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Yeah, my parents were never Lucky shoppers, and I must say I'm not one either. The recently reincarnated chain has proven disappointing with poor selection and a perceptable appeal to the lowest common denominator.

The old Berkeley Lucky tower is across Shattuck from the Safeway you mentioned. And yeah, the street changes names weirdly through that stretch until it heads through the old Key System tunnel and becomes Solano. My sister used to live at 1152 Sutter, so I am quite familiar with that quirky little section.
 
I lived near Oxford and Rose during the early 70's but for the life of me I don't recall the Lucky's... although I'm sure it's still there. I shopped mostly at the Co-Op stores, which no longer exist. Along with Whole Earth Access Company and other baby boomer Utopian enterprises.
 
Loved the video

Brings back the childhood memories of going with mom to "Food Town" which was the predecessor to Food Lion. I remember all the checker girls being very nice and pretty too. Everything was keypunch on NCR 255 Registers. I can still remember the sound of them and watching the little black knob on the side rotate as the tape came out. Makes me long for the simple days again.
 
Bag Boys

We had Fedmart in Phoenix. Was originally a membership club for government workers. My older sister had a government clearance for doing production typing on various manuals, so she was able to get in.

Now about bag boys. Growing up we had a wonderful Safeway with one of those huge yellow tile towers. It was off of 40th Street & Thomas in Phoenix. Though I don't personally recall the episodes as I was only about 2, but one of the bag boys used to make fun of me and thought I was such a cute little girl. I had very nice blond curls. Now it's dark brown and silver.(somewhere I still have an envelope with those curls!) From what my family tells me I used to get real mad at the bag boy and holler at him. The bag boy? Wayne Newton.
 
Loblaws downtown Sarnia

Here's an old pic I found of the downtown Loblaws grocery in Sarnia here.. 1958,,, building 2nd on right. Adams Furniture is also long gone,,the buildings are there, Loblaws is a trashy flea market now and Adams Furniture store just got fixed up

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We still have A&P in New Jersey, just recently we went to a mueseum in Paterson and they had a display on the history on A&P with alot of A&P items. Took some pictures of what they had. Brough back memories.Here is a picture of the "Centennial Store". There is still one in Morristown NJ and it is still an A&P.

Doug

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Sudmaster

Thanks for the photo of the old White Front Store located where Seals Stadium was situated. I had totally forgotten about this big store on 16th and Potrero Avenue. It then became J. Borg Home Improvement Store, then car dealerships and Safeway and presently an enlarged shopping complex with a substantially enlarged Safeway with a Ross Store, Office Depot, Starbucks, Noah's Bagel, CSAA, Chase Bank, and other stores
 
Old oz supermarkets

Well this is a great thread and brings back many memories for me as someone who worked for Woolworths for 10 years.
There used to be quite a few small independent supermarket chains in Australia,but unfortunately as time went on most have either gone or been taken over, basically now in Australia we have only 2 giant chains, Woolworths and Coles and there are a couple of small chains in N.S.W notably Franklins and I.G.A., I am not too sure about the other states, maybe the other Aussie guys can help out.
Here are the old chains now gone that I remember,
1.Cut-Price food stores.
2.4 Square stores.
3.Permewans food stores.
4.Jewel food stores.
5.M.F.C.Stores, which stood for Major Food Centres.
The main reason I remember soem of these was my dad used to own his own cleaning business and on occasions he would take me with him, I do remember quite distinctively the M.F.C. store at Lakemba and good old Mr. White who owned the sotre, one of nature's true gentlemen.
Funny seeing the old N.C.R. cash registers my old Woolies store had those when I worked for them,here they were known as the N.C.R Class 3 register, basically the same functioning as those large ones in the movie just a smaller frame,here is a picture.

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Blimey...

....Here are a few others that have gone from our local scene...

- Supa-Scoop
- Owl Supermarkets
- Shop-Rite

But we do have Supabarn here. A locally owned chain that is expanding into NSW....They keep top quality meat and veg...better than Coles and Woolworths...mind, they are dearer too

http://www.supabarn.com.au/
 
Welcome-Mart

Thanks Chris,
Great news hearing about Supabarn,hope they open one near us in the next year or so as well.
I have just thought of another small independent chain now gone I guess and that was Welcome-Mart.
If only we had even just some of these smaller chains still around, and to tell you the truth I would not care if they were dearer than Woolies and Coles at least it would give us a little more choice.
 
Foraloysius, i really enjoyed the film, thanks. JasonL, the Schweggmann's in Harvey sold appliances too, mostly GE, Wp. The NCR register brought back many memories, I was a hotel night auditor in the 1980's I remember having the NCR during the World's Fair in 1984, you posted, room, tax, long distance, valet, Misc (postcards). This was still, when the phone company called the desk clerks time and charges on long distance. All these categories had there own color voucher that had to be machine stamped in a slot on the NCR, as the guest folio flowed under another print surface on the left hand side. This process made so much racket that the room next to the office was not rented, until the audit was done. I got off topic but what a great thread. alr2903
 

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