N-Land Pacific Model RR Club Open House Below is a notice from Jeff Butler at the N-Land Pacific Model Railroad Club. This club is Southern California's...
Here is a link to an article that originally appeared in the Winter 1971 issue of 1001 MODEL RAILROADING IDEAS. It describes the Southern California N scale...
Here is a layout tour notice from the San Diego Division/PSR/NMRA. You do not have to be a member to go on the tour. Bob Chaparro Moderator +++++ SAN DIEGO...
I'm in the process of building an Alpine Division Scale Models store (an old Suydam style kit) that will be a hardware store. Below is a photo link of it next...
A good name from that time would be Clark Dye Hardware. This was a really great independent hardware store located on South Main Street in Santa Ana. I'm...
Von's and Ralph's would work fine for your Grocery store. There were a lot of independent stores in the same time frame too, so you might want to go that ...
Orchard would be the wrong name. It started in 1931 in San Jose as a farm supplies cooperative. It became the "hardware" store in the 1950s. The first store...
... I'm only 8 years older than you, but Los Angeles/So Cal history is one of my passions...for supermarkets, you can't go wrong with Ralphs or Vons. We also...
I don't remember chain hardware stores here in LA until the mid 1970's. Builders Emporium being one that I remember as being the first in So Cal. Until then...
I was searching on Goolge images and found this beautiful color photo of a Stater Brothers (possibly in San Bernardino) http://i.imgur.com/KUABA.jpg I'm...
Have you tried Ace H/W? http://www.acehardware.com/corp/index.jsp?page=history M. McKeever, MSgt USMC (Ret) The true soldier fights not because he hates what...
... Here are some more ideas: From the Orange Public Library: Orange: Acme Quality Paint Hardware: http://tinyurl.com/64vjbn9 Orange: Kogler Hardware:...
For hardware stores you can using various names. In Bell where i grew up there was a hardware store call Farrings. They converted to Toy store before I was...
I believe Piggly Wiggly was in SoCal in that time frame. They were indpendent franchisees but used PW as a common purchasing group, The one my grandparents...
More OC hardware stores from the 1950 Northern Orange County City Directory: Brea Hardware Co Rreck Hardware (Fullerton) Buena Park Hardware Co Chambers...
I used to work for a home improvement chain named "Handy Andy" in Chicago. I do remember a trade magazine called Home Center. They would have listings for any...
Got a little sidetracked from the hardware store today and started work on turning Ed's Market into a Stater Bros. http://i.imgur.com/gOhd6.jpg ...
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Oct 3, 2011 5:10 am
A&P was also out there until 1968 ... From: Bob C <thecitrusbelt@...> Subject: [Model_Railroads_Of_Southern_California] Re: Southern Clifornia hardware...
Yes, hardware stores tended to be mostly one-store, local operations in the 50's. BUT, you could use signs from major suppliers on the outside of a hardware...
A well known grocery chain in the fifties was Mayfair. They even had foods with theit brand. Also I remember Knox Haedware on E. 4th st in Santa Ana. ...
... I searched the three directories that I have for central and northern Orange County in the 1949-51 time period and the only chain markets I could find...
This has been like a Trip Down memory Lane. My wife and I have really enjoyed hearing the names of stores from long ago. She more then I. Wife from the Fairfax...
... moved into OC. According to their website, Stater Bros. first OC store was Costa Mesa in 1960. http://www.staterbros.com/BottomMenu/Company/History.aspx...
In the San Fernando Valley there was Neiman-Reed Lumber Co. In the front of the property there was a store for the hardware and in back was a full on lumber...
