Abandoned Minyard Food Store - Lancaster, TX
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- Опубліковано 11 січ 2021
- Abandoned Minyard Food Store - Lancaster, TX. In this video, we are joined with our friend, Connie, who showed us this old grocery store which closed in 1994. Minyard as a whole went out of business closing all of their grocery stores or selling them to other chains. This particular location was an old Safeway prior to being a Minyard. We also check out some other abandoned stores in this shopping center.
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I remember when that was a Safeway back in the ‘70’s. Used to go there with my grandparents when I was a kid.
I Remember going to Safeway’s with my dad when I was little with a sack of tubes out of the TV and we had to check the tubes in the tube checker this was in the 60s talk about old
Grew up less than a mile from there. Rode our bikes to Safeway all the time to play the video games next to the front doors. Other stores in there were Revco, Gibson’s, and Moses 5&10. The Hallmark store and others came later. Minyard’s occupied three other locations in town over the years. Originally it was near town square (building was destroyed in the 1994 tornado), on Dallas Ave. across from Hickory House BBQ, and in the shopping center on Pleasant Run Rd. at Bluegrove Rd. I personally don’t remember there ever being a Dollar General in that center, but I wouldn’t be surprised.
I love the architecture in there especially with the ceiling
Locally, we have a JoAnn Fabrics which took over a Safeway with these interior aesthetics. Ceiling beams, clock and all. Super cool.
Minyards was my most favorite grocery store. I miss it.
Looks to be in pretty good shape considering It's been closed 25 years. I'm surprised the ceiling hasn't collapsed and the walls aren't covered in black mold.
That first Minyards ad was great. I love old grocery store commercials and old school structures. There was an Acme in Aberdeen, MD back in the 80s that had an unusual style and I loved it.
I remember there were talks in turning it into a skating rink 15 years ago
My Grandmother lived on the street next to it. I use to walk to the Minyards and get ice cream every Saturday. Its sad how the place is starting to fall apart over the years. This place is my City View Center without the methane gas coming out of the ground.
There is a old house in Lancaster tx. Off pleasant run road. Goinging towards Lancaster right next to a old railroad tracks. Please check it out!!
Yes !!! I pass by that house everyday on the way to work. I have always wanted to know what it looked like inside. I used to see the family that lived there, many years ago...but now its been boarded up for a while now. It's right next to the train tracks, on the right, sitting in a big yard...beautiful 2 story home.
I live 1/2 block behind there... this was really cool to see~!!! ~ God Bless & stay safe~!!! 👊
i use to live across the street it was a great place
that is so old!! like totally 70s. Great Hat, Connie!!
Closed that long wow, pretty good shape for being closed that long. I like the old school commercials beginning and end. Thank you for sharing.
THanks for sharing this one wallie it was awesome to see this building up close like that wow
There was also a Hallmark store near the end at the left as well as a laundromat that turned into a Little Ceasers at the far end on the left. The right side businesses came and went fast.
Thanks for the videos recently. I've enjoyed and keep it up!
Amazing how that store has been abandoned since 1994 very cool looking old shopping center awesome video 👍
I liked that old, vintage Minyard grocery store! It was a great, short video! I enjoyed watching! 👍😀
It must have closed after the 94 tornado. F4 tornado destroyed the town square. This wasn’t in the direct path, but a lot of buildings around town sustained damage from the outer winds or debris. And after that tornado, the town has never truly recovered to what it was when I was growing up. It’s depressing to drive through because there are so many abandoned buildings.
I live near by there , and always rode an bike when I was abit younger to look at it , always wondered what it was but never fully saw inside , that is great☺️
Awesome video Wallie have a great one sir!
Another great video Wallie! Something to take my mind off the Stillers game that I shall never speak of again
My high-school gf worked here as a cashier and there was a old video store across street. I worked at Mr. Jim’s Pizza and always got a fresh pizza and VHS tape and picked her up from work and made it a night. Memories😢
WallieB26, really enjoyed your awesome abandoned minyards! There was one in Grand Prarie, TX where my uncle and aunt lived.
