Naney: Yeah, CVS is pretty dull; decent merchandise but high prices even compared to 7-Eleven. :P Safeway, which is not exactly cheap itself, is still cheaper than CVS.
Personally, I miss the old, pre-CVS Peoples Drug. Especially the older ones with the turnstiles and the do-it-yourself tube tester (there was a Standard Drug in Charlottesville that had one of those as late as the late 1980s).
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I have vague memories of a Revco in Westerville that later became a CVS. When I was like 4 I liked to walk around the store while my dad was picking up prescriptions...the floor was a dark grey carpet.
I barely even remember Revco, besides the fact that there was one at Pantops Center in Charlottesville, just down the street from the Food Lion. I actually remember Phar-Mor better, and that store's been gone for years.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I have vague memories of being in a Phar-Mor on OH 161 when I was 3 or so with my mother and the neighbor girl and her mother. They bought us each some Fruit Stripe gum, which was the only kind I was allowed to have at the time.
And on the topic of defunct pharmacy chains, I have another vague memory, from when I was 6 or so, of my parents taking me to buy bubble bath at Drug Emporium (also on OH 161). At the time 161 was lined with restaurants, but the one we had wanted to go to turned out to be closed, so we decided to just stop and buy bubble bath and go home.
Wow, Drug Emporium. They used to be all over the place, and I think there used to be one in Centreville, but it's been ages since then.
As for others around here, there used to be an F&M Drugstore in Manassas, in the same shopping center as a Trak Auto, an Evans catalog showroom and a Crown Books. I suspect it was a Dart Drug at some point, since Trak, Dart and Crown were all owned by Haft at one point -- Trak was swallowed by Advance, Crown is gone, and so is Evans (the space was taken over by a Food Lion).
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I always found it odd that from my childhood (the 1990s) to now so many drugstore chains have been bought out or simply gone out of business: Revco, Phar-Mor, Drug Emporium, SupeRx...
I thought SupeRx was the coolest name for a store when I was little. I seem to remember there being at least one of either that or one of the JCPenney-owned chains in Huntington somewhere.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Heh, so did I! I was always all "SupeRx! SupeRx, Mommy! Let's go to SupeRx!" and she'd be like "I don't need to go to SupeRx" and I'd be like "but...SupeRx!"
Also...I remember that I'd never seen a Rite Aid outside of WV and Kentucky for years until we moved back up here. It turns out Rite Aid had bought Drugfair not long after we'd left for Charlottesville (1987).
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I remember, when I was about 5, there was a very old Kroger store on Robinwood Avenue in Whitehall, Ohio. It was one of the older stores that had originally had a grocery store and a separate drugstore in the same building. The drugstore portion of the building was empty, but it had an obvious labelscar of the Rite Aid logo.
One day my parents and I were in the parking lot and I was like "Daddy, I know what that used to be! It was a Rite Aid!" and Dad was like "...How would you even know that?" and Mother was like "Well, he can see where the Rite Aid sign used to be, silly!"
There's a CVS at Glebe and Pershing in Arlington that was obviously a Rite Aid at one point in its life, since one of its signs is in the telltale Rite Aid shield shape.
That and I remember when that CVS was a Drugfair, whose fate I already mentioned. Drugfair used to be all over the place here, and apparently their stores were huge because the old Drugfair space at Manassas Shopping Center was split up into like three different stores (one of which used to be the Rite Aid until they moved to a new outparcel store not far from there).
Back in the old Clifton Country Mall, which is that mall I loved so much because of its totally haphazard design, one of the wings led off to some anchor store but before you got there there was a CVS on the right. I think this was after you got to the corner with the toy store and turned right.
Went in there a few times. Don't remember much, except one time I saw a tabloid with a cover story about "The Moon Landing Never Happened" (gee, that's a new one). They also had gray carpeting that I disliked.
(This is not for you. I'm just mentioning it for my own enjoyment)
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I went over today and got some pictures of the exterior of a vacant Target Greatland store off Brice Road. This location opened in the late '80s or very early '90s and operated until 2008, when it was replaced with a regular Target store on SR 256 in Reynoldsburg.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Maybe.
Also I imagine it's cheaper to have a basic sign like that made than having the whole logo custom-made. Budget considerations?
