As a kid, I got a kick out of the conveyor system used to send groceries out to one's car. I also grew up in Doraville (Oakcliff & Pin Oak)in the early 70's, and TI was the place to go. There was a Service Merchandise on the left & a Linen Supermarket in the middle.They tore the building down about a year & now there's a Walt Mart Supercenter on the spot.What goes around comes around Reply Delete Home depot was on the right side of the building not the left. There used to be a Treasury near where I live.The building was preserved almsot as all as the TI on Jonesboro RD. Naturally everyting was pulled appart & there was hardly anything left,After we left on the way home I felt sad because I knew it was the last time I would be in TI I live near FT Lauderdale now & they had Treasure Islands down here but called them The Treasury. The grocery section closed in about 1978.It was vacant for about a year before Home Depot opened in 1979. WE would go into the department store & do some shopping than drive around to the side of the building we would give the clerk the tab with the number on it.They would find the tub with the number matching the tab & give us our grocery's from the tub.I'll never forget the little chnage machines at the cash Every friday we would do our grocery shopping there,We would pay for our grocery's leave them there in the grocery section & they would give us a tab with a number than they put our bags of grocery's in a tub with a number that matches the tab on a conveyor belt. Of course, old Richway buildings have those huge wedges on top of the stores, bringing back great memories from my childhood every time I see them. I was last in the old Treasure Island building on the Friday after Thanksgiving of 2003 and there were three stores in the building, and I think they were all discount fashion stores (similar to Ross and TJ Maxx and Burlington). Until last year, it was also the last time I'd seen PG17 style fluorescent lights (those "wavy" super-high-output types that were brighter than the standard 8-foot super-high-ouput types).Īs a kid, I remember being disappointed when Home Depot moved into part of the Treasure Island.
The "zigzag" roofline of Treasure Island and inside, the fluorescent lights being up in each triangular area, is a memory. Both stores had a very distinctive appearance. I remember going in Treasure Island as a kid when my parents would go there and to the Richway near each other on Cobb parkway. These dated back to at least the 50s and were closed in the 70s as the chain tried (unsuccessfully) to redefine itself. Most of these died out in the 70s: Grand Union stopped building Grandways in the 60s Giant scaled back the Super Ginats, but ran two full-line departments stores until well into the 70s and Value City never opened other stores with a supermarket and the super market moved out of the first store in the 70s.Īnother variation on this: Wieboldt's, a low end full-line department store in Chciago had super markets integrated into a number of its branches. Meijer's supercenter format also dates from around 1960. Grandway (combos of Grand Union supermarkets and general merchandise discount stores) in Florida & the Northeast which began in '57, Super Giant in the DC area which dates from even earlier, and the original Value City in Cleveland (where food was a leased department) which was circa 1960. There were a number of supercenter experiments that predate Treaure Island. Its last, a collection of drug store chains including Eckerd, is now under different ownership while JCPenney focuses on its original department stores. Today, a concept like Treasure Island would be welcomed by many to reintroduce competition to a market completely dominated by only two discount chains, but its parent company JCPenney has mostly abandoned its other largely unsuccessful retail concepts. The Jonesboro Road location is unique in that it is completely unchanged from when it last functioned as a Zayre/Home Depot while the other locations were renovated and modified significantly. The other two locations are no longer retail with DeKalb County running offices out of the Memorial Drive location and the Atlanta Expo Center filling out the Jonesboro Road location. The last major retailer in the Buford Highway location was an Office Depot, and now a large flea market covers much of the old floorspace. The most successful of these is the location in Marietta, which still has a Value City in the former Home Depot portion. Given their location, these stores also faced decline of the area surrounding them.
At that point, the Zayre locations were closed and Home Depot, now becoming a national chain, abandoned the original smaller stores. In the late 1980's, Home Depot began building bigger and better stores while Zayre went bankrupt and was bought out by Ames.
The former location on Buford Highway is now a flea market.
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