Fry's vs. The Flying Saucers
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Both Fry’s locations in the San Fernando Valley – the 100,000-square-foot Burbank store, built in 1996, and the 115,000-square-foot Woodland Hills store, built in 1995 – feature fantastic imagery for customers to gaze upon.John Fry decided Burbank’s proximity to the motion picture industry lent itself particularly well to a 1950s science-fiction B-movie theme. When it came time for Christensen to conduct his research, the designer went to a previous employer for help.
“I went out to George Lucas’s Skywalker Ranch, which I had worked on and designed for a number of years. I went to the library and checked out a bunch of science-fiction movies from his collection,” Christensen says.