Love the design of that old minyard store
Cool architecture. Looks good to be closed since 1994. My Mom shopped at Safeway at Clarendon/ Westmoreland in Oak Cliff in the 60’s and 70’s. It became Minyards in the 80’s. I remember Eckerds took over Pages drugstore in the 80’s. Had my first job at Pages in the Westmoreland Heights shopping center. Thanks for sharing.😊
I was about to say, this CLEARLY was a Safeway. We still have a couple of those old school designed buildings around here, still operating as Safeway's too!
My family always shopped at Minyard's when I was a little kid in Texas. I miss that store. There was a nice lady who worked there who would always greet us and chat with my parents. They would give my brother and I free M&M cookies from the bakery counter and they tasted so dang good!
I lived a half a block from this shopping center and walked many times to the M.E.Moses 5 & 10 cent store to spend my allowance... we would spend so much time trying to decide between wax coke bottles, candy necklaces, butterscotch lifesavers, chickletts gum, bags of gold nuggets gum, fruit shaped plastic containers or straws filled with flavored sugar/powder, sugar babies, slow pokes, chicosticks... and so much more!
I use to work there, when it was Safeway :) 1976 I think :)
From a distance the building almost looks like an older build school (like from where I’m from). If there weren’t the pillars on the inside of the Minyards, it could be an old gymnasium.
Very cool old stores. I remeber shopping with my late grandmother at Safeway and Winn Dixie
Hey I remember Minyard's grocery stores my mom used to go in there and Shop for groceries there in Tom Thumb and also Krogers that's the ones I can remember down there in Bedford but we once had a Food Lion down there too but it didn't last long
I work for Kroger lol
We have a lot of Kroger’s here in Texas
@@JustinDoesASMR25 oh yeah I remember when I lived down there in Bedford the Krogers in the Minyard's for both across the street from each other when the Minyard's closed down the Kroger's moved into the Minyard's spot then the old Kroger's location became a Big Lots
Really cool building!
I was gonna say that facade looks super Safeway Marina vibe. Used to have one near me I visited all the time with that vibe inside. Now demolished.
Dad was a store manager for Minyards and was assigned to this location for awhile in its heyday! Cool little bustling town square at that point. I recall there being a bank nearby that was hit by Bonnie & Clyde which had some re-enactments of those events. Sad to see the abandoned shells here.
You are talking about Lancaster's 2nd Minyard on North Dallas Avenue
I remember shopping there as a kid
Good video! That sure is an old plaza. Surprised it has not been knocked down or taken over by someone else! Great find!
Awesome video 👌👌 man
Nice video guys!
LOL. It's so oooooold. Mkay. I knew that place as Safeway & everybody wanted to work there because they were union & paid WELL. My first job at 16 in 1980 was at Gibsons Department Store down at the south end (right), and I later worked at Skillern's Drugstore, (before it was Revco) which was to the north (left) of Safeway. In between Safeway & Gibson's was a Motts/Moses 5 & 10 (aka "Five & Dime") -- never can remember between Moses & Motts which one was that shopping center & which was the one down on Dallas Avenue at the other main shopping center from that time. At the far north end by Pleasant Run Road was a laundromat. I THINK that clothing store was a Mitchell's, but not 100% on that. The ORIGINAL Minyards AND Gibsons were located just off the southeast corner of the Town Square. :)
Minyard's went out of business about 5 years ago. We had one near Hampton and Illinois in Dallas. That store became Carnival by 2000. It closed by 2006. And in recent years Aldi took it over.
Wow that's dope I use to stay in DeSoto Tx next to Lancaster I used to see this building all the time
Great video keep up content.
The round ceiling and roof is really cool. I have never seen a grocery store built like that
Yeah, the SAFEWAY letters would have gone in those seven (3 tan, 4 brown) rectangular panels in the second row of glass, from top.
