DISCUSS!
Ok, here's a sketch of what clover stores would look like:
(http://img158.exs.cx/img158/9130/sketchoffirstcloverstore3zr.jpg)
All the stores did look like the above except the store in The Gallery Mall in Philadelphia, because it was a former Dept. store. It's now a Kmart.
The first store opened in Cherry Hill, NJ in 1971
All but one store closed in 1997. The one that stayed open in Egg Harbor, NJ was stuck in a lease and had to wait for another store to pick it up.
Clearer Pic:
(http://img128.exs.cx/img128/4579/cloverstore6zt.jpg)
The area where the logo is would have been a dark green color. I'll try to colorize the pic later.
The one in Warrington Pa. It went down in 1995 with the rest. It was boarded up until 2000 when they tore it down for a Home Depot. Idiots! :mad:
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The one in Warrington Pa. It went down in 1995 with the rest. It was boarded up until 2000 when they tore it down for a Home Depot. Idiots! :mad:
Wow, I live right near there and i shopped there quite a few times. (What is ironic is the huge new shopping center they are building across the street when the center next to the Home Depot/Clover is empty)
QuoteOriginally posted by MBZ321
Ok, here's a sketch of what clover stores would look like:
(http://img158.exs.cx/img158/9130/sketchoffirstcloverstore3zr.jpg)
All the stores did look like the above except the store in The Gallery Mall in Philadelphia, because it was a former Dept. store. It's now a Kmart.
The first store opened in Cherry Hill, NJ in 1971
All but one store closed in 1997. The one that stayed open in Egg Harbor, NJ was stuck in a lease and had to wait for another store to pick it up.
what kind of a town name Is egg Harbour?:insane:
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QuoteOriginally posted by storehistoryguy
The one in Warrington Pa. It went down in 1995 with the rest. It was boarded up until 2000 when they tore it down for a Home Depot. Idiots! :mad:
Wow, I live right near there and i shopped there quite a few times. (What is ironic is the huge new shopping center they are building across the street when the center next to the Home Depot/Clover is empty)
I am so angry about that new shopping center! I am not happy about it! Hey, maybe we've met when you've come to the Clover! I was a cashier there from 1993-1995.
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I like Clover's logo SSSSSSooooooo 1960's psychedelic!
What did Clover's interior look like?
It felt very Target-ish, except with a green sort of theme instead of red. I think the majority of the stores had snack bars, and they had pharmacies. I still see the carts floating around flea markets (a few ended up in Quakertown farmers market, and some of the old Dollar Tree stores)
As a side note, the Feasterville Clover (Value City) still has clover price stickers inside the freight elevator:yup:
QuoteOriginally posted by 76BraldorZayKamesfanBBTB
I like Clover's logo SSSSSSooooooo 1960's psychedelic!
What!?!? I love there logo! It went along. Its a clover and the name of the store was Clover.
QuoteOriginally posted by 76BraldorZayKamesfanBBTB
QuoteOriginally posted by storehistoryguy
QuoteOriginally posted by 76BraldorZayKamesfanBBTB
I like Clover's logo SSSSSSooooooo 1960's psychedelic!
What!?!? I love there logo! It went along. Its a clover and the name of the store was Clover.
I know I'm not insulting the logo I like it because it feels so modern and nostolgic like that old 1960s modernism
BTW I was commenting on the clover seen in the black & White photograph NOT the logo seen in the commercial
BASICALLY THE LOGO FIT FOR THE COMPANY AND IT WAS NICE!
Too bad it went GOB sigh:hurt::(
I don't think I've ever shopped at one.
And they would probably be still around too if Strawbrdiges (Strawbridge and Clothier) never sold their department stores to the May Company.
Clover brand bamboo knitting needles! :bounce:
Heres a Clover Brand needle case. *sigh* I miss that old logo. :)
Heres one of my two Clovers. This one is in Skippack Pa. and is a Kohl's today.
