This picture is a little repetitive, but I like how you can see a bunch of the store's local flair aisle names. Since this is in east Puyallup, basically all of the street names have "East" in them -- it's a bit strange how they wrote it out in full on every one of them while abbreviating "Ave".
While this may not be the most exciting picture, it is number 6,000 on the blog! I'm amazed I've made it this far, and I have much further to go, to the tune of over 5,500 photos still in the good ol' backlog -- 2,000 of which are just from this year, thanks to that insane road trip I did back in the spring.
Congrats on picture number 6,000! Perhaps it is fitting that a landmark photo number is of something rare in your area, Safeway Modern aisle markers with street names! It sounds like you have a lot more blogging to do if you end up putting up all 5,500 photos in the backlog so that'll be interesting to see. You might soon get to the point where the backlog is bigger than the number of photos posted!
ReplyDeleteA bit off-topic, but you've probably heard me mention before that when I was at the Cully Neighborhood Albertsons in Portland, I noticed that the dairy case didn't have doors and was just a cut-out in the walls with rolling carts of milk. I thought this was quite bizarre and I can't remember if Blue & Grey Market era Albertsons were built that way. Certainly Kroger has doors on similar era Krogertsons here in Houston. Anyway, I found a photo from 2016 of that Cully Albertsons with the old Heritage decor and you can kind of see what I'm talking about with the dairy case: https://s3-media0.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/tnv1ilq4uPTfve7SUmrjiw/o.jpg
Here's a neat photo of the same store from 2012 showing the front-end: https://s3-media0.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/DN_mJsifIbybZJTEDUsBig/o.jpg
Thanks! That's for sure -- my spreadsheet tells me I have about 4 and a half years of posts to go, even if I were to never visit another store! For years, my backlog was larger than my number of posted stores, but that changed within the last year or two and it had actually been trending down until this year (and I expect that it will continue trending down for the foreseeable future, since there isn't all that much of interest left in the Seattle area and I don't have any more retail road trips currently planned).
DeleteThat is a very weird milk case! All of the Blue and Grey Market stores I've ever seen had a standard milk walk-in with doors, and I know the Port Angeles one (a relatively early example even) was that way from the start. By the way, that old decor is Legacy -- Heritage is the newer, very rare package.
Yeah, right you are, that is Legacy decor, sorry. Sometimes I get mixed up on the Albertsons decor packages which came out since the time Albertsons left since I've never actually seen them in person!
DeleteActually, Heritage isn't that uncommon at Dallas and Louisiana Albertsons stores in the Southern Division. They have used it in a handful of cases (there aren't that many Albertsons left in the Southern Division anyway, but there is one more now than there was at this time last year and a new Southern Division Albertsons has been announced in Oklahoma which is being built now...it'll be the first Albertsons in OK, assuming it doesn't become a Kroger or C&S store before it opens, since they left completely a number of years ago).
Congrats on the milestone! I also totally see what Anonymous in Houston referring to as far as this store looking much more industrial than most!
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DeleteCongrats on 6,000!
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DeleteCongrats on the 6,000 photos! I guess when you factor in your flickr account, you've actually posted just shy of 7,000 photos. Keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteThanks! Being really technical about it, it would be somewhat more than that due to the handful of blog-style posts I've done, but I'm not going to get that deep into it! 🙂
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