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by TenPoundHammer
08 Feb 2007 09:29
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: A&P "Centennial" Stores Still Housing Supermar
Replies: 48
Views: 57096

There's a Centennial in West Branch, MI that, I believe, is now split among Save-a-Lot, Family Video, and Hungry Howie's Pizza. Another in Alpena, MI was later a supermarket called "Ripley Street Station", which has now been closed for about five years. It was right next to a Tempo discoun...
by TenPoundHammer
08 Feb 2007 09:23
Forum: History: USA Midwest/Plains
Topic: Former A & P in my area
Replies: 7
Views: 6225

Former A & P in my area

Below is a picture of a vacant Carter's Foods (former A & P) in my town of Oscoda, MI. The store opened in the 1970s as an A & P, with Cunningham Drug (later Perry Drug, then Rite Aid, now vacant for 10+ years) next door. A & P closed when the A & P name disappeared from Michigan aro...
by TenPoundHammer
08 Feb 2007 09:08
Forum: History: Shopping Centers
Topic: Kmart Plaza Shopping Centers
Replies: 20
Views: 24832

Kmart foods

The nearest Kmart Foods to me that I know of was rather unusual in that it was attached to an enclosed mall (although neither Kmart nor Kmart Foods opened to the mall itself). There was also a Giantway (Mich.-based chain) behind the mall's other anchor (Federal's, later Burlington Coat Factory, then...
by TenPoundHammer
07 Feb 2007 22:14
Forum: History: Shopping Centers
Topic: Kmart Plaza Shopping Centers
Replies: 20
Views: 24832

Kmart Plazas

I would imagine that there were several Kmart Plazas/Shopping Centers/whatevers in Michigan. I believe that Port Huron and Portage had them. (Port Huron's no longer features a Kmart, although I believe it was still called Kmart plaza after Kmart left. It now has another name.)
by TenPoundHammer
28 Jan 2007 19:35
Forum: History: Department Store Chains
Topic: Woolworth Express
Replies: 3
Views: 4189

Summit Place Mall had a Woolworth Express for a while. How was Woolworth Express different from regular Woolworth? Just a smaller scale store?

Of course, plenty of malls had regular full scale Woolworths too.
by TenPoundHammer
22 Jan 2007 00:55
Forum: History: Department Store Chains
Topic: Best Products
Replies: 42
Views: 32545

Re: Best Products

Hey all, This is my first post in a community I've been observant of for some time now; it's good to be here. Does anybody recall having a Best Products store near them? There was one, maybe two, up/down here in Grand Rapids, Michigan that closed in the late 1990's. One of the buildings sat empty f...
by TenPoundHammer
20 Jan 2007 11:38
Forum: History: Department Store Chains
Topic: Ohrbach's Department Store
Replies: 53
Views: 64458

Jeff wrote:I remember that Lord And Taylor built a store at the Fashion Show in Vegas but decided not to open. I dont know if that store is the vacant anchor at the mall or the Bloomingdales Home store.
I'm pretty sure L & T is the vacant slot at Fashion Show.
by TenPoundHammer
20 Jan 2007 11:27
Forum: History: Department Store Chains
Topic: Rasco Tempo Discount Store
Replies: 15
Views: 26543

I've heard of Skogmo, I have a 1976 phone book which lists one in Lewiston, a very small ghost town about a half hour west of Alpena. It was listed under Variety Stores, so I'm guessing it was a Woolworth/Kresge type. We also had a bunch of Gambles stores around here. In fact, there's still a hardwa...
by TenPoundHammer
20 Jan 2007 11:24
Forum: History: Shopping Centers
Topic: Rockville Mall (MD) / Downtown Malls
Replies: 17
Views: 15573

I've heard of Fisher's Big Wheel, but I can't find a thing about them on the internet.

Were these Rock Hill and Painesville malls just called "Downtown Mall"? I'd like to know the specific mall name, as I'm working on a list of malls in the US.
by TenPoundHammer
18 Jan 2007 16:38
Forum: History: Department Store Chains
Topic: Rasco Tempo Discount Store
Replies: 15
Views: 26543

I don't know if it was related, but there was a Tempo discount store in this mall: http://mallsofamerica.blogspot.com/2006/10/indian-creek-mall.html Also, there was a Tempo discounter in Alpena, Michigan on Ripley Blvd. I think it became a Fisher's Big Wheel, and now it's partially occupied by Dolla...
by TenPoundHammer
18 Jan 2007 16:21
Forum: History: Department Store Chains
Topic: KMart Cafeteria and Other Restaurants
Replies: 72
Views: 95579

I think Charles Hathaway and I sighted an active KMart Cafeteria (now just a K Cafe labeled for "Family Dining") in Citrus Heights on Sunday. http://dtcwrt.earlracing.com/stores/ch.htm Is this the original chainwide motif for the booths, etc.? Wow... I've never seen anything like that bef...
by TenPoundHammer
18 Jan 2007 16:18
Forum: History: Shopping Centers
Topic: Rockville Mall (MD) / Downtown Malls
Replies: 17
Views: 15573

I would like to know more about the downtown malls in Rock Hill and Painesville. When did they open? Did they have anchor stores? Are they still standing? Heck, what were the malls' NAMES?
by TenPoundHammer
18 Jan 2007 16:17
Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
Topic: A site dedicated to odd fast food conversions
Replies: 18
Views: 11742

At the food court at the mall near me (Bay City, Michigan, about an hour from here), they used to have an A & W. It closed about three years ago and now operates as "H & W". They just put new letters in the oval! (Last I checked, some of the menu boards still had blacked out A &...
by TenPoundHammer
18 Jan 2007 03:05
Forum: History: Department Store Chains
Topic: Woolco
Replies: 43
Views: 45458

These are the Michigan locations that I know of for Woolco: Flint: Courtland Center (Eastland Mall at the time). When this store closed, 2/3 of it became Crowley Milner department store, and the rest became mall shops (B. Dalton, Rave, GNC, etc.). Crowley's closed in 1997, and the back half became a...
by TenPoundHammer
18 Jan 2007 02:57
Forum: History: Department Store Chains
Topic: Zody's
Replies: 88
Views: 72396

Michigan also had Zody's for the blink of an eye, they were all former "Yankee" locations. Yankee was a regional discount department store that had locations in Flint, Detroit, Port Huron, Bay City, Midland, Saginaw, Lansing, and Grand Rapids. I know that the Flint, Saginaw, and Port Huron...