Classic Looking Grocery Stores Still In Operation

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Classic Looking Grocery Stores Still In Operation

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Are there any classic looking grocery stores still in operation? There used to be drive thru grocery stores in California.

Here are what some old grocery stores looked like originally:

https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/wha ... 829473.php
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Love that Streamline Moderne Ralphs store!
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I didn’t know Piggly Wiggly operated in SoCal. I wonder if it was a franchise and who bought the stores.
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jamcool wrote: ↑March 1st, 2022, 10:51 pm I didn’t know Piggly Wiggly operated in SoCal. I wonder if it was a franchise and who bought the stores.
According to Wikipedia, several California-based Piggly Wiggly franchisees were acquired by Safeway in 1928-29.
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But the stores in the photos are circa 1962
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