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 neighborhood since his father was assigned to…