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Ames => Stores => Topic started by: Ameskid on November 02, 2015, 02:28:54 AM

Title: Cincinnati, OH
Post by: Ameskid on November 02, 2015, 02:28:54 AM
There were at least three Ames store in Cincinnati and the surrounding area:

- One located in Hyde Park Plaza, in Hyde Park. Space was reused by bigg's, which was subsequently converted to a Remke (currently open).
- One located in Western Woods Mall, formerly a W.T. Grant, JC Penney and Zayre. Ames closed around 1991 and became a HomeGoods a few years later. Has since been demolished; a Home Depot stands on the site.
- One located in Hillcrest Square in Roselawn. Closed sometime in the early '90s and became a cheap furniture outlet before becoming a Roses seven years ago.

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/614/22701537185_e1713dc1ac_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/AA4j6x)Former Ames, Cincinnati, OH (https://flic.kr/p/AA4j6x) by Harvestman Man (https://www.flickr.com/photos/124303530@N08/), on Flickr

QuoteHillcrest lost the tenant that leased almost half its retail space when Ames department store closed several years ago.
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/1996/12/14/bus_notes.html

There may have been a fourth location at Beechmont Mall in Anderson Township. The store was once a Gold Circle and later a Hills, but I'm not sure if it was ever an Ames. It was later a Kmart and is now being partially demolished.

Unfortunately I don't know the store numbers of any of these...no pictures that I've found, either.
Title: Re: Cincinnati, OH
Post by: TheFugitive on November 02, 2015, 01:39:55 PM
Interesting.  Ames did not have a lot of stores in malls.
Defiance, Ohio is a notable exception that comes to mind.
Title: Re: Cincinnati, OH
Post by: BillyGr on November 03, 2015, 12:20:49 PM
Quote from: Ameskid on November 02, 2015, 02:28:54 AM
- One located in Hillcrest Square in Roselawn. Closed sometime in the early '90s and became a cheap furniture outlet before becoming a Roses seven years ago.

Seems sensible - Roses does seem kind of similar to what stores like Ames, Caldor etc. used to be.


Quote from: TheFugitive on November 02, 2015, 01:39:55 PM
Interesting.  Ames did not have a lot of stores in malls.
Defiance, Ohio is a notable exception that comes to mind.

The only one I can think of here was the one they got from Hills in the Berkshire Mall (just outside Pittsfield MA).  There may have been one in Watertown, but I don't know if that was the Ames or again the Hills they acquired.
Title: Re: Cincinnati, OH
Post by: Ameskid on April 09, 2017, 01:49:11 AM
Here's the Hyde Park location.  I suspect it's been pretty heavily renovated on the outside but am not sure what it would have looked like originally.

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2836/33006730164_0d6e7d3605_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ShG7Wy)Remke (former Bigg's and Ames), Cincinnati, OH (2) (https://flic.kr/p/ShG7Wy) by Harvestman Man (https://www.flickr.com/photos/124303530@N08/), on Flickr
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2876/33006726684_28a533063a_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ShG6Uy)Remke (former Bigg's and Ames), Cincinnati, OH (https://flic.kr/p/ShG6Uy) by Harvestman Man (https://www.flickr.com/photos/124303530@N08/), on Flickr