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[Stadtplan]

Matt Leclercq with S-T did a cool photojournal highlighting bygone FW grocery stores:

PHOTOS: These Fort Worth grocery stores disappeared decades ago, many now forgotten BY MATT LECLERCQ
https://www.star-tel...e279837279.html

[John T Roberts]

I saw the photos.  Many of these buildings are still standing.  It would be interesting to take each of the UTA photographs and then go to the sites and take a photograph of what is there currently.

[johnfwd]

I couldn't access ST.  But, as you know, the building that used to be Buddie's is now a Goodwill store.

[John T Roberts]

If you are referring to the one on Camp Bowie right after the split of Camp Bowie and Camp Bowie West, I know that it is now a Goodwill Store.  I work just a block down the street in the old Levitz Warehouse.  I also remember when it was a Buddies. 

[Stadtplan]

Dec. 18, 1952: The opening of new Buddie’s Super Market No. 3, at 6825 Camp Bowie Blvd. (This address is near the split between Camp Bowie and Camp Bowie West.) Fort Worth Star-Telegram archive/UT Arlington Special Collections

 

[FunkyTownTay]

Parking lots wouldnt look so bad if cars still looked like they did in 1952

[John T Roberts]

That's the Buddies store.  In the historic photo, note the Bowie Blvd. Drive-in.  That was behind the store before Neiman Marcus bought the property and built their first Fort Worth store there. 

 

My office is right below the striped tower in the background, right above the Goodwill Store sign.