Minyard Food Stores

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.

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STEVEN E. WANDERSCHEID

I believe they're in a mansion in Preston Hollow laughing and rolling around in a basement full of $100 bills. I know that's what I'd be doing in their place.

Jon Minyard of the Minyard Food Store family, the grandson of AW Minyard, is currently one of my customers. I take care of his 1954 Nash Metropolitin that he has had since high school in 1961, I believe. He currently has Minyard Fine Arts Studio and is a sculpture of bronze. He recently purchased a 1921 Texaco gas station in Grove Hill and turned it into his studio and home.

[b]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]



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/10/2010 12:29PM by rojinks.

if I remember correctly met a Minyard about 35 years ago
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



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We used to live on Martinique which ran perpendicular to Lindsley and next to the store. It was still a Minyards in 1984 when I moved away to Garland. The store is on the site of the first Minyards ever opened. After that they changed it to a Carnival which was a Hispanic-themed Minyards chain. Don't know what is there now.

their first store was on lindsey

rojinks Wrote:
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> 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, 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.

opelgt70 Wrote:
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> 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.

I guess loading docks were not real common back then,as I worked at an independent VW shop where they would buy VW engine cores back from Germany that we would tear down to salvage what we could out of them.So we would get 40ft trailers full of these engines that we had to unload. We had no loading dock either,but had a forklift. But our forklift was a shop forklift with small smooth tires and we had to go down a dirt driveway to get to the trailer. So every now and then it would get stuck or fall over.But any way,when we got it to the truck we could pick out the first row of stacked crated engines with the forks, then we would have to start pulling these 200lb crates off the top of the stacks and set them at the edge of the trailer so the forklift could get it. We built stairways out of these crates as we worked are way to the front of the trailer,and walk up the stairway for the next top one and struggle getting the next one down. I will tell you, after doing this all day my arm muscles got huge, but was incredibly dead tired at the end of every day

I 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



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 04/14/2012 04:04PM by rojinks.