Today is Veteran’s Day. Thank you for your service to this country. I’m able to do stuff like blog my trivial comments here every day because people like my Grandfather fought in WWII and my father-in-law who served in Vietnam. Everyone = grateful.
Erie District Judge Tom Carney has pled guilty on charges of disorderly conduct for his role in a road rage incident where he flashed a gun at another motorist on I-79. He will pay fines, and had several other charges dropped.
A car beloging to David Kromer, suspected of murdering the Sandusky, Ohio woman who was found in Fairview, was found in Sandusky. Kromer was not in the vehicle.
Erie Blogger emeritus Eden was in town this weekend and posted this scathing review of the Bayfront Sheraton. If you’ve stayed there, do you agree with her assessment of the place? I was there for the Advertisting Federation of NW PA awards and it seemed like a nice place, though I think the management of the place was torqued a group of people at our event set off the fire alarm.
The Union City woman who had more than 100 cats, alive and dead, inside her home will face animal cruelty charges. Not related at all, but here’s a Wikipedia page of cats who have college degrees. Seriously.
Bob at ErieGroceries.com posts that things may be changing at the Quality Market on Liberty. He writes it may be a Tops or a Giant Eagle. We vote it goes back to what it originally was – a Loblaws. Remember those? Wasn’t there one on 26th St. where the post office is near Zuck too? Or was that 12th where the furniture outlet was? Ok, can someone help me think of all the local Loblaws locations?
Wait, better yet, bring back Super Duper. Their pepperoni balls and crazy tags to pick up your groceries were the BOMB.
The Regional Center for Workforce Excellence (RCWE), fiscal agent to the Northwest Pennsylvania Workforce Investment Board (NWPA WIB) has finalized closing procedures and received keys to the Sumner-Nichols Building, 155 West 8th Street, in downtown Erie, Pennsylvania. The first and second floors of the 4-story building will soon house the Pennsylvania CareerLink® – Erie County. The remaining floors of the building will continue to house Erie County Human Services offices.
FundingFactory, the nation’s leading fundraising-through-recycling program, today announces their most recent promotion through their collaboration with Sony Pictures Entertainment and its upcoming animated comedy Planet 51. The film opens in theaters November 20, 2009.
Sports
Area football fans will have an opportunity to watch Edinboro’s first round Super Regional One playoff game at East Stroudsburg live this Saturday. The PA SPORTSfever Network, which televised an eight-game Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference package, including two Edinboro games, this year will broadcast the game throughout the state.
The Gannon swimming and diving teams competed at the Cleveland State quad meet Tuesday afternoon. Both the men and the women defeated John Carroll and Notre Dame (Ohio) College and fell to Cleveland State.
Events
John Elliott, president and CEO of the Economic Development Corporation of Erie County (EDCEC), will be the guest speaker at the Manufacturer & Business Association’s November Eggs ’n’ Issues briefing starting at 8 a.m. Tuesday, November 17 at the Association’s Conference Center, 2171 West 38th Street at Pittsburgh Avenue. To register for this briefing, contact Tracy Shepard at 814/833-3200 or 800/815-2660. Cost is $30 for members, $60 for nonmembers.
There was a Loblaws in North East, another in the former Harborcreek Mall, and yet another at 6th Street @ the Bayfront Parkway, where Sanders Market now stands. Also I believe there was a Loblaws at one time that went through several changes and is now known as St.James Place,(a great facility for parties, weddings, etc)located on Buffalo Road at Bird Drive.
There was one at the Millcreek Mall also – next to where Office Max is.
Yes there was one at 12th and Pittsburgh but it moved a few times. Ok this may get confusing but here goes. There was a Loblaws in the West Erie Plaza and they moved above 12th street next to Value City where PharMore first started, which is now a Big Lots. The first location then became a Murphy’s. Then they moved from the ParMore location across the street to where the furniture place is now.
After they stopped doing “Let’s go to the Races” it all went down hill.
There was a Loblaws on Legion where the post office is now, as well
The Quality on Liberty and 38th was a Loblaws. How about this – The Krogers (my mother was a cashier – and every price had to be punched in manually) was on 12th and Pittsburgh next to where the Loblaws was and in the Value City building there was Grants. The Green stamp store was where She-Bang Skate Park was. Hills Department Store was on 38th were West Telemarketing is now.
