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580 Clarke Road, Coquitlam, BC.
Description of Historic Place:
The Safeway Store is a one-storey concrete block building with a gull-wing roof and an area of extensive glazing on the front facade. It is located behind its large, street-level parking lot on a busy commercial street in the Burquitlam area of the Lower Mainland.
Heritage Value:
This Safeway Store is important for its cultural significance, its innovative construction technique, and its landmark status.
The Safeway Store is representative of a number of stores built by the company in the Lower Mainland, instantly recognizable for particular design characteristics. Typically, these stores were large, with curtain-wall glazing facing the street, and were sited behind sizeable parking lots. They supported substantial signage both on the building and on free-standing supports at the front of the property. Above all, their distinctive gull-wing roof form employed arching glue-laminated timber beams. This Safeway Store stands out as a neighbourhood landmark because it is one of the last buildings in the Safeway chain with unaltered roof lines. The Modernist qualities of the building indicate an important shift in suburban consumer behaviour in the 1950s and 1960s, away from reliance on small local grocers, butchers and bakers towards one-stop self-serve shopping, accessed via the automobile.
The use of ancillary loading docks is an indicator of the increased reliance on fleets of company-owned semi-trailers for delivering foodstuffs from centralized depots. Extensive regional and national road construction after World War II enabled trucking to be increasingly employed as a means of goods distribution. The tenancy of government-owned liquor outlets associated with Safeway Stores is also indicative of changes in marketing strategies during this time period.
The construction technique of the Safeway Store illustrates material and technological advancements of the 1960s, characteristic of Modernist practices of the time. Its glue-laminated wood beams, supported by slender structural steel posts, allow for the planning of large uninterrupted interior spaces, efficient for light-filled multi-aisled layouts. Other technologically inspired elements include automatic doors facilitating the development of the self-serve shopping and efficient fluorescent tube lighting. Finishes used in the 1960s, typical of Modernist buildings, are readily recognized on Safeway Stores of this era.
Character-Defining Elements:
The character-defining elements of the Safeway Store include:
Siting, Context, and Landscape
- Setback from commercial street beyond large parking lot, with easy, level access to front doors
Architectural Qualities
- Open interior space under gull-wing roof
- Open airy atmosphere due to expanse of windows in front facade
- Large scale and mass of the building
Architectural Elements
- Curved glue-laminated roof beams of the gull-wing shaped roof
- Unembellished fluorescent tube lighting of main space
- Glass curtain wall in front facade
- Automatic doors
- Stone facing
- Subtle concrete block detailing on the east (rear) facade
- Large 'Safeway' sign lettering
Landscape Elements
- Loading dock at southern end of building
- Free-standing sign at Clarke Drive to west of site
- Evergreen foundation planting along west facade
The Sony PlayStation Store, apperantly, is getting a revamp! About time.
EDIT: Confirmed for early April. Yay.
Antiques galore line the shelves and cabinets at the Peoples Store.
Harold Warp's Pioneer Village
138 US-6
Minden, Nebraska
Kearney County, USA.
July 16, 2008
This Albertsons closed down earlier this year. It was one of 4 local locations to be shut down the past couple of years. Funny enough no Safeways in the area closed. A true sign of the times
This is pretty much what an abandoned store looks like. I really want to get in there, but don't want to get arrrested. Weird to not be able to go in there, I used to shop in there all the time. In fact my wife worked there for a few months.
Any ideas to get in there without throwing any alarms ?
The Floor Store (18,020 square feet)
1281 Carmia Way, Chesterfield Marketplace, Richmond, VA
This store opened in February 2020 and relocated here in summer 2022; it was originally a Kids R Us, which opened in September 1998 (originally located here) and closed in 2003. It became Where Ya Bin on June 20th, 2025.
I repainted his eyebrows because I hated how angry he looked before. Now he looks handsome and probably more like "Ken" lol but it is better in my opinion. Tried to create a better fringe but since his hair is so short, it kind of gets hard to style. Anyway, I hope you really like it. :P
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I dont know whether these are my new dolls for 2014 or my last new dolls for 2013, technically they arrived before New years but I only managed to pick them up from the Post Office today, I have not seen the movie yet but I cannot wait to see it! And of course I cannot wait to free these dolls from their boxed prison, I will definitely have to take a picture of new dolls with the rest of the disney princesses in my collection.
Sun Jewel Barbie was one of the very first barbies I got as a kid, and is the first barbie I ever bought with my own money too! I bought Sun Jewel barbie on a trip with my family to Australia back in the early 90s, I was actually wanting to buy Shani but she was not in the toy store so I had to settle for barbie instead, finally almost 20 years later I finally have a Sun Jewel Shani! I still have my original Sun Jewel Barbie too, I might take a picture of Shani and Barbie together.
