek Blvd. (Valley Fair)-Store Is Closing
Given Safeway's mergers and renovation pushes over the last couple decades, it's impressive (if bittersweet) that a store survived with the early/mid-1980s backlit "ribbon leaf" signage until now! Maybe not as impressive as an untouched 1956 store would have been, but old enough in 2023 to be interesting in its own right.
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Re: Safeway-Santa Clara-3071 Stevens Creek Blvd. (Valley Fair)-Store Is Closing
It's listed on the page for San Jose proper because that's how it was handled in the city directories of the time:
https://www.groceteria.com/place/califo ... 1925-1979/
https://www.groceteria.com/place/califo ... 1925-1979/
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Re: Safeway-Santa Clara-3071 Stevens Creek Blvd. (Valley Fair)-Store Is Closing
It opened January 1957, and the sign tower is original. At the time, it was the second largest Safeway in Northern California-after Market & Duboce SF. The Super S drug was added next door in October 1963.
1968 photo:
https://flickr.com/photos/61170309@N08/ ... Xk2-4St8AN
1968 photo:
https://flickr.com/photos/61170309@N08/ ... Xk2-4St8AN
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Re: Safeway-Santa Clara-3071 Stevens Creek Blvd. (Valley Fair)-Store Is Closing
Saw this 1960s footage of the Valley Fair area where the Safeway in its original Circle S signage can be seen:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C5mAfUFSjQ3/
https://www.instagram.com/p/C5mAfUFSjQ3/
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