Piggley Wiggley Closing

[sauerkraut]

Gang, here's some unhappy news, Tulsa's only Piggley Wiggley Store at Adm. & Harvard is in the process of closing. I guess they went bankrupt, They are looking for a new owner. I always liked that store it felt like stepping back into time into another era whenever  I  went in there. Most of the shelfs are bare now. Maybe if they find a new owner he will still keep the name. Fort Worth Texas had a Piggley Store (very much  like the one Tulsa has) on Hemphill street just south of Magnolia back in 1980 and that store has long since been gone & leveled. I lived a block away, shopped there- and I dated a girl who was a clerk there for a while.

[cannon_fodder]

/kicking myself

I've driven by dozens of times and chuckled at it.   A couple months ago I drove by and thought I should stop before it closes, but didn't.  And now . . .

[mobboss]

i worked at a parking lot BBQ stand in front of that piggly wiggly in 1986, was always a decent neighborhood store. sorry to see them going tits up.

there was another one on 15th street and quaker years ago,,then it became yeakey's grocery/sound warehouse records/ it is a camilles sidewalk cafe now

[Hoss]

i worked at a parking lot BBQ stand in front of that piggly wiggly in 1986, was always a decent neighborhood store. sorry to see them going tits up.

there was another one on 15th street and quaker years ago,,then it became yeakey's grocery/sound warehouse records/ it is a camilles sidewalk cafe now

Somehow I also remember that location being a Sipes (when I was just a wee toddler of about 5).  I can remember Mom driving us up there in a 1958 BelAir and I remember the gas station (which the building still exists) as a Derby selling Ethyl for 0.429 a gallon.  This is before the IDL when I lived at 14th and Elgin (no longer exists).

[sauerkraut]

/kicking myself

I've driven by dozens of times and chuckled at it.   A couple months ago I drove by and thought I should stop before it closes, but didn't.  And now . . .

The P W isn't closed yet, but it's getting there, they are clearing off the shelfs. I would not mind buying one of the store posters that feature the Piggley Wiggley logo if they would sell one of them to me..  I stopped in there Monday to buy some potato chips and they had only a few left on the rack. That's a part of Tulsa's historic past vanishing forever.

[sgrizzle]

You can buy Piggly Wiggly merchandise online:
http://www.pigglywiggly.com/cgi-bin/customize?merchandise.html

[Conan71]

You can buy Piggly Wiggly merchandise online:
http://www.pigglywiggly.com/cgi-bin/customize?merchandise.html

Wow, nice website.

I hope they raze that rat-infested shopping center after they close the PW.

[AngieB]

So I guess it has come full circle and we can finally say the the Piggley Wiggley is NLSTP.

[godboko71]

Wasn't this location closed a bit after Buds Grocery closed? Or did Piggley Wiggley buy it before it closed?

Sorry slept since then.

[Bumby]

It was a Harvest between Bud's and PW.   Don't remember if there was something between Humpty Dumpty and Buds.  Humpty is the first store I remember in that location.

I hate to see the smaller neighborhood grocery stores going away.  It is very annoying to me to park out in BFE and then walk a block once inside the store for some milk, bread or tp.

[godboko71]

Oh I love the smaller stores and I hope someone buys this place, I used to live near there it wasn't a "bad" store.

[Hawkins]

This is the last grocery store in north Tulsa, isn't it?

So if they can't make it, why would another one open in the area?

North Tulsa is an area in crisis. Its going to become a little Detroit soon.

[TURobY]

This is the last grocery store in north Tulsa, isn't it?

No.

[Hawkins]

No.

Well??

[TURobY]

Warehouse Market at 845 N. Sheridan and 6230 N. Peoria for instance.