(http://www.kimcorealty.com/file/Aerial/SPAC0649_a.jpg)
http://www.kimcorealty.com/
Former Clover in Philadelphia Pa.
(http://www.tomasher.net/retail/retail071303_0007.jpg)
http://www.tomasher.net/deadretail.html
G.O.B Article:
CLOVER BEGINS LIQUIDATION SALE
Only 11 out of 26 stores leased
PHILADELPHIA -- Clover closed July 10, except for one of its 26 stores, for inventory and will begin liquidation sales about July 17 that will last through Oct. 1.
Clover will use the cash from the sale of inventory and fixtures to pay debts. The exception is the Penn Rose Plaza store in Southwestern Philadelphia, which will remain open because the landlord won't release Clover from its lease until a replacement comes along.
"We will be operating that store indefinitely," Clover general manager Warren White said.
The board of its parent, Strawbridge & Clothier agreed to sell the chain for its real estate value to Kimco Realty, which in turn will re-market the former Clover stores.
The only tenant to surface so far is Kohl's, which has agreed to lease 11 of the stores for its initial entry into the Philadelphia market. Some sites reportedly will become supermarkets, but no details were available.
Most of the Clover stores, averaging 80,000 sq. ft., were too small to interest Target, which is lining up Philadelphia real estate, and Wal-Mart,which is expanding in the market.
At one point, Wal-Mart reportedly was interested in four of the larger stores, a few of which range in size to 150,000 sq. ft., but Kimco so far has disclosed no firm deals except for Kohl's.
At press time, Strawbridge & Clothier stockholders were expected to ratify the $40 million Clover store sale in a special meeting set for July 15, along with another agreement to sell the 14 Strawbridge & Clothier Department stores to the May Department Store Company.
Kimco anticipates taking possession of the Clover sites Oct. 1. The Clover liquidation puts about 4,000 employees out of work.
Clover was founded in 1971, when it opened its first store in Marlton, N.J., part of the Philadelphia market.
The entrance of Wal-Mart into the Northeast put pricing pressure on the chain. And the troubles of Kmart, Bradlees, Caldor and Jamesway, which cut prices to raise cash, also forced Clover to slash prices and hastened its demise.
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Source: Discount Store News, 7/15/96, Vol. 35 Issue 14, p3, 1p
One of the last Clover stores to ever open (the last was the Gallery Mall store in Philadelphia a few months after this one)
WILMINGTON, DEL. -- Clover opened here May 5 its first store in four years and will follow that opening with another unit in downtown Philadelphia in August. The new Wilmington store measures 94,000 sq. ft., of which 85,000 sq. ft. is selling floor. That represents an increase of 15,000 sq. ft over the average Clover unit.
Including the two new units, Clover will end 1995 with 27 units, all in the Delaware Valley market around Philadelphia.
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Source: Discount Store News, 5/15/95, Vol. 34 Issue 10, p2, 1p
Former Ames and Clover in Cinnaminson, Nj.
(http://www.tomasher.net/retail/us130s-ames-clover.jpg)
(http://www.tomasher.net/retail/us130s-ames-clover2.jpg)
(http://www.tomasher.net/retail/us130s-ames-clover-sign.jpg)
http://www.tomasher.net/deadretail.html
My local Kohl's (Morton, PA) was built as a Clover. It still looks like a Clover, because Kohl's did not replace the storefront.
Clover price sticker:
Voorhees, NJ
Strawbridge's
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Former Clover in Philadelphia Pa.
(http://www.tomasher.net/retail/retail071303_0007.jpg)
http://www.tomasher.net/deadretail.html
My all-time favorite discount store chain. When Clover disappeared, it was like losing a piece of my childhood.
The store in this picture was the Clover on Frankford Avenue in Northeast Philadelphia. The KMart relocated from less than one mile away in an area with much less traffic.
