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I almost spit out my soda when I saw this amazing specimen.
Based on the fact that it's now a Food Basics, I'd guess it was formerly a Dominion store, since it sure doesn't look like any A&P I've ever seen. However, I'm not all that familiar with their prototypes.
On a related subject, is it safe to assume that most Food Basics stores around Toronto are former A&P or Dominion locations? Or that most No Frills stores are former Loblaw's? Anyone familar with the Toronto landscape out there?
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Re: 5915 Yonge, North York ON
Hello. I'm new here to your great message boards which I've just discovered. I worked for A&P in Ottawa, Canada for 10 years until my store was shutdown in 2006. Anything A&P Canada-related on here, I have pretty good insight on.Groceteria wrote:
I almost spit out my soda when I saw this amazing specimen.
Based on the fact that it's now a Food Basics, I'd guess it was formerly a Dominion store, since it sure doesn't look like any A&P I've ever seen. However, I'm not all that familiar with their prototypes.
On a related subject, is it safe to assume that most Food Basics stores around Toronto are former A&P or Dominion locations? Or that most No Frills stores are former Loblaw's? Anyone familar with the Toronto landscape out there?
I used to go to that store on Yonge between Finch & Steeles as a kid when visiting my grandmother. It was originally a Miracle Mart until getting changed over to a Food Basics around 1998...right around the time the Miracle banner was phased-out by A&P and the Basics banner was just being introduced.
To answer your question above, unless there any new-builds around Toronto, all Food Basics are former A&P/Dominion/Miracle Mart or Ultra Mart locations. Ultra Marts were Miracle Marts with a pharmacy. A&P still has the Ultra banner but there are only 4 or 5 locations in Ontario and they were re-named as Ultra Food & Drug about 10 years ago.
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There's also this really amazing one which was mentioned in another thread, but apparently was always a Dominion:
http://www.lottaliving.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=7521
http://www.lottaliving.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=7521
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I'm pretty sure that location has always been Dominion.
Not to get too off topic, but the I do remember Miracle Mart banner was actually used around Ottawa by Steinberg's. However, in Ottawa these stores were general merchandise, low-end department stores, smaller than K-Mart, but bigger than Woolworth's.
Not to get too off topic, but the I do remember Miracle Mart banner was actually used around Ottawa by Steinberg's. However, in Ottawa these stores were general merchandise, low-end department stores, smaller than K-Mart, but bigger than Woolworth's.
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Was this location built by Steinberg or Grand Union?
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This store was opened as a Steinberg's. I've seen a photo of it on flickr.
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I just drove up Yonge the other night. The store appears to have a conventional roofline now. :( This store also looks a lot like a Ralphs (I think on Ventura Blvd.) I've seen in a book on Googie architecture, probably written by Alan Hess. The Food Basics logo is slightly different now, too, but you'd have to look to notice the difference.
The Yonge/Sheppard store is gone, too.
Further down Yonge, by Eglinton I think, there is still a Metro that might be 10K sf if it's lucky. I remember this one as a Dominion. I think I posted a shot of it somewhere.
In eastern Mississauga there is an old Dominion that still stands along the QEW...gable roof, like a Safeway. I think it's a Metro still; didn't get a good look at it was raining and the QEW is a wild place to drive.
The Yonge/Sheppard store is gone, too.
Further down Yonge, by Eglinton I think, there is still a Metro that might be 10K sf if it's lucky. I remember this one as a Dominion. I think I posted a shot of it somewhere.
In eastern Mississauga there is an old Dominion that still stands along the QEW...gable roof, like a Safeway. I think it's a Metro still; didn't get a good look at it was raining and the QEW is a wild place to drive.
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Ugh....What they did to the old arched Metro (late 1950s Grand Union....which was a Miracle Mart by the 70s and 80s) is GOD AWFUL. See the Metro store at the link below. The beautiful arch has been smothered by postmodern guck.
http://g.co/maps/pgygj
It used to look like this Metro (ne Grand Union) still in Scarborough:
http://spacingtoronto.ca/2009/01/16/sav ... permarket/
http://g.co/maps/fq3dv
http://g.co/maps/pgygj
It used to look like this Metro (ne Grand Union) still in Scarborough:
http://spacingtoronto.ca/2009/01/16/sav ... permarket/
http://g.co/maps/fq3dv
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That Metro has unfortunately been demolished.drubinoff wrote:Ugh....What they did to the old arched Metro (late 1950s Grand Union....which was a Miracle Mart by the 70s and 80s) is GOD AWFUL. See the Metro store at the link below. The beautiful arch has been smothered by postmodern guck.
http://g.co/maps/pgygj
It used to look like this Metro (ne Grand Union) still in Scarborough:
http://spacingtoronto.ca/2009/01/16/sav ... permarket/
http://g.co/maps/fq3dv
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The small Metro on Yonge was formerly Dominion, but was originally an A&P.robdude wrote:I just drove up Yonge the other night. The store appears to have a conventional roofline now. :( This store also looks a lot like a Ralphs (I think on Ventura Blvd.) I've seen in a book on Googie architecture, probably written by Alan Hess. The Food Basics logo is slightly different now, too, but you'd have to look to notice the difference.
The Yonge/Sheppard store is gone, too.
Further down Yonge, by Eglinton I think, there is still a Metro that might be 10K sf if it's lucky. I remember this one as a Dominion. I think I posted a shot of it somewhere.
In eastern Mississauga there is an old Dominion that still stands along the QEW...gable roof, like a Safeway. I think it's a Metro still; didn't get a good look at it was raining and the QEW is a wild place to drive.
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At least as recently as a few years back, I believe it still had an A&P parking sign in the back lot. I may have a picture somewhere. I'll look and add it if so. (Update: yes, see attachment, taken in 2006.)dominion301 wrote:The small Metro on Yonge was formerly Dominion, but was originally an A&P.
And having visited last week, I can confirm that the store that's the subject of this thread has indeed been altered. I wasn't able to get a photo, but it would have just depressed me anyway.