Pleasant Family Shopping

[Unimatic1140]

I'm not sure if you all have seen this absolutely fantastic website "A nostalgic look back at supermarkets, discount stores and more from the past"

Wow, and be sure to look at the amazing Sears Pictures!!!

Pleasant Family Shopping

A nostalgic look back at chain stores and other everyday places from the past

pleasantfamilyshopping.blogspot.com

 

[Unimatic1140]

this site has some amazing pictures, supermarket shopping in 1957

 

[douglasdc6]

I love Sears!!!!

Thanks for posting this Robert ,

We have a store here that was built in 1950 - I love to shop at that store - Oh the wonderful memories !!!

All the other stores are new.

 

[scott55405]

Oh I love this kind of stuff, thanks for posting! The Sears in St. Paul right off Robert St. used to have Sears signs like the ones in the picture above for a long time, I wish they had left well enough alone!

 

[jeffg]

WOW Robert, thanks!!!!!!!!!!!

That's South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa. It's still alive and kicking, and one of the few places left in CA where Saks, Nordstrom and Bloomingdale's are all in the same mall.

 

[autowasherfreak]

PBR Me ASAP

My mother used to drink PBR.

 

[scott55405]

OMG that's Southcoast? I go there all the time and one of my friends/our members lives right by it. I love that place. Unfortunately they changed their Sears signs too, LOL.

Oh yes I see the May Co. at the other end now. I've seen a picture of the mall from days of old before, but from the opposite angle so the Sears was not as prominent.

 

[danemodsandy]

You Know....

....You're looking at really old photos when you see a KMart with more than two registers open.

I've often wondered if KMart management has any idea how much more profitable their stores would be if only they had people on hand to take your money.

 

[bugsyjones]

Those Darn Kids....

...dancing to their "rock and roll" and playing Twister!

 

[bugsyjones]

Thank you, my good man....

...you may load my groceries into my....

1958 EDSEL BERMUDA WAGON!!!!!

Or...come to think of it, it may just be a '58 Ford Country Squire. Either way...I love it.

 

[foraloysius]

I love that kind of stuff too. Overhere in the Netherlands we never had such big stores, our department stores were much smaller and shopping malls were a big no for a long time to protect the centres of the cities.

BTW, that Kenmore washer looks familiar!!

 

[appnut]

Didyou notice in the above picture there are water hoses behind the washer connected to faucets i the wall?

 

[58limited]

I guess I don't get out much. I thought Market Basket was just a Southeast Texas, SW Louisiana chain. We have several in my area. Didn't know they were national. Never saw any in my home town in the Dallas area or in places I've traveled. This pic was taken in 1956 in LA.

 

[dirtybuck]

Ah, nostalgia! Thanks, Robert! I love seeing things like this. It sure brings back memories.

I'm sure NO ONE in here missed the box of Tide in that ladies shopping cart.

 

[jetcone]

David

we have Market Basket here in Boston, its the best deals around! I shop there twice a week!

Nielsen Massey Vanilla paste $5.99 at Market Basket, everywhere else here $11.99!!!!

Love the Sun setting over the Mall, true american living LOL!

 

[passatdoc]

SoCal native here

SoCal had both the Food Basket and Market Basket chains. I remember seeing a Market Basket store somewhere in Anaheim as late as the mid-80s. Don't know what happened to them or who absorbed them or whether they went belly up. Food Basket was absorbed by Albertsons, and the Food Basket near my old stomping grounds is now an Albertsons.

 

[passatdoc]

re: South Coast Plaza

Yes, that is the original incarnation of South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, which boasts the highest sales per square foot of any mall in the US if not the world.

The Sears store has been remodeled and does not have the green Sears logo anymore, but it still had it when I moved to OC in 1982. The May Co store is now a Macys.

Of course, the mall has quadrupled (or more) in size since its inception. In the late 1980s, the Segerstrom family, owners of the mall bought out the leases of some of the tenants in the original wing whose presence detracted from the upscale ambiance of the mall. Woolworth didn't mix with Gucci and Yves St. Laurent. Sears was allowed to stay, but some of the low to mid range retailers were forced out from the original May-Sears wing. For the most part, the subsequent additions were built in an era when Segerstrom could pick and choose its tenants and they aimed decidedly at the upscale market.

 

[passatdoc]

LOL Market Basket

I have a feeling the two women in short shorts were paid models. In the 50s, you were more likely to see a woman in a sensible dress and cardigan, as it captured in the background of the photo.

 

[passatdoc]

LOL Market Basket

I have a feeling the two women in short shorts were paid models. In the 50s, you were more likely to see a woman in a sensible dress and cardigan, as it captured in the background of the photo.