Unidentified store

[jmn3]

Haha...glad to help out.  But I have to say, I am perplexed as to what was in that Clarence Mall building.  I'm a southtowner, so while I do have a knowledge of what goes on up north, I don't seem to remember much ever going on at the Clarence Mall during my twenty four years!  

And by the way, thanks for all the great pics you are posting of the stores around town.  Have you got anymore of the downtown stores??  Aside from AM&A's, there are a ton of old stores still sitting down there waiting for their pics to be taken!  Woolworth's, Kleinhans, Hengerer's/Sibley's, Hens & Kelly's, LL Berger's, and a lot more that I can't think of right now.  Plus, we still have the old Sears store on Main and Jefferson.  It's now the home of BlueCross BlueShield (for a few years anyway until they move back downtown).  And we can't forget the free-standing Hengerer's/Sibley's on Main and Eggert in Eggertsville.  That's now an office building but the building itself is still intact.

[Jag67]

I know, I've been thinking about pics of those places for a while. I'll get some eventually. BTW, you know the Old Big Lots in Colvin Plaza in Tonawanda? That was a very old and outdated and very dirty and very scary store when it closed. It had the old ugly Big Lots logo too (The cooper-style one). Do you know when that was built, or any info? here's a pic of it today-

[jmn3]

That plaza, Colvin-Eggert, was built in the 60's.  Not too sure of all of it's history, but back when I was a youngster, the Big Lots building used to be a Super Duper.  It never made it to Jubilee, I think the store closed around '91 or '92.

[Jag67]

so you're saying the big lots is only around 13-14 years old??!!! By the looks of it, I thought it was from the 70's!!! Man, it loooks pretty beat up for it's age (Well, not really. There's a BL that just opened near us last year that's already starting to look like a craphole) I don't think they renovated the insides much!!

[truviking05]

What is a Cooper-style Big Lots sign?

[76&AmesfanmanBBTB]

Originally posted by truviking05
What is a Cooper-style Big Lots sign?

I was going to ask the same question

I think he means this sign the old big lots sign before they went "big orange exclamation point":insane:

[76&AmesfanmanBBTB]

heres big lots current logo

I don't like it it makes the store look even cheaper!:barf:

[jmn3]

Originally posted by Jag67
so you're saying the big lots is only around 13-14 years old??!!! By the looks of it, I thought it was from the 70's!!! Man, it loooks pretty beat up for it's age (Well, not really. There's a BL that just opened near us last year that's already starting to look like a craphole) I don't think they renovated the insides much!!

Well the building itself is a lot older, but Big Lots was probably only there about 10 years.  I don't remember any Big Lots in WNY before the early 90's.  I think the chain itself, along with some of the shoppers it attracts, are reasons why even their newest stores look like a craphole!!

Have you seen the one in Dunkirk?  It's at the D&F Plaza and used to be a local store out that way...i think Sidey's.  Well, anyway, that store is such a junked up place.  It's been there about 10-13 years I would say and just looks beaten.  Then you take a store like Bon-Ton or Kaufmann's at Walden Galleria, after 15 years, still look pretty good.

[76&AmesfanmanBBTB]

Heres what the interior looks like  or supposed to look like :boring:

[76&AmesfanmanBBTB]

exterior:boring:

[76&AmesfanmanBBTB]

heres a different exterior I like this one better

[76&AmesfanmanBBTB]

WHOOPS THIS IS NOT A THREAD FOR BIG LOTS DOH!!!!!:duh::duh::duh::duh::duh::duh:


I'LL GET THE EXCESS POSTS OF BIG LOTS OFF AND INTO THE RIGHT THREAD AS SOON AS I CAN!

[76&AmesfanmanBBTB]

Originally posted by 76&AmesfanmanBBTB
WHOOPS THIS IS NOT A THREAD FOR BIG LOTS DOH!!!!!:duh::duh::duh::duh::duh::duh:


I'LL GET THE EXCESS POSTS OF BIG LOTS OFF AND INTO THE RIGHT THREAD AS SOON AS I CAN!