Other Clover stores of my youth include:
- Rising Sun and Adams Avenues in Philadelphia, PA. This was a Woolco that became a Clover when Woolco shut its doors. It served as an anchor in the Rising Sun Plaza strip mall with an Acme grocery store, now an Asian supermarket. The Clover is now a National Wholesale Liquidators, but it only uses one of the two entrances that the Clover (and Woolco) had.
- Cottman and Castor Avenues in Philadelphia, PA. This was a multi-level Clover with escalators and an elevator, in a former Lit Brothers store. After Clover left, JCPenney moved in for a few years, before that shut down. Since then, the property has been relatively vacant except for at least one weekend when one of those traveling electronics expos went in. A Toys R Us is next door.
- US 130 in Cinnaminson, NJ. After Clover left, it became... drumroll please... an Ames! Now, it's an Outlet Marketplace.
A buddy of mine worked in the Feasterville, PA store (now a Value City), and another worked at the store in the Gallery Mall in Center City Philadelphia (now a KMart).
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QuoteOriginally posted by storehistoryguy
Former Clover in Philadelphia Pa.
(http://www.tomasher.net/retail/retail071303_0007.jpg)
http://www.tomasher.net/deadretail.html
My all-time favorite discount store chain. When Clover disappeared, it was like losing a piece of my childhood.
The store in this picture was the Clover on Frankford Avenue in Northeast Philadelphia. The KMart relocated from less than one mile away in an area with much less traffic.
Other Clover stores of my youth include:
- Rising Sun and Adams Avenues in Philadelphia, PA. This was a Woolco that became a Clover when Woolco shut its doors. It served as an anchor in the Rising Sun Plaza strip mall with an Acme grocery store, now an Asian supermarket. The Clover is now a National Wholesale Liquidators, but it only uses one of the two entrances that the Clover (and Woolco) had.
- Cottman and Castor Avenues in Philadelphia, PA. This was a multi-level Clover with escalators and an elevator, in a former Lit Brothers store. After Clover left, JCPenney moved in for a few years, before that shut down. Since then, the property has been relatively vacant except for at least one weekend when one of those traveling electronics expos went in. A Toys R Us is next door.
- US 130 in Cinnaminson, NJ. After Clover left, it became... drumroll please... an Ames! Now, it's an Outlet Marketplace.
A buddy of mine worked in the Feasterville, PA store (now a Value City), and another worked at the store in the Gallery Mall in Center City Philadelphia (now a KMart).
ive seen yor sight before i also liek teh caldor pic from teh village mall as of last year it was still there but is it there now ?
QuoteOriginally posted by Caldor1999
ive seen yor sight before i also liek teh caldor pic from teh village mall as of last year it was still there but is it there now ?
I'm glad you've visited my site, I apologize that it's so out of date.
The Village Mall site is about to be the new home of tenants from the former Pennsauken Mart. Pennsauken Mart was an indoor flea market-type place that has closed its doors due to some eventual redevelopment by the fine folks of Camden County, NJ. Here's an MSNBC.com link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13198164
I'll have to get up that way to take some pictures. I live about fifteen minutes from there.
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QuoteOriginally posted by Caldor1999
ive seen yor sight before i also liek teh caldor pic from teh village mall as of last year it was still there but is it there now ?
I'm glad you've visited my site, I apologize that it's so out of date.
The Village Mall site is about to be the new home of tenants from the former Pennsauken Mart. Pennsauken Mart was an indoor flea market-type place that has closed its doors due to some eventual redevelopment by the fine folks of Camden County, NJ. Here's an MSNBC.com link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13198164
I'll have to get up that way to take some pictures. I live about fifteen minutes from there.
if u want i can send ya some of my pictures of stores that i have visted in NY and CT i also nodiced u had a pic of the jamesway in Seavill NJ is that one still there btw?
I haven't been down in Seaville for quite some time. But I wouldn't be surprised if it's still standing.
