Then and Now: Logsdon IGA Foodliner at 29th and Regal
Family-owned grocery stores banded together in the early 20th century to compete with larger national chains as part of the Independent Grocers Alliance, or IGA. Foodliner was added later as a name for a particularly larger IGA store, including the shop on East 29th Avenue that had previously operated under the name Harrington’s Mercantile.
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At the corner of 29th Avenue and Regal Street, the Logsdon IGA Foodliner seen here in a 1960 photo was an independent grocery store, even as many chains of stores were populating the retail grocery business. The store building was owned by the Harrington family since the 1920s, though Loren Logsdon and William P. Owen from around 1950 to around 1980.
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The site of a longtime IGA grocery store at 29th Avenue and Regal Street, seen here in 2020, on Spokane’s South Hill is now just an empty basement after the structure was torn down in 2016 following a fire that damaged the building and nearby storefronts. The site is owned by developer Harlan Douglass.
Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Review
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