Safeway Sprouse Reitz San Ramon Village Dublin,CA

            Former Safeway and Sprouse Reitz located at 7991 and 7871 Amador Valley Blvd. in Dublin,CA.  The buildings are currently occupied by a Big Lots and an independently owned shoe store operating under the name World of Shoes.  In 2005 everything but the former Safeway (now Big Lots) was covered by a stucco facade.  The shopping center was in need of some renovations and while I never like stucco on old buildings it does look better than the wood shake roof.  If you are a fan of shake roofs of shopping centers the back is largely intact.
Now on to the history,,,
The Safeway opened on April 4th 1960 with none other than Quentin Reynolds cutting the ribbon.  The store however was VERY short-lived despite it being larger than many stores of that era closing in 1974.  By 1977 the building became a roller rink operating under the name Rollarena, the owner of Rollarena also operated the Roller Garden and the Bayfair Shopping Center.  The Roller Garden was demolished in the early 1980s and the Dublin location closed soon after.  By the late 1980s the building was occupied by a Saw Mill furniture store.  The Saw Mill remained open until the early 1990s.  Sometime around 1995 the building was remodeled to become a MacFrugals Discount Store brought the building literally back to a retail store after being a roller rink for more than ten years.  In the late 1990's MacFrugals was acquired by Big Lots which renamed all of the stores under the Big Lots name.  More than 49 almost 50 years later the building looks for the most part just as it did as Safeway.  The Sprose Reitz Variety Store closed in the late 1970s and since Sprouse Reitz closed World of Shoes has been occupying the building.
   

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Taken on: December 16, 2009

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