Anyone know what this Hobby Lobby in the Cassinelli Square shopping center in Cincinnati used to be?
http://maps.live.com/#JnE9eXAuMTEzODArU ... g5MDYyNQ==
It looks kind of like it could have been a Zayre or Hills.
If anyone else has any other info on the Cassinelli Square, that'd be nice too. It seems to have been "demalled" in 1991.
Mystery store in Cincinnati
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Most Zayre stores I've seen were more rectangular: wider and not so deep. You say there was once a mall there? Could it have been a Woolco? They often had small malls attached, and something about the indentations in the facade looks a little Woolcoesque to me.
Hmmm. I don't think I very much like the idea of "Woolcoesque" becoming a regularly-sued term.
Hmmm. I don't think I very much like the idea of "Woolcoesque" becoming a regularly-sued term.
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It could very well have been a Woolco in the past; I have at least found through further digging that the building was a Home Quarters into the 1990s. The half to the left (north) of the Hobby Lobby entrance is still vacant. It was evidently a very small mall running from Service Merchandise (now Haverty's Furniture) on the north to the HQ space on the south.Groceteria wrote:Most Zayre stores I've seen were more rectangular: wider and not so deep. You say there was once a mall there? Could it have been a Woolco? They often had small malls attached, and something about the indentations in the facade looks a little Woolcoesque to me.
This mall was demalled around 1995 from what I can find, with the former mall space mostly being divided among Toys (backward "R") Us, Office Depot, and Big Lots (there might have also been a Linens 'n Things originally). Big Lots is still there, but both Office Depot and TRU are closed.
Heh... now THAT was funny.Groceteria wrote:Hmmm. I don't think I very much like the idea of "Woolcoesque" becoming a regularly-sued term.
Re: Mystery store in Cincinnati
I remember this location. It originally had a Service Merchandise on the other end, and I remember the HQ. I believe that it was built specifically for the HQ.