Since
September 22, 1997 the Gemco Site has been visited
times. Updated 2016- Guestbook is back.
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"Please show your
GEMCO card at
the front
desk..."
Gemco
gave the $1.00 fees to
the student
scholarship
fund.

Sent
in by Roxanna Davison Sullivan in June 2002.
It's
in great shape for being made in 4-1980.
Send
me your Gemco memorabilia for this site
.
(Photo Gallery link near bottom of this page)
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GEMCO
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DID
YOU
KNOW...
That
the Granada Hills store was only 2 miles from the
famous Knott's Landing
culdesac? Many people thought it was along the
peaceful
coast but it
was
really backed up against the noisy and
busy Balboa
Blvd. The
street was named Seaview Circle in the
series but
was actually
Crystalaire Place.
I found the street
because the
producers left
the addresses on the house
and they
were
viewable during the
shows.
I got my Thomas Bros. map out
and looked
for that
address on
a culdesac
and came up with some possibilities.
I
tried Crystalaire
Place
first since it was down
the street from
work and
when I
drove into the culdesac my mouth
dropped! There were the houses
from
Knott's Landing!
Over the
years I would
go
there during lunch and see lots of tapings and it was really cool to
see all
the famous actors. Alec Baldwin
was
one of
the
nicest actors there even though his character Joshua
Rush was
convincingly mean. This shows how good of an actor Alec was!
Added August 2010-
Please read
this
important info about the famous
culdesac.
View
map | Google Street View |
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What
HAPPENED to GEMCO?
That
is the most asked
question.
Thanks to Glendora for
the
detailed answer:
Lucky
Stores sold GEMCO
to buy back Lucky stock to
defend a
hostile
takeover. In 1986 Lucky was the subject of a hostile
takeover attempt by Asher
Edelman. The
board resisted this attempt by simplifying the company and returning it
to its core business: groceries. Before this takeover attempt, Lucky
owned auto-parts stores, women’s retail clothing stores,
grocery
stores, and fabric stores in several states (Lucky’s business
included
Hancock Fabrics, Piccadilly, Checker Auto Parts, Dorman’s
Auto Parts,
Kragen Auto Parts, Yellow Front Discount Department Store, Gemco
Membership Department Stores, Kash & Karry Grocery, and Eagle
Stores). Lucky’s ventures were trimmed back and it became
solely a
chain in certain western states. This re-organization was very
successful and Lucky prospered as a grocery chain.
Posted on
Jan. 27, 2006.
Visit the Asher
Edelman
page I made.
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The
Gemco price code
(Thanks
to Patricia
Castillo for reminding
us about this.)
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Let's see
how this worked on
a price
tag that Mary McQ sent us in 2006-

K3-
K is the 11th letter in the alphabet so
this item was put on the shelf on Nov. 1983.
SMG-There
is no S
in the Gemco code, it is
just a spacer. M=8 and G=6.
So the cost of this item was 86 cents.
The 9 stood
for the Dept. number,
in this case, Variety.
Click here
to see
what
Mary's price tag is on.
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Are you a former
employee of GEMCO or
know someone who is?
I
made a GEMCO web page so all of us
can keep
in touch
and
maybe have a nice get-together
sometime.
Please
fill out the Gemco Guestbook
so we
can a have a page
of
the names of former GEMCO
employees.
Please
bookmark the Gemco page and
check the Guestbook
to
see who else has
checked in.
I
worked for Gemco from 1978 to 1986.
I
started in the Simi store
(1978-81) and
worked at Northridge (1981-82)
Pomona
(1982-83) and Granada Hills
(1983-1986),
working
in the Audio Department.
The
best store managers
I worked for
were
Merle
Mitchell (Simi) and Bonnie
(Pomona)
and some of the best assistants managers were
Karen Elson and Steve Madrigal.
I met a lot of great
people and GEMCO
treated
us very well.
Roy Hooper
September-1999-
Thanks
to all of
you
who have found the Gemco Site, employees
as well as the happy customers.
Gemco
treated us well and
reading the
comments
in the Guestbook
confirms that.
When
you tell your friends
about the
site,
they can search for "Gemco Stores" to find it.
Thanks,
Roy
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See
more Gemco info on wikipedia.
Supermarket History and
Architecture web
site.
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