There are still several of these buildings around, just drove by one today. Not sure if it's about to be torn down, so I need to go record a video of it very soon.
damn how the place has changed. used to live 2 blocks away from here. would walk to Safeway for bread, etc. as a kid. nice to visit the old neighborhood but sad to see how badly it's gone to crap
Wow I use to live across the street of a Minyards in Oak Cliff on Sunnyvale and Lancaster in Dallas Texas I think I remember the one in Lancaster before it closed bring back memories
I worked there in 1963 as sackboy and stocker
AWESOME
I really love the aesthetics of the Minyard's Food Store! I fondly remember growing up here in Weirton,WV and many years ago we had long gone grocery stores that had the same aesthetics. We also once had an Eckerd drugstore here in Weirton. Here in Weirton,WV, we had alot of businesses that are long gone. We had a Fisher's Big Wheel which was where Gabe's is located, Grants Dept store, Jim's Bargain Store, 2 Marlin's shoe stores one was located at the Weirton Shopping Plaza and the other location of Marlin's shoe store was downtown on Main Street on the north end of downtown. We once had Weirton Pet Shop and they had a bird that was named Joe and the bird talked to everyone that entered the pet shop. We once had the best mens clothing store in town Plaza Mens Shop which was located at where Goodwill is on Penco Road, we had an Elby's Big Boy located on Freedom Way downtown on the south end of downtown. Weirton once had a drive in theater Belle Air Drive In located in the Belle Air addition which closed in 1985. I know that I mentioned Jim's Bargain Store it was located on Main Street downtown on the south end. Weirton also once had Al Shaws Jewlers and Al was the best jeweler in town. Weirton also once had an Isaly's downtown, along with other long gone stores-- G. C. Murphy's, Denmark's, Stone and Thomas, Jean Frocks, Picway shoe store, and M&B Market which was the best store in which to buy magazines. As for M&B Market, when the owner passed away, the business became one of the many cafes that we have here in Weirton. We also had Royal Bakery located at Weirton Shopping Plaza on Penn Penn Avenue, I do apologize for not mentioning KMart that we had here in Weirton,WV which opened in 1974 and sadly closed in April 2017. I do indeed miss KMart. Weirton also once had an airport called Weirton Airport which was located on Three Springs Drive on the KMart shopping center side of Three Springs Drive. The airport closed in 1971. The Weirton Airport could only accommodate single engine aircraft, and get this--the airport didn't have a control tower yikes! I remember seeing airplanes take off and land at the Weirton Airport. Three Springs Drive at that time, was a narrower road being that motorists drove past the airport. I do hope that Wallieb26 has subscribers that live in and grew up here in Weirton,WV as well as myself to remember the businesses that we once had here in Weirton. Take care!
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Wish I was alive to see when Safeway looked like this!
Safeway was a pretty school store back in the day when I was little in the 60s
That grocery store isn’t in that bad of shape for being closed 26 years.
@BadDriversOfTennessee where was it
it had a nice donut store attached to it
@@jamiepuente7636 where was that
@@jpinman4184 in a far land somwhere in texas its close to dallas and mesquite all the houses are one sstory and like 100 years old
I love the ceiling in the supermarket
They were called the marina style Safeway stores first designed by Wurster, Berrnadi &Emmons and built from 1959 to the mid to late 60's Hundreds were built across Canada and the U.S.A. but a lot of then have since been torn down or sold to other stores as Safeway abandoned them over the years
This place is pretty cool
@01:31 - to the left: the original RevCo that became Eckerds 2nd location. To the right: an M.E. Moses 5 & Dime. Safeway right in the middle.
It was originally "Skillern's" before it was Revco. I worked there. :)
@@hatpowzer6008 oh yeah, I forgot that. I vaguely recall Skillerns. That was when I was in elementary school I think. Maybe not. Forgot when it closed. Near the left end of the strip was a Hallmark store, too.
@@kincaide67what school? I went to Millbrook in Lancaster
Wow that is interesting btw I was a little boy in the 1998
I live less than a mile from here, always wondered what was in that building.
