I worked at the A&P on Forest Ln in high school, I remember a quarter tip for loading your groceries in your car was enough to buy a gallon of gas. On Saturdays you could earn enough to get a half a tank, enough to cruise Forest and Marsh Saturday night.
Yep ! Back then people could smoke indoors almost anywhere and that 18 now it's 21 law didn't exist at that time a kid could buy a pack of cigarettes back in the day with no problem.
The car exhaust and pollution in general was much worse as well. You got used to it. Whenever an old 60's/70's classic car goes by today and I get a whiff of that exhaust , it bring back memories. It smelled like that everywhere especially in cities.
@@meljam51 yes, recall that one, near Titches and El Chico I loved that area. My big sister used to take me shopping at Lochwood and I developed my shopping habit there..lol
That’s not the Safeway on Marsalis, it is slightly different and smaller. All Safeway stores looked like that back then. They all had the same arch. This could be any store in Dallas. There are multiple old Safeway stores that still look like this that are still standing.
It could be that - it wasn't uncommon for WFAA to come to Lakewood to film things like this. Also, this was around the time that Safeway built their new store (the building there now, that backs up to Richmond), behind the old Safeway. Once the new Safeway was finished, they demolished the old one. Next to the old Safeway, on the Gaston side, was a Fishburn's Cleaners, and a Conoco station. Both of those were taken down after the old Safeway went. When Safeway left Texas, the store became a Minyards, then later Whole Foods.
Actually it was the corporate raiders who drove Safeway out of DFW, along with Houston, Oklahoma and elsewhere, as high debt forced corporate to sell. Now Safeway is back, only now under the Tom Thumb and Albertsons names. My mom shopped the Safeway at Avenue K and 18th Street in Plano, but later switched to the new Tom Thumb at 14th Street and Jupiter Road before moving to Corpus Christi and H-E-B. My brothers in Denver and Seattle carry on the Safeway tradition.
@@gregsells8549 You could be right but my Aunts worked for Safeway in 1979 and both were making over $20.00 an hour and they backed the union in demanding higher wages. It was 1979 with cashiers making $20.00 an hour and the union wanted more. My Aunts attitude was - lets ride this demand if they give in we live the sweet life. If they dont give in we quit and become housewives. My recall was that the unions demands were too high and everyone knew it.
I met the woman that was in the union at the time, she was going to east field college, she said the vote went not as expected and Safeway shutdown the hole operations.
I worked at the A&P on Forest Ln in high school, I remember a quarter tip for loading your groceries in your car was enough to buy a gallon of gas. On Saturdays you could earn enough to get a half a tank, enough to cruise Forest and Marsh Saturday night.
Where was this A&P? Used to be a Wyatt's on Forest @marsh By the movie theater.
Southeast corner of Forest and Webb Chapel.
Across from (old) Northtown Mall, before my time, do remember the Golf putting Range ,
Thanks for sharing some knowledge on what may have happened to Safeway. I always wondered what happened.
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Yep ! Back then people could smoke indoors almost anywhere and that 18 now it's 21 law didn't exist at that time a kid could buy a pack of cigarettes back in the day with no problem.
People also used to smoke in hospitals, airplanes
and theaters
The car exhaust and pollution in general was much worse as well. You got used to it. Whenever an old 60's/70's classic car goes by today and I get a whiff of that exhaust , it bring back memories. It smelled like that everywhere especially in cities.
Yep, I got burned by a careless woman at a Tom Thumb back in 81/82.
I loved Safeway
We had one on Ferguson and Shiloh near our house.
Had one on Samuell and Jim Miller.
Had one at Jupiter & Garland Rds.
@@meljam51 yes, recall that one, near Titches and El Chico
I loved that area. My big sister used to take me shopping at Lochwood and I developed my shopping habit there..lol
outstanding
It's a shame monsanto poisoned all the grain & corn with glyphosate.
this safeway still stands , it's on marsalis
OMG
I thought that was it! Thanks for the confirmation.
That’s not the Safeway on Marsalis, it is slightly different and smaller. All Safeway stores looked like that back then. They all had the same arch. This could be any store in Dallas. There are multiple old Safeway stores that still look like this that are still standing.
Our Safeway was at Inwood and Lovers Lane
Ours was at Forest @Inwood By the K-Mart ( Now Lowe's)
Miss Safeway went there a lot growing up in the UK in the nearest branch where we lived in London the Wimbledon branch
Where was this store?
130 bucks back then was a butt load of money. Wow.
Sure looks like the Safeway in Lakewood - now Whole Foods.
It could be that - it wasn't uncommon for WFAA to come to Lakewood to film things like this. Also, this was around the time that Safeway built their new store (the building there now, that backs up to Richmond), behind the old Safeway. Once the new Safeway was finished, they demolished the old one. Next to the old Safeway, on the Gaston side, was a Fishburn's Cleaners, and a Conoco station. Both of those were taken down after the old Safeway went.
When Safeway left Texas, the store became a Minyards, then later Whole Foods.
@@sharkinstx thanks for the information. I only knew the location as Minyard's and now Whole Foods
Inflation sucks!!
Was this during the pricing and problems with the meat safeway had?
:25 I didn’t know Dwight Schrute was a checker in the DFW area then
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The unions drove Safeway out of DFW - must have been the early 80's.
Actually it was the corporate raiders who drove Safeway out of DFW, along with Houston, Oklahoma and elsewhere, as high debt forced corporate to sell. Now Safeway is back, only now under the Tom Thumb and Albertsons names. My mom shopped the Safeway at Avenue K and 18th Street in Plano, but later switched to the new Tom Thumb at 14th Street and Jupiter Road before moving to Corpus Christi and H-E-B. My brothers in Denver and Seattle carry on the Safeway tradition.
@@gregsells8549 You could be right but my Aunts worked for Safeway in 1979 and both were making over $20.00 an hour and they backed the union in demanding higher wages. It was 1979 with cashiers making $20.00 an hour and the union wanted more. My Aunts attitude was - lets ride this demand if they give in we live the sweet life. If they dont give in we quit and become housewives. My recall was that the unions demands were too high and everyone knew it.
@@sinjyn66 $20 in 1979 is about $78 today. Your aunt was making that much as a cashier?
@@wbc1 Thats what they told me - her husband was a truck driver and she made more than him.
I met the woman that was in the union at the time, she was going to east field college, she said the vote went not as expected and Safeway shutdown the hole operations.
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