Scott's Favorite - WFAA Film of a 1973 Grocery Store 

Where was this A&P? Used to be a Wyatt's on Forest @marsh By the movie theater.

Southeast corner of Forest and Webb Chapel.

Across from (old) Northtown Mall, before my time, do remember the Golf putting Range ,

Had one on Samuell and Jim Miller.

Had one at Jupiter & Garland Rds.

@@meljam51 yes, recall that one, near Titches and El Chico I loved that area. My big sister used to take me shopping at Lochwood and I developed my shopping habit there..lol

Yep ! Back then people could smoke indoors almost anywhere and that 18 now it's 21 law didn't exist at that time a kid could buy a pack of cigarettes back in the day with no problem.

People also used to smoke in hospitals, airplanes and theaters

The car exhaust and pollution in general was much worse as well. You got used to it. Whenever an old 60's/70's classic car goes by today and I get a whiff of that exhaust , it bring back memories. It smelled like that everywhere especially in cities.

Yep, I got burned by a careless woman at a Tom Thumb back in 81/82.

OMG

I thought that was it! Thanks for the confirmation.

That’s not the Safeway on Marsalis, it is slightly different and smaller. All Safeway stores looked like that back then. They all had the same arch. This could be any store in Dallas. There are multiple old Safeway stores that still look like this that are still standing.

Ours was at Forest @Inwood By the K-Mart ( Now Lowe's)

It could be that - it wasn't uncommon for WFAA to come to Lakewood to film things like this. Also, this was around the time that Safeway built their new store (the building there now, that backs up to Richmond), behind the old Safeway. Once the new Safeway was finished, they demolished the old one. Next to the old Safeway, on the Gaston side, was a Fishburn's Cleaners, and a Conoco station. Both of those were taken down after the old Safeway went. When Safeway left Texas, the store became a Minyards, then later Whole Foods.

@@sharkinstx thanks for the information. I only knew the location as Minyard's and now Whole Foods

Actually it was the corporate raiders who drove Safeway out of DFW, along with Houston, Oklahoma and elsewhere, as high debt forced corporate to sell. Now Safeway is back, only now under the Tom Thumb and Albertsons names. My mom shopped the Safeway at Avenue K and 18th Street in Plano, but later switched to the new Tom Thumb at 14th Street and Jupiter Road before moving to Corpus Christi and H-E-B. My brothers in Denver and Seattle carry on the Safeway tradition.

@@gregsells8549 You could be right but my Aunts worked for Safeway in 1979 and both were making over $20.00 an hour and they backed the union in demanding higher wages. It was 1979 with cashiers making $20.00 an hour and the union wanted more. My Aunts attitude was - lets ride this demand if they give in we live the sweet life. If they dont give in we quit and become housewives. My recall was that the unions demands were too high and everyone knew it.

@@sinjyn66 $20 in 1979 is about $78 today. Your aunt was making that much as a cashier?

@@wbc1 Thats what they told me - her husband was a truck driver and she made more than him.

I met the woman that was in the union at the time, she was going to east field college, she said the vote went not as expected and Safeway shutdown the hole operations.