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Thriftimart
Thriftimart was an American chain of supermarkets in Greater Los Angeles until 1984, founded by Roger M. Laverty. Many stores continue to operate as Smart & Final stores, now owned by Mexico City-based Chedraui. As Fitzsimmons Markets, Ltd. (1930-1957) Roger Montgomery Laverty was born in 1890 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1930, Laverty was vice president of the Central Division of the A&P, the largest U.S. grocery chain at the time. He and a group of colleagues bought Fitzsimmons Stores, Ltd., a small Los Angeles chain of markets. In 1939, Fitzsimmons acquired 9 Thriftimart stores, then in 1947, Laverty bought Thriftimart Inc. and the combined company kept the Fitzsimmons Stores, Ltd. name. In 1948, sales at Fitzsimmons Stores Ltd. amounted to $19,931,475. In 1949, Fitzsimmons Stores Ltd. acquired Fred Roberts & Co. which operated Roberts Markets, a 19-store Los Angeles-based chain, as well as 15 liquor stores. Roberts' 1948 sales were $18,889,948, just under Fitzsimmons' num ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Owl
The Owl Drug Company was an American drugstore retailer with its headquarters in San Francisco that operated the Owl Drug Stores chain. It was a subsidiary of Rexall stores at its peak in the 1920s through 1940s. The Owl Drug Stores sold medicines and pills, and later ventured into cosmetics, perfumes, and other goods. History The founder of the Owl Drug Company was Richard Elgin Miller, R.E. Miller. The Owl Drug Company was established in 1892 in San Francisco, at 1128 Market Street (San Francisco), Market Street. In 1903, with their contract with the Whitall Tatum Company, Whitall Tatum Glass Company, they began making triangular, cobalt-blue bottles of various sizes to store poisons in, which was widely emulated. According to the book ''Old Owl Drug Bottles & Others'' (1968), Owl Drug created a variety of bottles for prescription medicine and pills, and also soda bottles, with an owl sitting atop a mortar and pestle molded into the glass. The bottles were produced in various si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
