Back in 1981, Dee Smith made his last purchase of a group of stores before he passed away in 1984. This was the original purchase of 6 Market Basket stores and undeveloped sites in August and the purchase of two more stores in September.
Through the newsletters in the Dee Glen Smith Special Collection at USU and the Lucky's takeover ad on October 7th, 1984 it was fairly obvious where most of the Market Basket locations were. The Lucky-LA Times ad did not mention the two Antelope Valley stores.
During a recent trip to visit family, I had an opportunity to visit the Palmdale Public Library Special Collections and get the address's.
The Palmdale store was located at 25th and Avenue R. This site is now a vacant lot next to the high school. An October 1973 LA Times article announcing the construction of Market Basket had lead me to suspect this location.
The Lancaster location still exits as a partitioned Dollar store and other shops. It was located 10th and E Avenue J.
Below is the article in the Antelope Valley Press announcing the changeover to Lucky Food Stores.
An anomaly of the Lucky's 34 store buyout is the former Market Basket-Smith's Food King on Harbor Blvd in Costa Mesa. It appears Lucky didn't want the site and Smith's closed it just before the transfer on September 30, 1984.
