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.
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
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.
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."
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.
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
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.
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!
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."