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Title
Piggly Wiggly store, Piedmont Avenue, Oakland [picture]
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1920s
Publication Information
Oakland Public Library
Contributing Institution
Oakland Public Library, Oakland History Center
Collection
Selections from the Collections of the Oakland History Center
Rights Information
Copyrighted.
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Nonexclusive reproduction rights granted to the Oakland Public Library.
Description
Title from item. Glass negative number in Oakland History Room's collection: G-122. The proprietors of the Piggly Wiggly store at 3966 Piedmont Avenue used the display windows to proclaim that "We double dog dare anyone to undersell this store." The Piggly Wiggly name would eventually disappear on the West Coast, replaced by the Safeway designation.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 13 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt729026bm
copl_185
Neg. G-122
Subject
Grocery trade - California - Oakland - Pictorial works
Supermarkets - California - History - Pictorial works
Piggly Wiggly Pacific Company - Pictorial works
Safeway Stores, Inc. - History - Pictorial works
Place
Oakland (Calif.) - History - Pictorial works.

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