DUARTE SHOPPING CENTER: CORONET, ALPHA BETA, & SNYDER'S MEATS
I loved this shopping center back in the day.
What's that, about 1964? Coronet was a great place for a kid. It was the
five-and-dime-store that everyone in Duarte loved. It had two levels, the storefront level and then the downstairs. The interior was almost an S&H Green
Stamp green, which for a kid made it intriguing. There was an Alpha Beta
store just west of the Coronet in the same lot. My dad used to tell us
that he designed the little Alphie cowboy with lasso. Further east in the
center was Snyder's Meats. That place was THE place in Duarte.
There was also the Duarte Market up at Highland and Royal Oaks. Snyder's
could have even owned the meat section in that store as well.
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