Dinner Break! - Sub Center and Safeway - Englewood, CO

Been a lifelong fan of a good sub sammich, and when you find a place that makes a good one, it stands out. Throughout my Colorado years, Sub Center was the sub sammich place of choice. They operated from a storefront in The Shops at Hampden & Logan, which would be anchored by a Safeway grocery story. At least until a few months ago. 



While I’m talking about Sub Center, it only makes sense to cover some other locations in the immediate area. Many of which are named on this Safeway sign. Many of those are no longer there. Spoiler, Safeway is no longer there either…



More than most long gone places I once frequented, Sub Center still pops into my head from time to time. Probably helps that I’ve got enough of these Sub Center promotional poker chips laying around to win a Texem Hold Up tournament…


(Now there’s a deep cut!) 



Englewood Safeway, built in 1984, closed November 2025.


I read last summer that the Englewood Safeway would be one of ten Colorado Safeway stores that would be closing, due to underperformance. No word on how their management of the store contributed to that underperformance. That news kind of bummed me out… From October 1996 to October 2003, I lived in a crappy one bedroom apartment off Kenyon Avenue, about 4 blocks away from Safeway. So it quickly became my primary source of groceries. Just as the surrounding businesses became staples in my life, because they were so close by. I stumbled into Safeway because it served an immediate need after moving in. 



Wasted Quarter #70 - Abandoned Englewood.


Other than correcting typos and removing parts not relevant to this story, I’m just going to re-print a few lightly edited paragraphs from my big mess of a book about Englewood:


“Taking the bike trail along the creek, under Jefferson, and up the stairs to pick up some groceries for the rest of our journey, from Safe Muffins. Before their 2004 remodel, which made the store rather dark and user unfriendly, a sign above the exit doors read: "Serving Englewood since 1927". When I frequented this Safeway during the Kenyon years, I wondered if they had been in this location side 1927, or just the town itself. Pictures from the Englewood Public Library showed several locations of the Englewood Safeway over the years, from multiple locations on Broadway, to the current Health One building. But this is the location I was familiar with.”


“The first time I first stepped foot inside the Safeway back in 1996, the store was undergoing a remodel that took it from it's mid-1980's layout, to the one I knew so well during my first tour of duty in Englewood. Upon moving back in 2005, I was horrified by what Safeway had been turned into. Forced upscale that didn’t fit this area… But they added a gas station to the east end of the parking lot!”


So I immediately became familiar with Safeway… 


A few weeks after moving to Englewood, another local business came to me…



A rep from the nearby Jim Paris Tire City was going doing to door, selling discount oil change cards. Technically, my apartment didn’t allow door to door solicitors, but in this case, I was glad they did. After listening for a few minutes, I signed up for his pitch. Thinking that I was new to the area, and was looking for a nearby place for oil changes and other auto care needs.



Jim Paris Tire City, located on the northeast corner of Logan and Jefferson. Photo taken in September 2003, on my first dedicated photo tour. Utilizing a very crappy 35mm camera, to snap a quick drive by shot of locations I wanted to remember after I moved to Minnesota. With the limitations of film, it wasn’t an exhaustive list… But Jim Paris Tire City made the “importance” cut!


Sometimes when I’d bring my car in for service, I’d stop at Safeway first for something to eat, and perhaps something to read while I waited. Though, daily copies of both the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News, were provided on the table in the middle of the waiting area chairs. Their waiting area was small and modest, yet comfortable enough. There was a single seat restroom, and for a time, you could still smoke cigarettes while waiting inside! The entire building had that distinct combination of oil and exhuast, encased in cold cement smell. Mechanic shops don’t smell like that any more.


For transition’s sake, we’re going to take Jefferson to Sherman Street, behind Safeway, then cut through the parking lot on the north side of the grocery store. There used to be something really cool on the lot to the north…



Safeway’s loading dock, from Sherman Street… With a cluster of carts just siting around.


As soon as you get past the building, take an immediate right into the parking lot. If it’s before mid-2015, on your left will be the…



Englewood Masonic Temple


Edited from Wasted Quarter #70 - Abandoned Englewood


“The former Masonic Temple was situated at 3550 S. Sherman Street, in the middle of a large parking lot, between Grant and Sherman, facing old Hampden Avenue. Before the temple, this was the location of the old Lowell Elementary School building, from 1910 until 1956. It was purchased by the Masons, who then built the large grey marble rectangle on the land. Several years ago, the Masons moved out, leaving the large grey marble rectangle to sit and decay. The Masons planned to redevelop the site, but it was eventually sold. The beautiful and weathered grey marble slate building had been sitting vacant since at least 2007.”


