Cincinnati, OH

[Ameskid]

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.

Former Ames, Cincinnati, OH by Harvestman Man, on Flickr

Hillcrest 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.

[TheFugitive]

Interesting.  Ames did not have a lot of stores in malls.
Defiance, Ohio is a notable exception that comes to mind.

[BillyGr]

- 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.

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.

[Ameskid]

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.

Remke (former Bigg's and Ames), Cincinnati, OH (2) by Harvestman Man, on Flickr
Remke (former Bigg's and Ames), Cincinnati, OH by Harvestman Man, on Flickr