QuoteOriginally posted by tomasher
I haven't been down in Seaville for quite some time. But I wouldn't be surprised if it's still standing.
yea it ident look in shuch bad shap well jugge from that pic its porbley there we have a jamesway up by me thats still standing its located in teh dutchesse mall it dosnet hvae a logo or muchs left its just the buliding theres a good amount of deal retil near me theres also a caldor up by me thats still vacant itsd located in middletown ny if u want i can send ya these pics
I was at a softball game last night and looking at a crate used for carrying ball. It didn't have any dairy name on it, so I looked on a side of it. And stuck there was a BIG Clover price sticker!
here is the vacant strawbridge's in whitehall (allentown) pa as of June 11, 2006.
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here is the vacant strawbridge's in whitehall (allentown) pa as of June 11, 2006.
whitehall, the mall phamplet says it will become boscov's./
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here is the vacant strawbridge's in whitehall (allentown) pa as of June 11, 2006.
whitehall, the mall phamplet says it will become boscov's./
whitehall one in the leigh valley mall.
here is the strawbridge's in plymouth meeting pa (near norristown) in the plymouth meeting mall. it looks old.
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here is the strawbridge's in plymouth meeting pa (near norristown) in the plymouth meeting mall. it looks old.
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here is the strawbridge's in plymouth meeting pa (near norristown) in the plymouth meeting mall. it looks old.
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here is the strawbridge's in plymouth meeting pa (near norristown) in the plymouth meeting mall. it looks old.
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here is the strawbridge's in plymouth meeting pa (near norristown) in the plymouth meeting mall. it looks old.
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here is the strawbridge's in plymouth meeting pa (near norristown) in the plymouth meeting mall. it looks old.
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King of prussia strawbridge's in the huge king of prussia mall in king of prussia pa as of June 10, 2006. IT is still OPEN THOUGH MACYS IS IN THE MALL!!!!!!
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King of prussia strawbridge's in the huge king of prussia mall in king of prussia pa as of June 10, 2006. IT is still OPEN THOUGH MACYS IS IN THE MALL!!!!!!
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King of prussia strawbridge's in the huge king of prussia mall in king of prussia pa as of June 10, 2006. IT is still OPEN THOUGH MACYS IS IN THE MALL!!!!!!
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2 Things:
1) Yes, the Strawbridge's in the Lehigh Valley Mall is becoming a Boscov's. I was there a month ago, and they are in the process of interviewing people for jobs in the new Boscov's.
2) The Strawbridge's at King of Prussia will become a new J.C. Penney and a Fortunoff. The old J.C. Penney will become a Target.
QuoteOriginally posted by KyleRF
2 Things:
1) Yes, the Strawbridge's in the Lehigh Valley Mall is becoming a Boscov's. I was there a month ago, and they are in the process of interviewing people for jobs in the new Boscov's.
2) The Strawbridge's at King of Prussia will become a new J.C. Penney and a Fortunoff. The old J.C. Penney will become a Target.
THANKS FOR THE INFO. I Will revisit the mall once those changes are made. I heard their flagship one may have been in philadelphia.
I have some pictures of the inside of the Lehigh Valley Mall, particularly the vacant Strawbridge's there. The labelscar is clearly visible, and so are the signs that say that you are in the Strawbridge's wing.
QuoteOriginally posted by KyleRF
I have some pictures of the inside of the Lehigh Valley Mall, particularly the vacant Strawbridge's there. The labelscar is clearly visible, and so are the signs that say that you are in the Strawbridge's wing.
I saw that in the mall, but I Do not take pictures inside the mall because I am more likely to get caught (on looking people will always be by and will report me to mall security) the doors where shut of the store.
Do you have pictures of the Strawbridge's at the Echelon Mall, by any chance?
Where did you hear this about a Target being added to the mall? I know Target bought the Strawbridge's on the Springfield Mall (delaware county), but havent heard anything about King of Prussia.
FYI: The Strawbridge's in KoP should have closed already, but it is stuck in some kind of lease agreement, which is the reason for both strawbridges and macys right now. I don't know why Boscov's didnt want/couldnt get it.
