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Defunct Retail => Defunct Department Stores => Topic started by: richway987 on November 09, 2011, 01:28:54 AM

Title: Mystery Store
Post by: richway987 on November 09, 2011, 01:28:54 AM
Any ideas as what this store could have been, if anything? It's on Franklin Blvd in downtown Gastonia, NC.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=800+West+Franklin+Boulevard+Gastonia,+NC+28052-3833&hl=en&ll=35.262335,-81.193192&spn=0.000018,0.010568&sll=35.262387,-81.194138&layer=c&cbp=13,347.29,,0,1.65&cbll=35.262334,-81.193295&hnear=800+W+Franklin+Blvd,+Gastonia,+North+Carolina+28052&t=h&z=17&vpsrc=0&panoid=sR6t7wrurVptiuf2T8EcYw
Title: Re: Mystery Store
Post by: Kmart4life on November 09, 2011, 01:04:23 PM
Kind of looks like the last incarnation of our Wards before they went out. I mean it has that feel.
Title: Re: Mystery Store
Post by: C. Fontaine on November 11, 2011, 09:31:54 AM
Wow, I'd love to know what that was.
Title: Re: Mystery Store
Post by: nims57 on November 22, 2011, 07:21:49 PM
Quote from: C. Fontaine on November 11, 2011, 09:31:54 AM
Wow, I'd love to know what that was.

Just so you know I left you a personal message
Title: Re: Mystery Store
Post by: richway987 on December 01, 2011, 08:15:59 PM
Well it appears that it was a Sears:
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OepCTSihxPo/SQUmkiEN3XI/AAAAAAAACKc/m3WnLHQMLjI/s1600/searssept70001.jpg)
Title: Re: Mystery Store
Post by: C. Fontaine on December 02, 2011, 12:10:05 PM
Quote from: richway987 on December 01, 2011, 08:15:59 PM
Well it appears that it was a Sears:
Wow!  Great work!