– Safeway: seemed like they were on every corner in the 1980s, until one day they weren’t! They left the market in (I believe) 1987, and most of their locations were either picked up by competitors or turned to other uses. Cannot possibly a Tom Thumb store in those neighborhoods today! Accordingly, it’s interesting to look on this map and see they had once stores in South Oak Cliff, West Dallas and Pleasant Grove. When Tom Thumb closed a store, it usually meant the neighborhood was starting to turn south. – Tom Thumb: then regarded as the “nicest” chain, with stores located mostly in affluent areas. When I was growing up in the 1980s, our big chains were: Thanks for putting this together! This is really comprehensive (just a shame it doesn’t also include some of the close-in suburbs, like Richardson, Irving, Carrollton, Garland – although I know they weren’t listed in city directories.) I was born in 1981, so I missed the days of A&P in Dallas – but I remember Safeway very well.
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