LAST ISSUE OF THE FEDCO REPORTER IN 1999

 DISCOVERING OUR VALLEY  2011

Bob Peppermuller sends this along to The Museum Community:

Brief description -------This is the last issue of the FEDCO reporter before they went out of business in 1999. Front cover, back cover with membership card and pages 14 and 15. This issue was mailed out just before FEDCO announced they were going out of business. FEDCO (Federal Employees Distributing Company, 1949-1999) was located at 14920 Raymer Street between Van Nuys Blvd and Sepulveda Blvd.  They also had other locations across Southern California . FEDCO, I believe, was the first department store in Southern California to have controlled membership as a requirement for shopping there.

 

NOSTALGIA - JUST A PART OF OUR HISTORY

2010   THE YEAR OF VALLEY ADVENTURES

Your Museum collects information and artifacts about everyday life in the San Fernando Valley at different eras. Do you recall FedCo Membership Department Stores?  By selling to its "members" at wholesale, such big-box stores helped undermine traditional family owned retail stores such as the respected Hughes Markets grocery stores.

 Grocery store memorabilia courtesy of Mark and Meredith Davis of Chatsworth - Archives of The Museum of the San Fernando Valley - December 2010