Ames and other building style

[Zayre88]

Do you guys ever noticed Ames had its own style on several buildings ?  I'm pretty sure this was an original style Ames used back when they built new stores years ago.  

Maybe it's a style from another chain Ames acquired but i think it's the style Ames created for it's own stores.

Discuss !

[Zayre88]

Here's what i'm talking about.  Although some stores have differences, the common design is clear.  

The sets of three windows, the two entrances at each side, the one side with a column, the lights on the brick wall...  Some older stores seem to have a top covered with wood shingles, other have corrugated cladding.

[Caldor1999]

Originally posted by Zayre88
Do you guys ever noticed Ames had its own style on several buildings ?  I'm pretty sure this was an original style Ames used back when they built new stores years ago.  

Maybe it's a style from another chain Ames acquired but i think it's the style Ames created for it's own stores.

Discuss !

lol thats a cool dizine u did Zayer can u make one of Caldor and Bradlees

[Caldor1999]

Originally posted by 76BraldorZayKamesfanBBTB
This weird one from the Dayville store LOL probalbly a former Kmart

look like Kmart did close 110 store in 1994 nmakeing it easyer for Ames to snach up so locations

[Zayre88]

Originally posted by 76BraldorZayKamesfanBBTB
This weird one from the Dayville store LOL probalbly a former Kmart

I'm pretty sure it's not a former Kmart.  Usually they had one of those two styles and were new buildings so they had the Kmart common style all around.  That Ames looks old, maybe a former King's or else... :tumble:

[Zayre88]

Originally posted by Caldor1999
look like Kmart did close 110 store in 1994 nmakeing it easyer for Ames to snach up so locations

Here's an Ames former Kmart !

[Caldor1999]

Ames hads moved into many former locations of stores from Kings Zayer Muphry Mart Hills Clover Jamesway Caldor Bradlees and even Kmart

[PRoy]

I'm not sure but I beleive the Dayville Store was always an Ames. If I recall correctly, although the older I get the harder that is to do, the Sturbridge store, whenit was first built was of the same design. The whole front of the plaza was remodled when Shaw's expanded their store after they bought out Iandoli's.

[Zayre88]

Here is a style that i noticed when i compared these pictures.  Even though all the stores are not the same, the entrances are very similar.  The stores all have two sets of doors and these narrow but tall windows wich are not found everywhere else...  

It has to be a feature of a former chain store...

[d_fife]

Originally posted by 76BraldorZayKamesfanBBTB
This weird one from the Dayville store LOL probalbly a former Kmart

this was probably king's. probably nto a k-mart.

wHen I worked at the ames in plymouth nh (The store was Giant department store), one of the mangers said a lot of ames where not built from the ground up. I noticed that too,

[amesman]

Originally posted by 76BraldorZayKamesfanBBTB
This weird one from the Dayville store LOL probalbly a former Kmart

That's either an old King's or a Barker's(which in some cases King's took over).