AU: It's probably a very old sign; back in the 1950s and 1960s, it was rare to see a station's name set up in anything other than basic Linotype faces (Alternate Gothic, Metro, etc.)
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
WBNS's building has had the same sign for as long as I can remember. It certainly predates the station's current logo--I remember my mother pointing it out to me as a small child, and that would have been the early '90s.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Good observation.
The picture was taken on 4 September 2008...anyone important die around that time?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Here are a few photos of a Kroger store in Reynoldsburg, Ohio. Specifically, it's a 1960s-era "superstore" that's been updated many, many times over the years. The store is rather small by today's standards and the layout seems a bit erratic.
All in all, not a bad little store. The current decor is rather ugly (as are most Krogers around here) but at the same time it is one of the oldest grocery stores on the East Side and it's a neat little piece of history, if you know what you're looking for.
Hey CA, we got something really odd in the mail at work not too long ago -- a solicitation to rent space at Manassas Mall, direct from Vornado. It's interesting how they try to polish the turd there, I must say. XD
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Yeah, a few years ago at least. I don't know if the new Walmart has changed things any, but I do know that the south wing of the mall was a ghost town after Sears moved to the old Montgomery Ward space on the northwest side.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Now I'm thinking of Southland Mall in Marion, Ohio. I never went in there myself, but my family did once and they said it was like a ghost town. (Though they apparently still had a video game store in operation at that time, which was 2005 or 2006?)
They've since renamed it "Marion Centre", but it doesn't seem to have changed much.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I want to walk down that bike path. It looks like fun.
...You know, I've never been to your part of the country.
Also that backlit "Alameda" street sign is awesome. You don't find many signs like that around here.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I've always liked backlit street signs.
The only place I know of in Central Ohio that uses them regularly is the City of Dublin, and theirs aren't nearly as cool.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
State Route 3 in Columbus. I used to hate those traffic light setups with the single diagonal span wire, but now I think there's a certain charm to them.
More of State Route 3. Route 3 was originally called the "3-C Highway", because it was the only highway to run through Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Columbus (though nowadays Interstate 71 does as well).
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I had some time to waste while waiting for pizza earlier so I went and wandered a Kroger in Gahanna, Ohio.'
It's a fairly typical mid-'90s Kroger store, and while it has unfortunately been updated with that same ugly decor as every other Kroger around here, its setup reminds me strongly of one my family shopped at as a child.
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i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Why do I remember this random shit?
And on the topic of defunct pharmacy chains, I have another vague memory, from when I was 6 or so, of my parents taking me to buy bubble bath at Drug Emporium (also on OH 161). At the time 161 was lined with restaurants, but the one we had wanted to go to turned out to be closed, so we decided to just stop and buy bubble bath and go home.
One day my parents and I were in the parking lot and I was like "Daddy, I know what that used to be! It was a Rite Aid!" and Dad was like "...How would you even know that?" and Mother was like "Well, he can see where the Rite Aid sign used to be, silly!"
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Went in there a few times. Don't remember much, except one time I saw a tabloid with a cover story about "The Moon Landing Never Happened" (gee, that's a new one). They also had gray carpeting that I disliked.
(This is not for you. I'm just mentioning it for my own enjoyment)
The sign for the shopping center proudly displays the last few operating stores alongside a very noticeable Target labelscar. (If you look closely you can see another labelscar where "TARGET CENTER" was later changed to just "TARGET".)
The whole store, as viewed from across the parking lot. The parking lot is in surprisingly good condition, considering it's sat unmaintained since 2008.
Both entrances are completely walled off. Here's the eastern one, which would have been near electronics and the customer service desk.
A farther shot of the east entrance. The red accents were originally blue on one entrance and green on the other, but unfortunately I can't remember which was which. (Both were painted red in the store's later years of operation.)
The center of the building, where the "TARGET Greatland" sign would have been mounted. They attempted to paint over the labelscar but it's still just barely visible.
The store's western entrance. This would have been near the pharmacy and personal care products, as well as the "Food Avenue" cafe.
From the same shopping center:
A vacant Best Buy, which also moved to a new location on SR 256. In the years between Best Buy's moving and Target's moving, this store was used seasonally as a Halloween shop.
