Safeway Super S? I’d never heard of or seen such a thing, but there it was, in the proverbial black and white. Evidently, that wasn’t the case at all.Īs I continued through the 1966 newspapers, I spotted the following ad in an August issue-which references the mysterious “Super S” store noted in the photo caption above. I had always assumed that Dart Drug was the original tenant beside Safeway that they had been built together. The adjacent shopping center, which included Market Tire, Arundel Furniture, and Chicken Roost, among others-also another story for another time-opened in April.īut the photo also raised an interesting question, because conspicuously absent in all this was my other beloved store-Dart Drug. The Safeway on Bowie Road first opened its doors in January 1966. So, a question I’d often wondered about was finally answered. (This, of course, was the only downside to walking over to Safeway with my mom-I didn’t get to use that thing nearly as often as I would have liked, but I digress).Īdmittedly, I suspected that I might actually find a photo of the store in an earlier newspaper, I had come across this bold announcement, which included a stock illustration of a similar Safeway store (but without the aforementioned awesome roller track/conveyor belt thing). From this angle, (taken from the adjacent shopping center, which had also just opened) you can even see that awesome roller track/conveyor belt thing, which transported your groceries from the checkout counter, outside, around a hairpin curve, and to your awaiting vehicle beneath that covered driveway. But even newer, because it had just opened. So in the course of my research, when I turned the page in the Apissue of the Laurel News Leader and came to this photo-I smiled at an old friend. To this day, I occasionally have dreams in which I’m back in that store-perusing the Cragmont soda aisle and noting the vintage cash registers at the checkout counter, amongst orderly stacks of weekly magazines featuring the likes of Diff’rent Strokes and President Reagan on their covers. Until this past weekend, I hadn’t been able to find a single photo of the Safeway that I so vividly remember from childhood-before it relocated to a new and larger space at Laurel Lakes in 1985 (where it remains today).įor me, the old Safeway was the real Safeway and when it left, it was like losing an old friend. But on any given day, my mom might have decided to bake a cake or something and needing only a few select items, she and I would take a quick walk over to Safeway. For more extensive shopping, of course, my dad would drive us there (or more likely, to one of the bigger and/or cheaper stores in the area: Giant, Pantry Pride, or Basics). In fact, during the one year that we lived at 2 Woodland Court, it was literally just across the railroad tracks. In just a matter of minutes, if my mom and I were so inclined, we could walk to and from Safeway-which, at the time, was just around the corner from us on Bowie Road. While I was growing up at Steward Manor during the late 1970s and early 80s, grocery shopping was never really a problem.
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