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THE GREAHAM AREA’S FIRST SUPERMARKET


223rd and S.E. Stark in Gresham.  (1954)

    


1963

       

Carl and Ada Zimmerman leased a one-room country store
(above) from Edward and Minnie Aylsworth in 1938 and purchased it in 1943, remodeling and expanding it into the
area’s first supermarket.
 

The store closed in 2001 and the building was demolished
in 2005 when Weston Buick Pontiac GMC and Kia built a
new showroom and dealership in its place (below).

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GATEWAY ‘COMPLETE’ SHOPPING CENTER


Fred Meyer in 1956 celebrating the second anniversary of Gateway Shopping Center with his wife Eva.

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