The Englewood Masonic Temple was demolished in July 2015. It will get its own story at some point in the future. I have plenty of pictures…


After passing by the Temple, you are now in front of The Shops at Hampden & Logan.



In 1986, the north side of the Safeway parking lot saw a new addition, The Shops at Hampden & Logan (with a street address of 3531 S Logan Street. Not one part of the shopping center touches Hampden, so that name always bugged me. It’s a half a block south of Hampden, bordering Jefferson Avenue. But Hampden is a more notable cross street, so that’s the name it got.


Wonder what the initial stores were in 1986?


Edited from Wasted Quarter #70 - Abandoned Englewood


“A series of small retail shops border the north side of Safeway's parking lot. Here's another of my patented cheesy poorly made panoramic pictures of the row of stores. You can cash a check, mail stuff, buy a phone, get your taxes done, enjoy a manicure, then a haircut, pick up some booze and grab a pizza or a yummy delicious sammich from Sub Center. One of my favorite quick cheap eats locations in all of Englewood. I recommend the turkey and bacon. Of course, I'm printing this issue a good year after taking these pictures, so I'm not sure that all these businesses are still here... Sub Center is. That's all that matters!”


Yeah… Well…



Zooming in on The Shops at Hampden & Logan… You can no longer cash a check here. Probably because no one uses checks these days. At least those who aren’t running an outdated scam, or are 75 years old. Today the former First Commercial Bank of Colorado is an optometrist. You still update your phone plan and then mail it to someone else. 



Rainbow Nails still has the same storefront, and they’ve also fixed and updated their sign in the last decade.


Next door is Choice Cleaners. They are still there today.



In August 2014, it was Mo & Jay’s Mama Mia’s Pizza. We’ll come back to them later. Liberty Tax was next door. I did my taxes through them once, back in 2017. It was far too expensive to do it a second time.


A very small Dairy Queen operates in the Liberty Tax shop today. That kind of surprised me.



The legendary Sub Center previously sat next to Englewood Liquors, which is today as it was then…



Cost Cutters shut down at some point between June 2019 and August 2023, according to the Googles. Thinking they may have been a Covid casualty. Thai & Chinese Express is still going today. Laura ordered food from here quite a bit, but I wasn’t a big fan. Chinese food is very subjective. Every restaurant will have their own recipes, and everyone will taste them differently.


That works for Sub Center, as everyone has different expectations from their choice of Sub Sammiches…



For example, I love a good cheese steak sammich… But the Sub Center cheese steak wasn’t “the best in town.”


That title probably belonged to Lenny’s. But they closed their Englewood location (off Broadway and Floyd) for good, in early 2014.



Sub Center on X-Mess morning, 2013.


You can tell it’s X-Mess, because of the singular token wreath, hanging between Mama Mia’s and Liberty Tax.



Placing your Sub Center order was done by filling out a paper slip. Each of their 40 base sammiches were divided into seven groups, which had color coded paper slips next the menu board. Sammiches were numbered, so you knew you had the correct paper slip. Then you’d simply check the options you wanted added to each base sammich. Type of cheese, any sort of sauces and whatever vegetables you wanted. Once you’ve filled out your slip, you slide it down the ramp at the top, down into the prep area. 


Then you wait for your order…



The walls of Sub Center had some vintage tin advertisements and some other stuff to stare at while waiting. I remember a laminated paper listing all of the different possible sammiches you could order off the menu. I think it was over 43 million combinations. Then there was the eye focus image on wall. You were supposed to stare at a black square for 30 seconds, then look away. Your eyes would still see the black square for a few seconds. I’m probably not remembering it exactly as it was, but it was based on that principle.


That image on the Sub Center wall pops into my head at work, nearly every day. Comes into mind when I’m toggling through digital plate overlays. If I stare at the solid magenta shape (to represent various press coatings) on the screen for a few extra seconds, then switch over to the 4 color composite of the plates, I can still see the solid magenta on top for a second or two. Just a quick tip for eyeballing digital coating blankets.


Well, it makes sense to me…



I’m not entirely sure, but I think this Sub Center take out menu is from 2014.


