For anyone trying to find a working Ames Store Locator, I found this Wayback Machine capture from 2007 which still works. Because it's older, info added between 2008 and 2019 may be missing.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070224170609/http://www.amesfanclub.com/store.loc.htm
Sorry for the radio silence... life... got in the way. Store locator has been updated to work with modern browsers. Also created a new google based store locator at the bottom. Jason Gallagher sent me an 80s store list of Florida locations among others. Current count is about 949 locations. Lets keep it going!