Another empty store. I believe this one was a LifeWay Christian bookstore, though I'd never been inside.
WBNS-TV's building and tower, as seen from Interstate 670.
Unusually wide numerals on an OH-745 marker; also the City of Dublin reminds us which season it is.
A noticeably off-model OH-161 marker. It looks as if someone took an actual outline of the state of Ohio instead of the simplified version used for most route signs.
This Kroger store in Dublin has "KROGER" spelled out in Arial instead of the typical Kroger wordmark...I don't get it.
Sun TV was an Columbus-based electronics retailer. They went out of business in 1998, but this shopping center still bears their name and logo.
A rather fat-looking Interstate 70 shield on a temporary construction sign.
More temporary signs. This one has an I-70 shield on a white square.
Blank signs over a closed-off portion of Interstate 670.
Poorly patched "EXIT ONLY" with arrows on an I-71 sign.
Mistake that was too expensive to fix once the letters had already been sculpted, maybe?
Also I imagine it's cheaper to have a basic sign like that made than having the whole logo custom-made. Budget considerations?
Also, maybe they're just new, but all the Denver stations' buildings have their logos as signage. (KMGH-TV's building is the oldest; they moved into it in 1969 and its current sign dates to around 1999 or so.)
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
The picture was taken on 4 September 2008...anyone important die around that time?
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
The dairy aisle, with "Fresh Dairy" sign.
The other end of the dairy aisle, near the bakery and deli.
In the back of the store, looking toward the dairy aisle. Note the walls' very rounded corner, which indicates this store had once been retrofitted with the "greenhouse" decor in the '70s.
The back aisle of the store.
Looking down the shampoo aisle toward the meat/seafood counter.
Aisle sign. Same style as nearly all the Kroger stores around here.
The diaper aisle, har har
All in all, not a bad little store. The current decor is rather ugly (as are most Krogers around here) but at the same time it is one of the oldest grocery stores on the East Side and it's a neat little piece of history, if you know what you're looking for.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
They've since renamed it "Marion Centre", but it doesn't seem to have changed much.
A bunch of stuff off the end of the bike path farthest from the house, taken on January 25, 2012.
A Town Center at Aurora sign, from January 28, 2012. (This was taken from the parking lot of the nearby T.G.I. Friday's.)
A Chicago Bulls cap I own, probably from the 90s or so.
...You know, I've never been to your part of the country.
Also that backlit "Alameda" street sign is awesome. You don't find many signs like that around here.
The only place I know of in Central Ohio that uses them regularly is the City of Dublin, and theirs aren't nearly as cool.
An abandoned Value City Department Store on OH 3 in Columbus. This one appeared to have been attached directly to the Value City distribution center, oddly enough.
A closer shot of the store's boarded up entrance.
State Route 3 in Columbus. I used to hate those traffic light setups with the single diagonal span wire, but now I think there's a certain charm to them.
More of State Route 3. Route 3 was originally called the "3-C Highway", because it was the only highway to run through Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Columbus (though nowadays Interstate 71 does as well).
I finally got a decent shot of one of Gahanna's wooden post street signs.
An old-fashioned "WALK"/"DONT WALK" signal in Gahanna. Unfortunately many of the few of these left are damaged; this one is missing a visor.
Morse Road in Columbus. This section of the road is filled with dead car dealerships.
Reynoldsburg, Ohio seal on a lamppost. Somehow I never noticed these lampposts had these on them until today.
Also I don't think I've come across lampposts with city seals on them myself.
It's a fairly typical mid-'90s Kroger store, and while it has unfortunately been updated with that same ugly decor as every other Kroger around here, its setup reminds me strongly of one my family shopped at as a child.
Looking toward the front of the store from the office supply aisle.
"Luncheon Meat" sign and the back aisle of the store.
Looking down a random aisle.
The aisle signs are a bit different than what I'm used to seeing; for comparison, here's a more common style (from the Reynoldsburg store).
Soft drink aisle and "Milk & Juices" sign.
These seem to be the original 1990s freezer units; I don't know of any other Krogers around here that still have those.
The front of the store has an upstairs section for employees only. I always wanted to go upstairs in the store where my family used to shop but I never got to.