I like those little black squares next to the clock and over were where security would lookout and watch people before security cameras were invented.
WOW! I haven't seen that style of building since the last Safeway looking like that got remodeled or it might still. The Proctor District store in Tacoma, WA.
The store you called Dollar general was an old ME Moses 5 & 10 store. Used to shop this strip all the time. Skillerns Drug Store.
Nice WallieB26
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Lancaster is another really bad part of the DFW area. Anyone reading this don’t ever consider moving there.
I worked several years at that Eckerd location. I was there in the breakroom watching OJ Simpson's verdict being read back in the original murder trial. Sure wish I could have seen inside.
I can totally tell that was a old Safeway with that roof the way its shaped inside we used to have a old Safeway in Calgary Canada with that same design
Seems the store was made in the late '50s or early '60s.
Later than that. 1967.
The curved roof is pretty cool looking,don't think I've seen buildings like that in my area.
minyards reminds me of the old Paydays food store in Elizabeth pa....you might remember that one wallie,,has been torn down for years now but the design was similiar
Cool😁
Definitely looks like it could be turned into a roller skaing rink lol
Wow it's like a time capsule in there
ours have been repurposed into a Fiesta, and now an Albertsons
@04:40 - this place was originally an M.E. Moses 5 & Dime store for the longest, then it shuttered up. Dollar General came in sometime in the mid-late 90-s.
A little interesting trivia for Kayla. In the early 80s one of the Minyard granddaughters was kidnapped and held for ransom in Palo Pinto County. She was taken to a remote ranch road and tied to a tree. She managed to get partially free and found her way to the ranch house. When my friends father opened the door he recognized her and called the sheriff's department. The ranch belonged to a friend family.
they moved out of this place and went to the 2nd Winn Dixie location, where Fiesta is now
This was the 2nd Minyards location.
It would be cool to get inside the grocery store
This Mineyard supermarket, is like a supermarket called Morrisons in the uk. They use the letter M in the logo. In the 1990's Morrisons takeover Safeways stores in the UK, and put Morrisons logos.
This is very similar to the old Penn Jersey fruits and veg stores that were in the Philadelphia and tristate area growing up in the 60s and 70s. They became 'holiday Thriftway' after that. My local closed in 2009. It is still abandoned though i no longer live in the area or state. I do not recommend filming it though because it is in a very rough area of Philadelphia.
Believe it or not, the first Safeway store with this design (in San Francisco, built 1959 if I'm not mistaken) is still open today! Ironically, even though the Safeway name still is in use today, Safeway is now owned by ALBERTSONS which once was an arch-rival to Safeway
The store to the left was a Skillerns Drugs before it became an Eckerds.
Now that is some architecture design for the old grocery store. They don't build them like they use to. Everything now has to simple, modern, and boring.
I used to work for Minyards. They fucked over so many of their senior employees out of their retirement investments when they closed.
Great video! Does Connie have a channel we can support as well?
The 1994 tornado wiped out that area and did a lot of damage to that center. The store never recovered from that storm.
When he said it closed in 94, I was wondering if it was related to that. I was a kid when that happened. I remember the Minyards being open as a young child, and then it being perpetually closed later on, and everything in that center placing out over the years.
Would like to see if you can find any Foodland grocery stores I used to work at 1 and Detroit most of the Lincoln Park area
I just came across one this past weekend just south of Pittsburgh in a little town called Monongahela. They were closed for the evening but it was definitely a sight for sore eyes.
Minyards reminds me of Moon Township Kuhn's Maerket
First! Gutted and Gone!
My wife's grandparents house is that on the side st.
There's was M.E Moses next door before Dollar General
I remember Eckerds who used to be genovese!!!
There was a save-on office supply store.
this looks like a very old safeway.
i use to live there
Minyard where merchandise is dirt cheap and kids run wild😂😂😂😂
Do the getgo/Georgies gas station in Altoona,PA
It’s gone
Yea that looks like an old structure.