And does anyone remember Dalhkempers Dept Store – You found what you wanted in the catalog, put the clipboard with your order on that crazy vertical conveyor belt and you picked up your order from a desk when they called your name.
When we were kids we couldn’t wait for the Penny’s Sears and Dalhkemper catalogs to come – we spent hours looking at all the toy pages.
Growing up in Fairview, I would always go with my mom to the Loblaws at 12th & Powell. I also remember the Loblaws at 12th & Pittsburgh, 38th & Peach, at the mall next to OfficeMax, and at 26th & Legion where the Post Office is now. The one at Legion Road had a HUGE canopy over the entrance so people could load their groceries out of the weather, but all it really did was create a huge wind tunnel. Also, I’ve been told that the Valu Home Center at E.38th and Old French was also a Loblaws at one time. I personally do not remember this location, however.
Imagine my surprise last year when my wife and I were in Toronto for a weekend and we came across a Loblaws! Apparently, they’re still alive and well up in Ontario. We went in just to see what it looked like now…it was so strange to see the President’s Choice (Loblaws National brand) everywhere. It brought me back to my childhood.
Here’s a great Wikipedia article on the current state of Loblaws. It specifically mentions Northwest PA and that Loblaws were operating here until the early 1990s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loblaws
The store at East 38th and Old French was a Golden Dawn. I think there were a few of those around too, back in the day.
My folks shopped at the Loblaws in the East Grandview plaza most often, I think. Or the east side Super Duper. That place was the greatest–not only for the live lobsters and those funky totes for loading your groceries, but also my brothers and I could ride underneath the carts. And they had the best antipasto I’ve ever had.
Loblaws was probably the dominant grocery chain in the Erie area throughout the 60s and 70s.
I believe it was a Canadian-based grocer, at least originally. Something runs in my mind that the US operations were spun off quite some time before its demise in the states. I didn’t know it was still operating in Ontario.
There were a few A&Ps around at the time as well, and the original convenience store: Red and White’s.
There was a Loblaws at the Harborcreek Mall.
The ones in Ontario are really nice. I shopped at one on McCowan in Markham that can’t be described. The cafe was 2 levels with the 2nd overlooking the produce department.
We used to go to the Lowblaws @ 38th and Liberty and the Super Duper on 26th. That Loblaws is where my brother got his hand caught in the conveyer belt while playing around and had to get a bunch of stitches. These days if that happened we’d have been rich!
actually the loblaws at 38th and liberty was first located in the liberty plaza,and the one on legion rd was brown bros,loblaws.larry brown moved his store.and changed from iga to loblaws.at the time it had the best butcher dept. in town.
The Loblaws locations I remember (dang I’m old, haha):
1)12th near Powell (Eckerd’s was next door)
2) West Erie Plaze (moved across the street next to what was then MASON’S, then across to where Best Fitness is now – Loblaw’s took over the Grant City location.
3) Grandview
4) Liberty Plaza
5) 26th and Legion (ironally, that building was built as Tops)
6) Corry had a Loblaws too.
Ahh Loblaws! I used to call it “Woblobs” because I couldn’t pronounce it correctly. I couldn’t tell you where any other ones were because I only remember the Harborcreek one.
But how do you pronounce Loblaws? Growing up, we said “Lawb-laws,” but I recall others, feigning a sophistication they did not quite posess, saying “Low-blaws.”
And Jenny,
24 Sniff. That is all.
There was a Loblaws at East 38th and Old French Road. (Yes it became a Golden Dawn, but was a Loblaws for many years.) There was Loblaws in the Summit Plaza (at Peach and Gore) it was small and it was replaced by the one at the mall. The one on Legion Road was, as another poster said, a Tops initially. Funny thing was when Tops opened the first thing you saw when you walked in was the huge beer display. (That didn’t last long!) I worked for Loblaws from 1974 until 1979 as a part-time stock clerk.
I have found memories as a kindergarten child of lowblaws on 38th and liberty.
My folks had an apartment not far from there.. i was always in awe of the track thing that could take your groceries from inside to outside to the cars… anyone else remember that?
There was also a loblaws located in the Perry plaza located on Fairmount and Broad street. It was where the erie county farms now is