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Re: SF/Fresno Weekend
Posted by Rob on 11/4/2005, 2:32 pm, in reply to "Re: SF/Fresno Weekend"
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: Blackstone is on of the best roads for
: zombies I have ever been on. Every
: time I stop at someplace there I can
: tell what it was after going inside.
: If you have time to cruise Blackstone
: it is worth a trip through time.
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: Yeah, there was a big article in the
: paper about it closing, and a lot of
: people turned up in the final weeks but
: the owner basically said there was too
: much competetion from new (And in the
: typical Fresnan's mind
: "better" restaurants out in
: River Park, and the business had slowed
: to the point where it wasn't viable
: anymore. (In addition to the pics I did
: get a breakfast and dinner menu from
: there!) I will try to add the pics to
: my Yahoo album sometime this week, or I
: can email them to you if you'd like.
:
: Save Mart has remodeled all their
: stores here in Fresno within the past 5
: or so years, so you can't really go
: into them and see blatant traces of old
: chains anymore. There is a largely
: untouched Alpha Beta out on Belmont
: & Peach now operating as an R-N
: Market. The wall lettering has been
: painted from the original brown, the
: aisle hangers have been replaced and a
: few asiles have been replaced with that
: tall "warehouse" style
: shelving but other than that it is
: still pretty much spot on for what a
: 70's A-B looked like, down to the weird
: (by today's standards) placement of the
: produce across from the meats.
:
: And of course there's the Ventura
: Market, which is still an unremodeled
: Marina Safeway. (Safeway closed that
: one in 1984, it reopened the same year
: as the independent Ventura.) In that
: one, all the wall lettering is 60's
: Safeway, but the aisle hangers were
: just replaced a few months ago. The
: aisles seem to be the original ones,
: but the checkouts seem to be new. They
: are still the turntable style, though.
: I have some inside and outside pics of
: that place as well.
:
:
: There is one Save Mart with a very old interior at Bullard & Minnewawa in Clovis. I don't know if any store existed there before that one. The locations that closed was the one on First & McKinley, Butler & Chestnut, and Herndon & Clovis in Clovis. Save Mart still has a store with a late 80s interior at Shields & Brawley. A Save Mart with an early 90s interior at First & Ness. One with a late 90s interior at Cedar & Ashlan. There is a Vons with an older interior at First & Nees. There is a couple of Vons stores in Fresno that used to be Alpha Beta. I think the one on Cedar & Dakota used to be an Alpha Beta.
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