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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

"Driving" down La Brea on Google Street View, these images fade into each other....

Fading is an understatement.

Sticking with the immediate vicinity I am struck by the number of Grocery Stores that have come and gone. Evidently, across the street from the Chrysler dealership, there was at one time an A&P on 449 S. La Brea and a Safeway at 459 S. La Brea. And a Safeway at 360 and 180 S. La Brea. This suggests some of the stores were on wheels probably supplied by the nearby Auto Dealers (like the current crop of rolling lunch wagons?) Fascinating how Safeway, Piggly Wiggly and A&P seemed to predominate.

An interesting and lengthy list of Los Angeles Grocery Store locations can be found here: http://www.groceteria.com/spreadsheets/LA.csv Many of the addressed have been touched on this Forum.

For example:

Wilshire Blvd.: 3647, Carty Bros; 3716, A&P; 4101, Young's Thriftimart; 5203, MacMarr; 5318, Piggly Wiggly; 5413, A&P; 5623, Ralphs; 5653, Safeway; 8322, Safeway; 9383, Safeway; 11907 Safeway

La Brea: 116, (N) Safeway; 401, (N) Carty Bros; 624, (N) MacMarr Safeway,Safeway; 1259,(N) Contintental Stores; 1639,(N) MacMarr Safeway; 180, (S) Safeway; 360, (S) Safeway; 449, (S) A&P
459, (S) Safeway; 1044 (S) Piggly Wiggly; 1150, (S) Caler Grocery Co.

The list does not contain a reference to a Grocery Store that existed in the Town & Country Village at Third and Fairfax, where Whole Foods now sits. (6000 Block of Third?) It has probably served under many different corporate flags, but I choose to remember it as apost-noir Market Basket, [B]where the food never spoiled, the produce never bruised and every shopping experience was drama free and color coordinated.[/B]

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