That store in Tara Hills (El Sobrante)
Posted: 10 Aug 2006 08:35
That building used to house a Big T supermarket and prior to that a Louis Store. There were over 40 Louis store locations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Also converting from Alpha Beta to 99 Cents Only: the location at 2nd Ave. and Duarte Rd. in Arcadia.Many old grocery stores in the Greater Los Angeles area transformed into 99-cent Only stores - a great number of those being former Ralphs stores that they acquired during its buy-out of Alpha Beta. Examples of those would be in Azusa (in the Foothill Center, on Alosta Blvd. & Citrus Ave.) and in Covina (San Bernardino Road & Vincent Ave.).
It woiuldn't surprise me in the least if this had originally been a Safeway/Super S combo, based on the uniform architecture.TheStranger wrote:Here's a former Safeway and Thrifty now being used as a swap meet center in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa, as photographed by Roadsidepictures in 2003.
That was actually the first thing I was thinking too...somehow the "wavy marina attached drugstore" look seems like something I have seen before in a photo, though I can't pinpoint where...Groceteria wrote:It woiuldn't surprise me in the least if this had originally been a Safeway/Super S combo, based on the uniform architecture.TheStranger wrote:Here's a former Safeway and Thrifty now being used as a swap meet center in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa, as photographed by Roadsidepictures in 2003.
What is the address of that store? Trying to see if I can find it on googlemaps...I'm thinking it's this one:Terry K wrote: We also have one functioning Marina in town that is now a Price Cutter (and up until 2000 or so was still in Safeway Decor.