This little store in Coquitlam BC, a Vancouver suburb will probably one day become the site of a huge condominium complex. Two towers are going up on the other side of the trees in behind the store. What was once a tiny little place, out grew itself and an addition was built on the left side which is now the entrance to the store rather than the closer door. With the new building going on around Glen Store, the original owner could never have dreamed how valuable his little store would become.
There was a time when most towns sported a carving like this outside the store that carried the cigar supply. Different times, different ideas, but this is still a great carving on sale in Branson's Grand Village.
After almost ANOTHER year of visitng this store, they have FINALLY taken the site to store sign that was hanging from the ceiling, cut the "restrooms" tag from the bottom, and placed the sign OVER the Layaway sign...finally...
Former A&P Food Store on Scott Street in Riverside NJ, divided into three spaces. It moved to Fairview Street in the early 1960s.
This store was located somewhere near 45th and Gladstone in Vancouver. I went back recently to try to find the spot but couldn't. Unusual mid-block store. I took this photo late 80's early 90's.
Photograph taken on January 7, 2009 of former Milliron’s Department Store that opened approximately in 1949. A few years later The Broadway Department Store chain took over this site and it was a Broadway Department Store until the early 1990s. The Broadway disposed of this location. Mervyns took over the site, gutted the interior, remodeled the interior, removed the rooftop parking, as well as an escalator tower and stairs that led to the roof. Located in Westchester California on Sepulveda and LaTijera. Los Angeles California. In 2008, Mervyns announced that they were closing down all of their stores. This former Mervyns Department Store closed down in early January 2009. Originally, when this was a Broadway, you could drive up to the roof for parking via a ramp. The ramp has been sealed off after Mervyns took over the buliding. Photo of inside of closed Mervyns Store.
Located across the street from the former Mervyns is another Shopping Center. In this center is a Longs Drugs and a Ralphs Supermarket. In 2008 CVS Pharmacy Stores puchased the Longs Drug Store Chain. In early April 2009, the Longs Drug Store changed its name to CVS Pharmacy. The CVS Pharmacy is located Ralphs Westchester at Sepulveda at Westchester Parkway, near Lincoln (sort-of) in Los Angeles, California. Ralphs Westchester was builts first, due to its success, Longs Drugs was then built next door. About a block down the street, at Lincoln is another CVS Pharmacy, formerly a Sav-on Drug Store. The cashier at the new CVS store said they were keeping both CVS Stores. Also in this shopping center is Pet Co (former JJ Newberrys then Flax Art Store, now sub divided into Petco, Tuesday Morning and misc. Shops.
In the shopping center connected to the former Mervyns Department Store is the other CVS Pharmacy Store, a former Sav-on Drug Store. This other CVS Pharmacy store is located in a companion shopping center and separtated by less than a mile from the former Longs now CSW Store. In this shopping center is Trader Joes Market, CVS Pharmacy Store, TJ Maxx (former JC Penny Department Store), Pandera Bakery, Hometown Buffet, some misc. shops.
my papercraft 3 3/4" action figure record store. made all the counters out of foamboard. then printed and made all the little records and flyers.
Disney Store #920
2700 Potomac Mills Circle, Suite 612, Potomac Mills, Woodbridge, VA
Previously Disney Catalog Outlet
On the streets of Huasca de Ocampo.
The town shows its country farm and ranch side by the types of stores and items for purchase. Anyone need some baled straw?
this is what I bought last time I went to the Lego store (this summer). the reason that I post it so late is that I forgot about the photo's and recently found them back.
most thinks are for construction or for water, besides that I also got 4 exo suits, three to sell and one to keep and a lot of wheels for a scrapyard project I want to do in the future.
to everyone that hasn't already got a exosuit I say, be fast with buying one because this can't stay out of your collection for it is such a nice build (it's just like building a moc with all the nice techniques and everything).
Taken during a road trip when my son and I happened upon a Toys R Us along the way home. This store was near Tupelo, MS. At the time the chain was closing stores across the country.
Stored NGR units, from Left to Right, 715, 720, 702, 701 sit in Redbank Workshops awaiting their turn to begin Comissioning testing at Wulkuraka. Diesel locomotive 1720 is seen next to 715 shunting around the yard. NGR715 was involved in a derailment at Wulkuraka and sustained reasonable damage and is awaiting assessment and a decision on its repairs.
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The area known as Midway Mills, near the James River, was the first settled area (1774) of what is now Nelson County, Virginia (having been Goochland, Albemarle and then Amherst County). Sometime in the early 20th or perhaps late 19th century, quarrying began in the area, producing sandstone for building purposes (flagstone). I located part of what exists—down some dirt back roads of Nelson County. The mining community had its own post office and store. Apparently there are few signs of the mining area or community still existent. This was the old store—my informant said the trash can had been in the building for several years. Recently added, after the fact, to Explore for May 16, 2012 at #366--I'm grateful for Explore but I just don't understand why this photo.
Not a very informative article at Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_Mills,_Virginia
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