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Wondering about Safeway's Thanksgiving hours for 2023? Here's everything you need to know about the supermarket chain's holiday openings and closings.
The initial public offering price of Safeway stock was $226 in 1927 (equivalent to $3,964 in 2023). A five for one split in 1928 brought the price down to under $50 (equivalent to $887 in 2023).
Several years later, they changed the company's name to Haggen Inc. The store continued to prosper and by the 1960s, Haggen expanded beyond Bellingham. With the company incorporated on January 30, 1962, [7] a store was opened in Everett, Washington, in 1962 and a 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m 2) store in Lynnwood, Washington, in 1968. [8]
Safeway later acquired Pay and Take It Stores from Loronzo L. Skaggs in 1928. [4] Safeway is considered the main successor to Skaggs, and despite the Skaggs Companies later being bought by Albertsons, Safeway was also acquired by Albertsons, thus bringing the Skaggs history full-circle.
The Reptile Zoo, formerly the Washington Serpentarium, is a roadside animal park for reptiles that is located on U.S. Route 2 east of Monroe. The 3,000-square-foot (280 m 2 ) building houses 150 creatures and attracts 40,000 annual visitors. [ 138 ]
The city of Monroe replaced the eastern half of SR 522's interchange with Main Street (164th Street Southeast) with a roundabout, the first to be built in Snohomish County, in 2001. [82] The first stage of the corridor project, completed in 2001, widened a section between SR 9 and Paradise Lake Road (SR 524) in Maltby at a cost of $22 million.
The Snohomish County Fair moved to Granite Falls in 1922 and was later replaced by community fairs, named the Cavalcade of Valleys, in areas around Monroe during the Great Depression and World War II. The county fair was moved permanently to Monroe, opening at the modern-day fairgrounds on September 5, 1946, and renaming itself to the Evergreen ...
Monroe North is a census-designated place (CDP) in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. The population was 1,796 at the 2020 census . [ 1 ] The CDP comprises an area north of the city of Monroe that includes the Evergreen State Fairgrounds .