What ever happened to Lisbeth "Liz" Minyard and Gretchen Minyard Williams after the Minyard family sold the grocery business to the other investors in 2004 after 72 years of family business? There were 62 Minyard Food Stores and 10 Sack 'n Save stores but it is now 16 stores including 2 Sack 'n Save stores. How sad. More information on the Minyard Food Stores, click this link: [en.wikipedia.org] STEVEN E. WANDERSCHEID http://dallashistory.org/phorum/read.php?2,70231,70231#msg-70231 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:33:35 -0700 Phorum 5.2.16 http://dallashistory.org/phorum/read.php?2,70231,78895#msg-78895 http://dallashistory.org/phorum/read.php?2,70231,78895#msg-78895 worked at the minyards on n west highway at lemmon now marsh ln in the late fifties i well remember stripping mopping and and waxing the floors we did that every friday night i believenow they have floor crews with butane powered machines to do the job we also mopped the store every night before we could go home but the wax job kept the floors looking good all week with just a mopping at night so they looked great when we opened in the moprning ]]> rojinks DHS Archives Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:36:21 -0800 http://dallashistory.org/phorum/read.php?2,70231,70385#msg-70385 http://dallashistory.org/phorum/read.php?2,70231,70385#msg-70385 opelgt70 DHS Archives Tue, 14 Sep 2010 05:07:29 -0700 http://dallashistory.org/phorum/read.php?2,70231,70384#msg-70384 http://dallashistory.org/phorum/read.php?2,70231,70384#msg-70384 -------------------------------------------------------
> Sharkins, When was it you worked at that minyards?
> As I used to work over near Fair Park around
> 1975, I was the night attendant at a Fina station
> at S. Haskell and Berry St. And I heard gunshots
> every night around there. My boss had supplied me
> with a sawed off double barrel Shotgun and a mean
> Doberman Pincher on a 20ft chain. I never had any
> problems working there. The old Doberman to care
> of business just fine.


I was there in '77 and '78. We always had an off-duty Dallas cop in the store, working security, and we had a fence (one of those made from 1" square tubing) around the front sidewalk, with gaps just wide enough that so customers couldn't take the carts into the parking lot (so they wouldn't disappear).

One time a cop got into a fight with a 13-year-old girl, on the front sidewalk, because she wouldn't put down a big stick she was swinging around (he considered it a weapon). As the tussle continued, a noisy crowd gathered (and no, they weren't rooting for the cop), so one of our co-managers pushed the armed robbery button on his belt (by this time the girl had the cop bent over backwards, onto the hood of a car). We had half a dozen patrol cars there in under a minute. Fortunately, the girl gave up, was arrested, and crowd dispersed. We also didn't have a loading dock, so our truck would park alongside the building, and we'd have to unload our stock onto "four-wheelers" (four-wheeled carts) and take them in through the front door. Ugh.

My least favorite jobs? Cleaning out the incinerator (yes, we had one of those). And stripping, waxing, and buffing the floors.]]> sharkins DHS Archives Tue, 14 Sep 2010 04:22:57 -0700 http://dallashistory.org/phorum/read.php?2,70231,70373#msg-70373 http://dallashistory.org/phorum/read.php?2,70231,70373#msg-70373 opelgt70 DHS Archives Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:57:39 -0700 http://dallashistory.org/phorum/read.php?2,70231,70368#msg-70368 http://dallashistory.org/phorum/read.php?2,70231,70368#msg-70368 -------------------------------------------------------
> their first store was on lindsey

Which is now a Malone's "Cost Plus", which is a ripoff if there ever was one. During high school, I worked at Minyard #14, which was on Grand Ave. at Trunk, south of Fair Park. There's nothing like standing outside and hearing gunshots. Across the street (for a short time) was "Lucifer's", a nightclub owned by Harvey Martin.]]> sharkins DHS Archives Mon, 13 Sep 2010 06:30:55 -0700 http://dallashistory.org/phorum/read.php?2,70231,70327#msg-70327 http://dallashistory.org/phorum/read.php?2,70231,70327#msg-70327 their first store was on lindsey]]> rojinks DHS Archives Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:30:48 -0700 http://dallashistory.org/phorum/read.php?2,70231,70319#msg-70319 http://dallashistory.org/phorum/read.php?2,70231,70319#msg-70319 Mark Ritchie DHS Archives Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:27:20 -0700 http://dallashistory.org/phorum/read.php?2,70231,70284#msg-70284 http://dallashistory.org/phorum/read.php?2,70231,70284#msg-70284 he lived in a house off Lindsley right close to a retail place that I think they said was the site of a former Minyard store]]> bug DHS Archives Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:17:00 -0700 http://dallashistory.org/phorum/read.php?2,70231,70281#msg-70281 http://dallashistory.org/phorum/read.php?2,70231,70281#msg-70281 ]sonny williams one of the big shots at minyards, and his wife gretchen ,one of the minyard girls, bought the highland park pharmacy and are running it now the minyards were my heroes until they sold out. they had fought the good fight against tom thumb, krogers and albertson and lost no ground, i guess they just tired of the grocery wars[/b]]]> rojinks DHS Archives Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:49:05 -0700 http://dallashistory.org/phorum/read.php?2,70231,70244#msg-70244 http://dallashistory.org/phorum/read.php?2,70231,70244#msg-70244 opelgt70 DHS Archives Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:14:05 -0700 http://dallashistory.org/phorum/read.php?2,70231,70237#msg-70237 http://dallashistory.org/phorum/read.php?2,70231,70237#msg-70237 wmayfield DHS Archives Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:21:27 -0700 http://dallashistory.org/phorum/read.php?2,70231,70231#msg-70231 http://dallashistory.org/phorum/read.php?2,70231,70231#msg-70231
More information on the Minyard Food Stores, click this link: [en.wikipedia.org]


STEVEN E. WANDERSCHEID]]> EtienneUS DHS Archives Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:23:53 -0700