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Oct 23Liked by Addison Del Mastro

Been to that one probably a hundred times back in the early aughts. It's amazing it has survived.

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Feb 1, 2022Liked by Addison Del Mastro

This oddly enough resembles a lot of the places where I'm at (Stamford CT). The unifying factor I guess is being an old well-established satellite city of a larger metro.

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There's still a bit of streetcar suburb DNA here, I think, even though this is after the streetcar era. I guess it's not ideal, but it's a heck of a lot better than the 100% car oriented sprawl that we built for a long time after this

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I went to that Safeway a year ago or so, and I felt oddly nostalgic. The signage inside was exactly the same as it was twenty years ago, so I was strongly reminded of going to the store with my mom.

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I don't know if the signage has been updated since then, but it doesn't look like any other Safeway I know, so it might be that old!

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I live about a mile from there. We call it the Soviet Safeway - long lines and always out of everything. They have been talking about redeveloping that site for a really long time - there was once a plan to build a 5 story mixed use apartments with the store on the bottom floor - which included getting rid of some of the houses behind it, but the neighbors got all NIMBY over it and the plan was killed.

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When we lived in the area 20 years ago, we had a friend who called this the "dirty Safeway." It never seemed dirty to me, so I suspect it was because of some inside joke of the sort of murky origins that have led us to talk about a store called "Bed Bath and Divorce."

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