This is now a Home Depot
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v41/CorporateA/more/11_12_38_8-08132012-10000117A.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v41/CorporateA/more/11_12_38_8-08132012-10000117B.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D761lai44w
This was not the only Ames in Miami, this video shows another former Zayre/Ames in another location in Miami back in 1998.
This location surely closed in 1991 or so, but you can still see the Ames labelscar at 0:54
Quote from: TRJ_22487 on January 17, 2013, 06:45:21 PM
This is now a Home Depot
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v41/CorporateA/more/11_12_38_8-08132012-10000117A.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v41/CorporateA/more/11_12_38_8-08132012-10000117B.jpg)
Did Home Depot open their store in this exact former Ames/Zayre location or did Home Depot have this former Ames/Zayre building demolished before building a new store?
I think they are still the same buildings with heavily renovated storefronts, windows removed, doors moved, etc...
Reading online reviews this is considered a very small Home Depot and does not have a garden section.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v41/CorporateA/more/Miami_Ames_1990_2013.jpg)
Here is the sign
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v41/CorporateA/more/Miami_Ames_Sign.jpg)
Here is the supermarket next door that seems to have kept the vintage windows
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v41/CorporateA/more/Miami_Ames_Supermarket.jpg)
Crusin around on Google Maps I found an old school McDonalds and standalone Taco Bell right at the mouth of the plaza.
Here is another photo of the Ames in Miami, Florida
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v41/CorporateA/more/1990_Miami_Ames_zps3ff841f2.jpg)
Here is the Ames in Hialeah, Florida which also closed in 1990. You can see in this photo that they used metal carts and had bags with logos at the bottom
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v41/CorporateA/more/1990_Hialeah_FL_zpsdde1d57b.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v41/CorporateA/more/1990_Hialeah_FL_2_zps4a7364dd.jpg)
January 11, 1990|By EARL DANIELS, Business Writer
Ames Department Stores Inc. is dismissing 85 employees at its corporate offices and changing the names of 61 Zayre stores to Ames, including 15 in South Florida.
"There are 15 Zayre stores in South Florida: six in Miami; two in North Miami Beach; two in Fort Lauderdale; and one each in Lauderhill, Pompano Beach, Hallandale, Hialeah and Homestead. There are no Zayre stores in Palm Beach County."
Here is the address to this former Ames current day
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v41/CorporateA/more/2012_Hialeah_Kohls_zps5f37ae8e.jpg)
These are still not in the store locator.
I still can't believe these locations were never put in the store locator after I posted these. The locations aren't even listed at all. These were very short lived Ames!
Quote from: TRJ_22487 on January 31, 2015, 09:25:14 AM
I still can't believe these locations were never put in the store locator after I posted these. The locations aren't even listed at all. These were very short lived Ames!
Yup. I got sent to Florida in the fall of 1989 to help convert a Zayre to an Ames.
Barely a year later they were all shutting down.
Glad I did not take the offer of a transfer.