Former Alpha Beta locations

[Jeff]

Regarding the two previous posts:

626 South Citrus is on the east side of the street. According to the initial posts, this is now a Volvo dealer. If an Alpha Beta was ever located there, I never knew it; it had to have been before my time.

The former Covina Alpha Beta that is now a Ralphs (that Jeff mentioned) is the one I mentioned in my previous post. It's at 425 S. Citrus Avenue.

Sorry. My bad.

This location was for a long time Chick's Sporting Goods. It was a market,
and had entrances on both sides I remember. It had a sign tower and was a
classic bubble roof. It was torn down when Chick's moved into the former
Eastland Mall.

What was the store where the Enterprise is now (that used to be Chicks Sporting Good's Ski Store)

[runchadrun]

I think you missed this one in Van Nuys at the corner of Sepulveda and Vanowen. This was a Ralphs until it closed a few months ago. I had been listed as available for lease or sale at krogerrealestate.com but it's no longer listed so they must have a new tenant.
http://local.live.com/?v=2&sp=Point.pq5 ... d%20States___

I believe this Albertsons in Burbank at the corner of Hollywood Way and Verdugo was also an Alpha Beta. It was expanded and remodeled a few years ago. If you look closely at the sign on the corner you'll see the oval shape of the AB sign and when it was a Lucky it had the 3-door design that was particular to AB.
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2& ... ne=3390045

This AB is at the corner of Overland and Jefferson in Culver City. It's now a Ralphs
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2& ... ne=7001228

[runchadrun]

San Bernardino - 155 E. 40th St. no longer seems to exist...
http://local.live.com/?v=2&sp=Point.ppt ... d%20States___

but the architecture at the Autozone at 233 East 40th makes me wonder if this was a 1970s build/relocation:
http://local.live.com/?v=2&sp=Point.ppt ... d%20States___

My recollection is that the Autozone is in the old AB building.

The Stater Bros you see there replaced the empty store that's at the corner of 40th and Waterman at the far end of that center. This would have been in the late 80's/early 90's, which when I was working in Lake Arrowhead for the summer.

[RandallFlagg]

There was also a location in Alta Loma that doesn't appear on the 73 locations. I think in was built in the late 70's or early 80's. It was located on the se corner of 19th street and Carnelian.
Also I didn't see you list a location in Ontario. It was a newer store and was on the nw corner of 4th street and vineyard.
Off the subject, but about Alpha Beta, does anybody remember tapa punch? Is there anything out now that has that taste?

[TheStranger]

There was also a location in Alta Loma that doesn't appear on the 73 locations. I think in was built in the late 70's or early 80's. It was located on the se corner of 19th street and Carnelian.

19th of course was State Route 30 for many years, and that's being supplanted by the 210 extension.

Here's a Live Local shot of that store:
http://local.live.com/?v=2&sp=Point.ppn ... d%20States___

[J-Man]

Arcadia - 140 E. Duarte, now Grand Slam Sports Center

Duarte - 1322 E. Huntington Dr., now Big Lots

Unless there was more than one Alpha Beta, these two seem wrong to me. The Alpha Beta in Arcadia was on Duarte Rd. and Second Ave., and became a 99 Cents Only store, and remains so today.
The Alpha Beta in Duarte was on the south side of Huntington and is now Mike's Food. Someone posted a great old picture of that store from the 50s on this board in another thread. The Big Lots is on the north side of Huntington (corner of Buena Vista) and was originally, I believe, a Vons.

[TheStranger]

Arcadia - 140 E. Duarte, now Grand Slam Sports Center

Duarte - 1322 E. Huntington Dr., now Big Lots

Unless there was more than one Alpha Beta, these two seem wrong to me. The Alpha Beta in Arcadia was on Duarte Rd. and Second Ave., and became a 99 Cents Only store, and remains so today.
The Alpha Beta in Duarte was on the south side of Huntington and is now Mike's Food. Someone posted a great old picture of that store from the 50s on this board in another thread. The Big Lots is on the north side of Huntington (corner of Buena Vista) and was originally, I believe, a Vons.

Those addresses all came from the Groceteria list of 1973 Alpha Beta locations on the Alpha Beta section of the site.

[J-Man]

I don't think the problem is with the Alpha Beta addresses, it's with the addresses of the current tenants. According to the 99 Cents Only stores website, the Arcadia location is at 140 E. Duarte Rd. And Mike's Food's address is, indeed 1322 E. Huntington Dr. Big Lots in Duarte is at 1325 E. Huntington (across the street in a different shopping center.) I couldn't find anything called "Grand Slam Sports" in Arcadia. There is a store next to the former Alpha Beta called Treasure Island Sports that deals in trading cards.

[TheStranger]

This Cupertino Ranch 99 looks like a former Alpha-Beta gable:

http://flickr.com/photos/deaneckles/155283639/

A SoCal Korean gable...AB or SWY? Can't tell...
http://flickr.com/photos/operadork/14652773/

Is this closed Lucky/Albertsons...the old Alpha Beta on 1610 Saratoga-Sunnyvale Rd (DeAnza Bl)?

http://flickr.com/photos/vsolanoy/92965389/

[TheStranger]

A Palm Springs Alpha Beta, designed by Albert Frey, unfortunately demolished in 2002.

http://www.psmodcom.com/us.html

Alpha Beta in Santa Ana, not sure the address:


Here's a shot of the Chino Hills AB (when it was still operational) at Chino Hills Parkway (Route 142) and Pipeline:
http://www.chinohills.org/econ/space2.shtml

It's now 99 Cents Only:
http://local.live.com/?v=2&sp=Point.pnx ... d%20States___

Interestingly, from that Chino Hills development page, they mention...

Across From Major K-Mart Shopping Center

What appears to have been K-Mart (the largest building in the shopping center on the northeast corner of the intersection)...is now vacant, and seems to have already been something else in recent years that closed down. (Some shots in Live Local show the existing facade to the building, specifically the east shot, while the northward shot in one instance shows it as KMart.)

[runchadrun]

A SoCal Korean gable...AB or SWY? Can't tell...
http://flickr.com/photos/operadork/14652773/

This store is on Olympic & New Hampshire. I saw it when I ran the LA Marathon this year and it looked like an Alpha Beta to me.

[TheStranger]

This store is on Olympic & New Hampshire. I saw it when I ran the LA Marathon this year and it looked like an Alpha Beta to me.

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2& ... ne=6953250

Looking at it from Live Local, the lack of wings (which was much less common for Safeway) makes me agree with your assessment here...

The Torrance Hannam (Market World) store also looks like it could be a former AB judging from the roof arch:
http://local.live.com/?v=2&sp=Point.pn3 ... d%20States___

[runchadrun]

Looking at it from Live Local, the lack of wings (which was much less common for Safeway) makes me agree with your assessment here...

I figured it out from the fact that the letters were in individual cans and that there were 3 doors, 2 on the right and left sides of the front as an entrance and 1 in the middle for exit.

[klkla]

This store is on Olympic & New Hampshire. I saw it when I ran the LA Marathon this year and it looked like an Alpha Beta to me.

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2& ... ne=6953250

Looking at it from Live Local, the lack of wings (which was much less

You know your gable stores. I remember it when it was an Alpha Beta. It closed just after I moved to L.A. to go to college.

[TheStranger]

Here's a 1947 photo of an Alpha-Beta at 406 Lincoln (then East Center) at Olive in Anaheim, from the Anaheim Public Library (via UC Calisphere)...

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/affiliates/ima ... P12482.jpg

From a LL shot, it looks like the site is a parking lot now.