Since I have not tried all 40 of their sammiches, I can only speak of the ones I did try. So here’s some thoughts…


#1 - American Combination - Not bad, a little bland. Only had it once and moved on down the menu.


#2 - Italian Combination - Much better than American, but I felt it was missing something.


#9 - Turkey, Bacon and Cheese - My favorite sammich combo, and Sub Center made a fantastic one. I ordered this nearly every visit, over the last five years of eating there. Simple Turkey, Bacon and Cheese, with added lettuce, tomatoes, Bermuda onions and salt. Perfect!


#14 - Shaved Ham and Cheese - Can’t go wrong with a good Ham and Cheese.


#17 - Club - While I love the Turkey and Bacon combo, adding Ham on a sub sammich slightly changes the meat dynamic. However, if the Ham, Turkey, Bacon is applied to white toast, that’s a pretty good sammich. It’s lighter than a sub, so unless you really pile on the protein, you may crave a second Club sammich (on toast), a few minutes later.


#24 - French Dip - I felt the Au Jus was bland, but the Roast Beef itself was good.


#25 - Italian Meatballs - Good but messy. The meatballs reminded me of Simek's, and I like Simek’s.


#29 - Sausage, Meatball and Cheese - Now this was a really delicious sammich! The sausage had the right amount of spice, and it paired well with the meatballs. It was incredibly messy, but very satisfying…. Until the heartburn.


#32 - Cheese Steak - Good, but not “The Best”.


Those are the ones I distinctly remember eating. There may have been others. I know Laura liked the #39 - Pastrami and Swiss. I had a bite once, and the Pastrami was nice and salty. Just how she liked it.


I know that I have several Sub Center sammich order slips saved somewhere in the Archives. I looked for them for a couple of hours, but couldn’t find any. Hoped to have one for inclusion in this story. Sadly, that didn’t happen. Now I will find about 7 of them next week. Just points out even further that I really need to organize my office. We moved into this house in September, 2018, and I haven’t done anything with the Archives. Today there are boxes of stuff stacked in front of the shelves that contain stuff that was partially sorted, 20 years ago…


Maybe someday…


“Are you saying Safeway?”



Englewood Safeway, X-Mess morning, 2017.



(Photo courtesy of the Englewood Public Library)


Opening in 1927, Safeway’s first Englewood location, was at 3401 South Broadway. The Englewood Public Library dates this photo as from 1936. However, that doesn’t quite make sense when matched up with the next picture.



(Photo courtesy of the Englewood Public Library)


Edited from Wasted Quarter #70 - Abandoned Englewood


“J.C. Penney operated a large two level department store on the southeast corner of Broadway and Girard, which was built in 1922. By 1935, when this picture was dated, Safeway had just moved from across Broadway, into the larger space next door. Safeway stayed next door to Penney's until 1951, before building a larger, modern -for it's day- supermarket at 125 East Hampden. Upon Safeway's departure, their store was divided in two retail spaces. The first half currently housing Orrs Trading Company, who deal in Native American art & craft supplies. I bought a genuine fox face here. It's creepy!”


Now it’s home to The Tabletop and Modern Ink Tattoo.


Wonder what ever happened to that creepy fox face? Haven’t seen it since Colorado, but I know I packed it somewhere...


Likely in the same box with at least 7 Sub Center sammich order slips.



125 East Hampden Ave. The home of Safeway from 1951-1984. After Safeway moved out, it eventually was remodeled into this The Health One building, which has been closed for a few years now. It may have reopened some point in the last year, but the last real activity on the property was around 2017. As far as I can tell, from what I remember, and periodic Googlesmobile drive by’s.


Edited from Wasted Quarter #70 - Abandoned Englewood


“Directly south of Orchard Place sits Health One Occupational Medicine and Rehabilitation. While looking like your basic one story health clinic from the outside, the interior gives away this building's previous life as a grocery store. Safeway built and operated out of this space from 1951, until 1984, when their new store was built two blocks southeast. The front of the building was redone, but the inside still has the arched ceiling, common to grocery stores of that era. Although I don't think Safeway had a pool. And if it did, why did they ever move?”



The new Englewood Safeway didn’t have a pool, but in the summer of 2003, they added a gas station! This photo is dated May 31, 2015. The prices are just little lower than gasoline of today. I wish a lot of things were still 2015, at least in the few months before this country lost its collective mind.



