"The stars shone just a little brighter that night. And the birds sang."A Pay Less Northwest/Safeway combination, somewhere in Washington state, 1961.
I couldn't let February slip by with nothing new at all on here. Hoping to have the next "real" post up within a few days!
The logo reminds me of the Skaggs/Pay Less/Osco/Rite Aid drugstore by my house. Used to have a Safeway nearby too, but they're all gone now (except the Rite Aid.)
ReplyDeleteYAY! I've missed your posts and this is short but sweet. LOVE the drawing! :D
ReplyDeleteA twin in Hayward,CA
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Hard to believe this actually a drawing.
ReplyDeleteA little OT but I recently printed out your voluminous collection on A&P that you wrote a couple of years ago and he enjoyed reading about their history very much. He was in awe of all the history behind this once huge company.
Beautiful! Amateur sociologists would have a field day with this one!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the new post. Looking forward to more :)
ReplyDeleteYes fond memories of the Pay Less Drugs before we ever heard of the "shoe source" out here in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was one of those "one-stop shop" stores my family spent many weekends in when I was a kid in the late 1970's. Later to be combined w/ "Thrifty Drugs" and their award winning ice creams. I look forward to more posts kind sir!
ReplyDeleteSafeway in the 1970s had stucco roofs above a white store. Interestingly, most of these are still largely intact: when Safeway abandoned Texas, a new supermarket broke off: AppleTree Markets. But the subsequent failure of AppleTree left many of these stores abandoned and taken over by other stores.
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