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The first store was founded in 1938 as Longs Self-Service Drugs, by brothers Thomas and Joseph Long (son-in-law of Marion Barton Skaggs, co-founder of Safeway Inc.), when they opened their first store on Piedmont Avenue in Oakland, California. The first Longs in Hawaii opened on March 29, 1954, in Honolulu.
Sellers Bros. is a chain of grocery stores and convenience stores based in Houston, Texas, United States. The company was formed in 1921, [1] and its officers are George R. Sellers; Joseph L. Sellers; and John L. Sellers. [2] Sellers Bros. operates 12 supermarkets/grocery stores and five convenience stores. [3]
In the 1930s, Mr. Long borrowed $25,000 ($376,000 in 2018) to open a drug store with his younger brother, Joseph in Oakland.That store would become the first of a 274-store chain which in 1996 had annual sales of $2.5 billion in five states as of the time of his death.
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The Sagemont area houses the Sagemont Church. It built a 170-foot (52 m) Christian cross at Beltway 8 at Interstate 45, the largest roadside cross in Houston. [15] It was first established in 1966 as a mission of the Pasadena church First Baptist Church. Its current church building, 118,000 square feet (11,000 m 2) large, opened in 2012. This ...
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