Comments on: Erie PA News, Sports and Events for Veteran’s Day, Wednesday, November 11, 2009

By: jeff

jeff — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:09:12 +0000

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

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:11:13 +0000

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?

By: Joe Erie

Joe Erie — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:41:16 +0000

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.

By: jerry

jerry — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:26:35 +0000

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.

By: Kitten

Kitten — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:24:40 +0000

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.

By: JohnG

JohnG — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:19:47 +0000

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.

By: t.schriefer

t.schriefer — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:25:13 +0000

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.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:53:58 +0000

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!

By: DanZ

DanZ — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:21:31 +0000

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.

By: John

John — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:18:24 +0000

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.