For a few days in the Summer of 2007, my ex worked at the Safeway gas station. Until she quit in a teary huff, because they told her she needed to clean up a mess in the public restroom. She was absolutely wrecked by this command. Failing to recognize that when you’re pushing 30, and have never worked toward any real career goals, and are the lowest position of a crappy retail totem pole… You get the shitty tasks! Literally and literally. You’re not being “picked on”, only asked to do what you’re being paid (slightly above minimum wage) to do. If you don’t like it, learn a skill more marketable than “retail worker who can’t hold a job”. 



Seconds before I took the September 2003 photo of Jim Paris Tire City, I snapped this photo of Safeway through my passenger window. You can see a small piece of the new gas station sign, through the windshield. Safeway was another target on the “places I want to remember” list, and was knocked out driving south on Logan. This is my only photo of the pre-remodel Safeway.


Makes me feel somewhat nostalgic for the old Blueberry Honksicle… That car reached a semi-dignified end of life, in the spring of 2018. Just before we moved to Minnesota, I knew it made no sense to try to lug it back to Minnesota, when I hadn’t been able to start it over the last few months. After declaring it dead, it was donated to that horrible commercial jingle that I’m not going to mention. Though, I’m betting that jingle is already stuck in your head. You’re welcome.


On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, my car died on the drive home from work. The chronic oil leak finally proved fatal. Likely assisted by the crappy winter Minnesota has put us through. Laura bought it January 2018, and sold it to me six months later, when she bought a new car. After the official declaration of death, that car has also been donated to the horrible commercial jingle. Ten and a half years after my last car. Which is interesting because the car that died a week ago, replaced the one I’d been driving since April, 2000.


I bet Jim Paris could have revived both of those cars!


Maybe not…



Reprinted from my story about the closed Safeway at Jewel and Sheridan: 


“Roughly 12 years later, I took a very blurry picture of it. Didn't feel like looking for that sales slip now, to scan or take a better picture of it. So you have to deal with this being all out of focus. I do know that I still have it, tucked inside one of my many folders.


September 26, 2003. 


My last shopping trip to the Englewood Safeway resulted in the following items being consumed:


2 12 packs of Diet Cherry Coke

1 Safeway Select something some Peach. (I don't remember what that abbreviation stood for.)

1 bag of Lays Original Deli Style Potato Chips

1 Package of Safeway Club Shortbread Cookies

1 bag of Safeway Club frozen Hash Browns

1 roll of Jimmy Dean Pork Sausage. (With hairs growing all over it… Then she gives me a look, that still chills me to this day.)


Grand total for all that... $18.65.


Wonder what that short list would cost today?


Sure ate healthy during my last few days before moving (back to Minnesota)…


But the Englewood Safeway was/is still open.”


Oh no, it’s not!


You know, I don’t remember, but now I’m wondering if this receipt for purchases made, wasn’t done just before I took that picture of the store?



Much like Safeway and Sub Center, I was introduced to Mama Mia’s shortly after moving to Englewood. One afternoon, when I was finished with some minor grocery shopping, the sign in the window for a pizza carry out special caught my eye. It was late 1996, and they were offering a medium single-topping pizza for carry out, at only $4.99 plus tax. Cheaper than a fast food combo meal, and even a bad pizza is better than poor quality drive through. 



Mama Mia’s menu, front side edition… As referenced for at work meals from 2005-2018. This download off the Googles isn’t dated, and the prices may be a little higher than I remember. Looks similar to all of the paper print outs we had laying around the prepress office.



Mama Mia’s menu, back side…



In later years, Mama Mia’s set up a small seating area in the front of their shop. Just down Logan Street, is Englewood High School. Around lunch hour, you’d see groups of kids walking from the school to The Shops at Hampden & Logan. Most would go to loiter at Safeway, but a few high rollers would buy their lunch at Sub Center or Mama Mia’s.



Framed picture hanging inside the waiting area. I read it nearly every time I stopped in to pick up food. This photo is from 2023, on the Googles. I think the frame only had broken glass in one corner, back in 2018.



This picture board, next to a blown up (in both size and price) take out menu, attached to Mama Mia’s window, is new. It’s dated August, 2023, and came from the Googles. Comparing the prices you can read, against the take out menu, shows just how much the cost of food in general has gone up.


And the wages? 


Not so much…


If I was looking out of Mama Mia’s window, many years earlier, I could have seen Jim Paris Tire City from that vantage point. Especially if Safeway’s gas station hadn’t been built yet. 


