1966 Safeway Replacement (Puyallup, Wash.)
Posted: 13 Nov 2006 21:38
From the October 1966 issue of Safeway News, here's a photo essay detailing the replacement of a classic 1940s store with a Marina. The new store, #422, is still in service -- more than twice as many years as the predecessor building. In the Northwest Safeways thread, someone linked to a couple of current photos of this store.
Many issues of the company's employee newsletter had similar photos of vintage stores being replaced by an adjacent Marina and then demolished. "Outmoded" was a term commonly used to describe the old buildings. The process is very reminiscent of something McDonald's would do a few years later when replacing their original arch buildings with mansard-roofed models.
http://us.a2.yahoofs.com/users/LaitKHbs ... as=puyswy1
http://us.a2.yahoofs.com/users/LaitKHbs ... as=puyswy2
http://us.a2.yahoofs.com/users/LaitKHbs ... as=puyswy3
http://us.a2.yahoofs.com/users/LaitKHbs ... as=puyswy4
Many issues of the company's employee newsletter had similar photos of vintage stores being replaced by an adjacent Marina and then demolished. "Outmoded" was a term commonly used to describe the old buildings. The process is very reminiscent of something McDonald's would do a few years later when replacing their original arch buildings with mansard-roofed models.
http://us.a2.yahoofs.com/users/LaitKHbs ... as=puyswy1
http://us.a2.yahoofs.com/users/LaitKHbs ... as=puyswy2
http://us.a2.yahoofs.com/users/LaitKHbs ... as=puyswy3
http://us.a2.yahoofs.com/users/LaitKHbs ... as=puyswy4