I got rid of the excess big lots stuff sorry if I got off topic

BTW leave the current posts with pictures

they are relevent in showing that Big Lots has different logos and different exterior types

I'M NOT SAYING THEY'RE UNIQUE THOUGH! :bouncing:



BTW for that unidentified store?

I still think its a Woolco:bouncing::dizzy:

[Jag67]

Originally posted by 76&AmesfanmanBBTB

WHOOPS THIS IS NOT A THREAD FOR BIG LOTS DOH!!!!!

opps sorry lol

Hey btw, I guess it's not really cooper-style but it is kinda. It looks kinda like that red one only the letters were orange and bigger and more spaced apart.I still can't get over it's been there such a short period, I thought it was there 20+ years!!

Anyway, getting back on topic, the mystery store has these little "Privacy-style" sindows on the side of the store..Maybe a clue of what it was? The windows all have this gross white stuff on them.

[76&AmesfanmanBBTB]

Originally posted by Jag67
Originally posted by 76&AmesfanmanBBTB

WHOOPS THIS IS NOT A THREAD FOR BIG LOTS DOH!!!!!

opps sorry lol

Hey btw, I guess it's not really cooper-style but it is kinda. It looks kinda like that red one only the letters were orange and bigger and more spaced apart.I still can't get over it's been there such a short period, I thought it was there 20+ years!!

Anyway, getting back on topic, the mystery store has these little "Privacy-style" sindows on the side of the store..Maybe a clue of what it was? The windows all have this gross white stuff on them.

the Big lots sign your talking about this right?:);)

[Four4Rock]

d00dz, this thread started by asking about the (former) Hills/Ames facility at Main & Transit in Clarence, NY.  Welp, I worked for a while at the store when it was Hill's (#97, I think).  The building was originally a Grant's department store.  Subsequent to that it was a Naum's catalog-type store.  Then Hill's... then Ames.  The footprint is 80,000 square feet.

[Zayre88]

What's your guess on that unidentified store ?

[store215]

Originally posted by Zayre88
What's your guess on that unidentified store ?

Maybe it was a Phar-Mor  or some kind of grocery store? Where is this building located and about how big it it?

[Caldor1999]

Originally posted by Zayre88
What's your guess on that unidentified store ?

one word thats a Ames it was a former Zayer i think:)

[Jag67]

Looks like Ames. I think i can make out an ames label scar.

[Four4Rock]

Oh.  Wait a minute.  You were asking about the pad NEXT to (just to the south?) the former Grants/Naums/Hills/Ames.  OK.  Yeah, that was (I believe) a Park Edge Super Market... later Bells.  There was - as I recall a CVS Pharmacy tucked inbetween HIlls & the grocery store.  After CVS closed it was - for a while - Johnny's Old Tyme Pizza (which failed miserably).  Of course, you know that Brennan's has been there for a gazillion years.  Child World was just to the north - between Hills & Eastern Hills Mall's outer loop road.

You might also recall that the Clarence Mall Hills is the one at which the HVAC unit came crashing through the roof on a Sunday afternoon and landed squarely along the cash register lanes.  Also, Hill's used to put on fireworks displays from their stores on independence day.  Folks used to have to be stationed on the roofs of the store (and Child World & I think even Eastern Hills Mall) with fire extinguishers... just in case.

That plaza has always been underutilized.  Assuming Benderson still owns it, it seems like some additional outparcel usage would be in order, y'know?  What a waste of prime space.

[d_fife]

Originally posted by Zayre88
What's your guess on that unidentified store ?

that was the ames in Dover.

[Zayre88]

Originally posted by d_fife

Originally posted by Zayre88
What's your guess on that unidentified store ?

that was the ames in Dover.

Yes, it was an easy one !!   Notice the dark doors found on recent former Zayre stores.

[thedisneystore967]

:warning:i hate to spoil it for everybody, but that was an ames..... it says so on Retailers From Woolworth To Walmart....

[Caldor1999]

this store hear is a CALDOR:o now i was shcoked to find this out cause it dosent look a thing like a caldor