Now that’s an excellent segue!



Edited from Wasted Quarter #70 - Abandoned Englewood


“The north side of Jefferson was home to Jim Paris Tire City. The guy who ran the shop was decent, and assisted numerous times with Vanilla Honksicle repairs and oil changes through 2003. I could easily drop my car off, and walk three blocks back home to Kenyon, then walk back to pick my car up. When I returned to Englewood in 2005, the crew I had liked had all moved elsewhere. Now Jim Paris was staffed by illiterates that couldn't even spell CAR. So I never went back. Jim Paris closed for good in 2006. The dingy white and blue cement building sat empty, in a cocoon of nasty chemical smells until it was demolished in 2008.”


This shot November, 2007, from a Googlesmobile drive by shows a recently placed, temporary fence around the building. Always a sure sign that it’s about to get knocked down.



See, if you turn onto Logan, it’s only September 2007, and there’s no fence around Jim Paris Tire City!


It’s really too bad that I hadn’t started the whole taking pictures of abandoned buildings gimmick until Gates inspired me in 2013. Looking at the Jim Paris building with uncovered windows, meant I could have taken interior photos and had a real story here… 



Front Range Bank was built on the former Jim Paris Tire City property.


Yawn…



A suburb of Jim Paris Tire City, was this sorta Pizza Hut looking structure next door. Googles last listed it as McKinney Management, so that’s the name I’m going with. This photo was taken in June 2017, showing a new temporary fence around it. That included the small old house next door, that I didn’t take a picture of. Should have…



Here’s a shot of the back of an unfenced McKinney Management, from the Front Range Bank parking lot. This was May, 2015. It looks like McKinney was still Managementing here at that time. Though there is still the same for sale sign attached to it.



Less than a month after I took the fenced McKinney picture, in June 2017, that building and the small old house next door, were both demolished at the same time. 



X-Mess morning, 2017. Construction progressing on the two retail buildings that would replace them. The one on the left is a Vegan restaurant, while the right houses Club Pilates. Cool if that’s your thing, but I can’t imagine I’d do much business at either place. Of course I never Managed with McKinney or lived in that small old house either…



Next door to this new retail space is the Hampden Pet Hospital, operating out of an interesting looking building. Which is nothing compared to its past life as Backyard Adventures, which previously operated here…



Thanks to the Googles, for having images of Backyard Adventures from a September 2007 drive by. Not the greatest of images, but it shows how the former home playground equipment seller displayed their wares inside of an off-white castle. Complete with a green dragon hanging out on the second floor. It was like having a little piece of Super Mario World, right here in Englewood! 


Unfortunately, a large for sale sign appears on the front turret, so it wasn’t long after this the castle was gone. It was sad to see this building converted to something boring, after standing out for years on Logan street. 


They really should have kept the dragon. It would have almost worked with the idea of a pet hospital.



Let’s go back across the street, and shine a little spotlight on some of my favorite Safeway products over the years!



I’ve previously written about Crackles the Safeway Berry Squirrel, in reference to the year I lived in Littleton, off Ken Caryl and Pierce. Which also had a Safeway that I frequented, and grew to love Crackles and his sweet little berries…



But the Englewood Safeway was responsible for Mister Cookie Face!


Between 1996 and 2003, Safeway was also responsible for supplying food for General Hafaaz Supacat.



There I found Atta Cat! brand cat food. Surprised it still exists, although the packaging has changed quite a bit. What they changed really ruins the whole Atta Cat! experience. The upper left side of the bag has a ribbon graphic reading: “New Look! Same great taste your cat loves!” That new look is now all of the kibble pieces are just little Y shaped bits. In 1996, I was drawn to Atta Cat! because the kibble was in the shapes of letters: A, T and C. It was Alpha Bits for cats! 


(I tried to teach the General to eat the pieces in correct order to spell CAT, but he wasn’t interested.) 


Well, now cats can only spell YYY, or maybe YiY if a piece broke off… I hope that makes you happy, Atta Cat!


Your company is literally tanking the literacy raties in the feline demographic.



Low in fat with 11 essential Vitamins and Minerals and Androstenedione!


After the 1999 MLB season ended, Safeway partnered with St. Louis Cardinals star, Mark McGwire, to endorse his own brand of cereal. Which look a whole lot like generic Cheerios to me… While I never bought any, I remember seeing endcap displays of McGwire-O’s cereal boxes, sitting at Safeway for months. No one was interested in buying it.