And the flagship Strawbridge (and Clothier) store in downtown Philly is no longer open as well, which is sad. The Wannamaker building nearby (was a Lord and Taylor) is being turned into a Macy's.
Hey Storehistoryguy, those are not Clover brand. Apparently, they are a fabric-work company. In my Hancock Fabrics, I saw something with that logo. I checked on the back and it made no mention of Clover stores. It's a different company
Well considering this thread has been active since 2005, yes, I think people may remember them a little bit hehe. They were a department store and they sold clothing.. like Macy's, Boscov's, etc.
The former Strawbridge & Clothier location, in Bensalem, PA:
The Strawbridge & Clothier, Bensalem, PA. Now Macy's:
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Clover brand bamboo knitting needles! :bounce:
Those needles are from a Japanese company not Clover stores. You can still buy those needles today.
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Hey Storehistoryguy, those are not Clover brand. Apparently, they are a fabric-work company. In my Hancock Fabrics, I saw something with that logo. I checked on the back and it made no mention of Clover stores. It's a different company
A different company indeed. It's a Japanese company!! They appear to have plagiarized Clover's logo! :holysh:
The Strawbridge's at the Springfield Mall has just been torn down for a SuperTarget! :no::flaming: This Strawbridge's was originally a Wanamaker's, then a Hecht's. There was an existing Strawbridge's which moved to this location in 1997. The old store became a Target and Bed Bath & Beyond, and Target bought the other Strawbridge's in 2005.
In Wilmington, DE, there is a plaza called Merchants Square, where a Strawbridge & Clothier has been abandoned since 1983!!! :holysh::huh:
Abandoned for 25 years:
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Abandoned for 25 years:
The former Wilmington, DE S&C.
Here's an old Clover flyer from 1995 advertising electronics. I also found a 1995 flyer from Jamesway, I'll upload that as soon as possible.
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was there a toy section in clover and a food section in clover?
Clover did have a toy department. clover didn't really have a food department.
Here is a picture of the former John Wanamaker/Hecht's/strawbridge's/Boscov's at Oxford Valley Mall, Langhorne, PA. This picture was taken in 1998, when it was strawbridge's.
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Former Clover in Philadelphia Pa.
(http://www.tomasher.net/retail/retail071303_0007.jpg)
http://www.tomasher.net/deadretail.html
My all-time favorite discount store chain. When Clover disappeared, it was like losing a piece of my childhood.
The store in this picture was the Clover on Frankford Avenue in Northeast Philadelphia. The KMart relocated from less than one mile away in an area with much less traffic.
Other Clover stores of my youth include:
- Rising Sun and Adams Avenues in Philadelphia, PA. This was a Woolco that became a Clover when Woolco shut its doors. It served as an anchor in the Rising Sun Plaza strip mall with an Acme grocery store, now an Asian supermarket. The Clover is now a National Wholesale Liquidators, but it only uses one of the two entrances that the Clover (and Woolco) had.
- Cottman and Castor Avenues in Philadelphia, PA. This was a multi-level Clover with escalators and an elevator, in a former Lit Brothers store. After Clover left, JCPenney moved in for a few years, before that shut down. Since then, the property has been relatively vacant except for at least one weekend when one of those traveling electronics expos went in. A Toys R Us is next door.
The Toys R Us that is next to the former Lit Brothers/clover/JC Penney opened originally as Food Fair Supermarket, then in the late 1960's became Pantry Pride Supermarkets
(when Food Fair changed the store names to Pantry Pride) This was the third Lit Brothers store to be open, after 8th & Market and 69th Street, Upper Darby.
Some more pics.
(http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/2981/clover001ky0.jpg)
(http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/7134/clover002tz8.jpg)
here is a pic of the Clover store at Cottman and Castor Avenue, in Philadelphia. This was origionally a Lit Brothers Department Store location.