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Others I have seen:The very first Big Lots I ever went to was a former 3D Discount Center in Mattoon, IL which itself had been a Kroger Family Center. I wonder if this is related to the 3D Discount Center that bought a couple former Yankee/Zody's stores in Michigan? I know the Yankee stores in Esse...

http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=r4ktrk80yf2d&style=b&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&scene=10147990&encType=1 This is a strip mall with a dead Farmer Jack (née A&P), a Rite Aid in a former Perry, and a ve...

The store at Rogers Plaza in Grand Rapids used to have that logo. This store opened in 1960 with the mall, and stayed until 2001. It was demolished a couple years ago for AJ Wright (the only new-build AJ Wright I've ever seen) and a Family Fare Supermarket, the former of which opens out to the mall....

I have a vague recollection of Pic-Way here in Michigan. They usually opted for stand-alone stores for some reason. I know there was one across from Fashion Square Mall in Saginaw, and one next to the Baskin-Robbins in Bay City (oddly, the only B-R in the Tri-Cities for nearly 20 years), which still...

Does anyone know anything about this chain? I know that they had a large number of stores in 31 states and were bought out by Payless in 1994 (source: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-15770784.html ). What was the chain's history? Did it have any distinctive store features?

Minor update: I found that the Benton Harbor Jewel was still open until 1999.

1. Ypsilanti, MI, Grove at Emerick...visible from I94, I think this closed before 1994. Shopping center interesting also because the Farmer Jack had one of those tall yellow signs. Store has never reopened as anything else. 2. I remember seeing one in Adrian, MI, probably 1991 or so. Don't know if ...

Digging in Google News archives, I found that the first major round of Kmart closings came in 1994 with another in 1995. However, I have found a smattering of closures that predate the 1994 wave. I'm trying to find any Kmart stores that would have closed before that point and were not replaced by a ...

I found a couple of the old-school ones in Detroit:

19505 Grand River, Detroit, now a Corned Beef restaurant

449 N. Wayne, Westland, now a coney island

And one that's still open:

Royal Oak

I haven't found a whole lot of information so far, and am wondering if this was a predecessor to the "playlands" of today. Worth noting though is that this location did have both the park and a playland out front for a while. I actually did not look to see if this one still had the playla...

So, this was basically a really small mall, not a strip?

If I recall correctly, the exterior signage was a bit more condensed, in part because of the smaller facade (which was definitely not the green color that it is now -- I'm pretty sure it was a very dark brown). I want to say that the "K" was one piece of plastic instead of the two used in...

mobycat wrote:Not sure if it was mentioned previously in the thread...

Richmond, Indiana. Richmond Square Mall had a Kroger on one end. It's main entrance was outside, but they had a small hallway (basically, enough for a cart) to the mall interior.

Was this by any chance where the OfficeMax is now?

No, go ahead, I think it's okay to list former ones anywhere. Especially Michigan. Know of anymore in Detroitland?

Ephrata1966 wrote:Thanks so much! How did you ever find this?

A little thing called Google.