The Sprague Avenue Safeway, 1961 (image L87-1.1919-61).
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Even large, national grocery store chains like Safeway were forced to close after I-90 diverted traffic away from Sprague Avenue.
This file appears in: Jim Hanley, Resident Since 1942
Jim Hanley, Resident Since 1942
"It was just a nice little community, and then the freeway came through and bisected the thing so we ended up with two East Central neighborhoods."
Jim Hanley has lived in the East Central…