However, I was a massive supporter of the Safeway Select Coconut Cream Pie. No Googles images of that elegant Safeway Select black, with white and gold packaging. But this is Safeway’s very own pie, according to the source. And who would lie about pie?



There were quite a few occasions where I would pop into Safeway for a few things, including a Safeway Select Coconut Cream Pie. (Like March, 13, 2016, for example) After finishing up there, I’d move the car across the lot to The Shops At Hampden & Logan, and park in front of Sub Center…



With windows covered in pictures of delicious sammiches!


(On January 6, 2014)


And stayed up for years after Sub Center closed!



I’d walk inside, take a sammich order slip, fill it out and drop it down the sammich order slide and wait patiently for my (typically) Turkey and Bacon sub! And whatever Laura wanted, if she was living with me at the time. 


(Thanks to Googles for providing a good photo of the Sub Center order counter. It was a distinctly unique method for ordering food, I’d wished I’d taken a picture of it when I could have.)



Now it’s oddly nighttime and blurry, as I’m leaving Sub Center. It’s also September 2013, as well…


So that’s strange.



Behind The Shops At Hampden & Logan, is an actual cluster of in-line retail Shops At Hampden & Logan. If you judge for accuracy of street address. I missed getting that small building at the far left in the shot, but you still get the pet groomers, competing dry cleaners and Shop ’n Go. A convenience store that replaced 7-11, when they were dropped in 1999. After a quick remodel, it reopened as under a new name. Pretty sure there were several names between 7-11 and Shop n Go. The last time I was inside, they had lots of porn and glass pipes for sale. True convenience shopping! 


But that’s another story...


Let’s get back to The Shops At Hampden & Logan (off Jefferson) and pick up a delicious pizza before going home!



Well, I just found out that Mama Mia’s is closed. Now it’s known as Max Pizza (and City Spice Indian Express). Similar menu to Mama Mia’s, but the online reviews aren’t as favorable. Take those reviews with the same skepticism you should with all online reviews. Which are always more about the reviewer, than whatever they’re reviewing.


Those reviews are all on the Googles, who provided me with some great uploaded photos to help with my eulogy.



This photo from August 2023 could have been August 2016, and I wouldn’t able to tell the difference. Right down to the hand-drawn pizza slice/Dorito chip, taped to the wall. I know I saw it person before 2018. Mama Mia’s menu next to it, likely has updated prices, but looks very similar to what I remember.



Mama Mia’s bacon cheeseburger. One of my menu go-to’s, when we’d order from work. Though this one looks like a double. I’d never considered doing that… The burgers also came with a quality garnish. Pickles, tomatoes and lettuce that were always fresh, and complimented the burger without insulting it. Another key distinction, Mama Mia’s used turkey bacon, which added to whatever seasonings they sprinkled on while grilling. The steak fries pair really well, and always arrived hot and crispy. Great value for your take-out dollar.


Reviews of Max Pizza burgers are nowhere near as favorable. 



Mama Mia’s calzone was another frequent order. Though at one point they changed the sausage from a crumble to a slice. Which changed the All Meat calzone dramatically. So I started ordering a custom one which worked out cheaper. Every once in a while, you could get one they accidentally dropped too much minced garlic into. Biting into a thick pile of minced garlic unexpectedly, isn’t quite the greatest dinner surprise. 


We ordered a late night dinner from Mama Mia’s quite often at my old place of employment in Denver…



I really miss that workplace dynamic.



Sub Center closed permanently in October, 2020. I found out about it on Facebook, not long after.



A couple of years later (December 10, 2022), I found a couple Sub Center poker chips and posted them to the Englewood group on Facebook. The top comment took me by surprise. 


ENHANCE!



Now there’s some SERIOUS shade!



Promotional Sub Center take out calendar menu, from 2009. Gimmick being, if you kept the calendar, it would again be accurate in 2015, and again in 2026. Which is why I had to write this story, because the calendar is relevant for the third time. After scanning the menu, it was tucked away for 2037. Will I get a fifth use from this calendar?


Taking a look at the state of this country today, I really hope not.



The Shops At Hampden & Logan (off Jefferson) sign will need some serious updating… 


Well, this picture is from 2015. Sub Center has been removed, according to a June 2025 Googlesmobile drive by. Mama Mia’s is still listed, as is Safeway at the top of the pile. 


Too early for a Spirit Halloween?






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