Abandoned A&P, Mid-Cities Mall, Manitowoc WI
Posted: 02 Feb 2009 17:16
Here in Manitowoc, there is an abandoned shopping center known as the Mid-Cities Mall, or (by its later-period name) Lakeview Centre. The mall opened in 1968...and like a number of other early malls, it included its own supermarket.
I took a handful of pictures of the mall a few days ago:
The supermarket was structurally connected to the rest of the mall, although it lacked access to the interior corridor. The store opened as an A&P in 1968, and later changed to a Supervalu franchise when A&P (initially) pulled out of the area in the midst of its "meltdowns" of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Labelscar from the Supervalu "S" sign is still visible today. I'm not entirely sure when the store closed, but it was probably at least a decade ago by this point. The entire mall interior (save JCPenney) was closed in 2000.
The entire exterior of the mall was covered in vertically-channeled concrete facing, and I'd expect that the store is not necessarily representative of any A&P architectural design.
This is a close-up view of the entrance, which is a pretty standard late '60s automatic door configuration. (I wonder if the "In" and "Out" decals hark back to the days of A&P?)
Finally, here's a view into the store interior, made possible by a shutter speed of one second. The floor tiling and courtesy desk are plainly visible. I'm a bit intrigued by the black things dangling from the back wall, but they're probably lights that overlooked the meat cases, or something along those lines...
Any questions or comments are welcome.
I took a handful of pictures of the mall a few days ago:
The supermarket was structurally connected to the rest of the mall, although it lacked access to the interior corridor. The store opened as an A&P in 1968, and later changed to a Supervalu franchise when A&P (initially) pulled out of the area in the midst of its "meltdowns" of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Labelscar from the Supervalu "S" sign is still visible today. I'm not entirely sure when the store closed, but it was probably at least a decade ago by this point. The entire mall interior (save JCPenney) was closed in 2000.
The entire exterior of the mall was covered in vertically-channeled concrete facing, and I'd expect that the store is not necessarily representative of any A&P architectural design.
This is a close-up view of the entrance, which is a pretty standard late '60s automatic door configuration. (I wonder if the "In" and "Out" decals hark back to the days of A&P?)
Finally, here's a view into the store interior, made possible by a shutter speed of one second. The floor tiling and courtesy desk are plainly visible. I'm a bit intrigued by the black things dangling from the back wall, but they're probably lights that overlooked the meat cases, or something along those lines...
Any questions or comments are welcome.