Its kind of funny tho, appears that at one time Safeway had 3 stores on this stretch of 12th street. Here is a link to one that isn't on their site but it is still operating and is also an old marina Safeway. I also want to add that the Harvest Foods website does not list all of their stores. I will be going down to Little Rock saturday to get some pictures at least. Since I am only 47 and don't remember the 20's or 30's I wonder if the old Safeways were occupied by other stores that I may have seen as a kid? I am going to do some looking into this. I thought Safeway didn't come into the state until sometime in the 50's because all I saw growing up were the stores built in the 50's and later. Wow! I didn't know safeway was in Little Rock way back then. The striking thing was, these were fairly large stores for the era in some of the smaller markets-Kroger didn't have a larger store until its introduction of the Superstore to the region.
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These divisions seemed to be full of 50's shoebox/marina conversions and 60s marina and gable stores. On that trip, I realized that even thought the Kroger's seemed dated, the Safeway builds were older and obviously Kroger had invested more in Arkansas than Safeway.ĪWG would end up with the remains of the former Little Rock(Harvest), Oklahoma(Homeland) and Kansas City (Food Barn) divisions. Oddly, Kroger superstores were de rigueur, with a few greenhouses here and there. I can't remember if it was in Newport or Batesville.īy the time I was an adult and returned to Arkansas, Safeway has spun the Little Rock division off as Harvest Foods.
Looking back I wish I had been able to go in the store, it was a marina style store. The first time I was in Arkansas, as a child, was my first introduction to Safeway, but my family didn't go to one on that trip, a superstore Kroger was across the street, and a familiar name to Georgians. If anyone else has info on Safeway in Arkansas I would love to read it. I have more to say but I don't want my post to get too long and get yanked. I was wondering if it would be okay if I posted some of them? I don't have any pictures of when they were open as Safeway's, this is a close as I can get. I have several links to Google earth that shows some of these buildings today or whenever the gov't took the pictures. That is the store where they now sell boats. I loved going there, especially in the summer because when you stepped out of 100 degree heat into that air conditioning, it was heaven. There was a marina store in my mother's neighborhood. Eventually, I would see the Pacific but no Oakland, just RTC San Diego and NAS El Centro. Stuck Living in central Arkansas, you don't see much ocean or anything close to it and these stores gave me a connection to the great cities of the west coast and the great Pacific Ocean. There were no other buildings like them around.
Since then, almost every store taken over from Safeway has closed, due to Harvest Foods going bankrupt and selling out to Affiliated Foods who then dumped most of the old Safeway's and built smaller stores.īack in the 60's and 70's, there wasn't a whole lot of beautiful buildings in Arkansas to look at but I really admired those Marina Safeways. One became a funeral home, one became a thrift store, ironically, a marina store became a boat dealer store. They kept most of the stores, just changing the signs and brands that were stocked. After I was discharged in 92 I returned home but there was no more Safeway.
It was my favorite grocery store until I left for the Navy in 85. I know most of the discussion is about Safeway in CA but I hope someone will find this interesting. I haven't read much in the discussions about Arkansas so I hope someone enjoys reading this. My name is Robert and I love this site, especially reading about Safeway. 1 per customer, good while supplies last.Hello everyone.
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