K-Mart

[bargansbythebagful]

Have any of you seen the Kmart in Burlington, VT? I took the ferry from NY to VT for a quick night trip and the Kmart had the old old logo with the red K and the blue mart it was definately an old school store I could not take my eyes off of it while driving by.  I wish I had a camera

[d_fife]

Originally posted by bargansbythebagful
Have any of you seen the Kmart in Burlington, VT? I took the ferry from NY to VT for a quick night trip and the Kmart had the old old logo with the red K and the blue mart it was definately an old school store I could not take my eyes off of it while driving by.  I wish I had a camera

I HAVE TWICE AND I HAVE PICTURES OF IT, but I photographed it before I used digital and can digitize it. also I went to a kmart in watertown Ct and it has the old school look. the watertown Ct manager told me the store is 36,000 square feet. I wonder if any other kmarts have the old lettering out there. I have been to 140 kmarts in my life and only 2 of them still have the old lettering.

[Zayre88]

Originally posted by d_fife

I wonder if any other kmarts have the old lettering out there. I have been to 140 kmarts in my life and only 2 of them still have the old lettering.

Unbelivable !!!:o  I've been to 14 Kmarts in my life...

[ameskmart1]

Kmart prototype

[Ameskid]

That look SUCKS! Gimme a K with "mart" inside it any day! Maybe it's a self-esteem thing, as the people in the 1st pic elect....

[Marc82]

Yuck. I like the Big K style logo better. Heck, even the old school Kmart with the K and the little mart was better that this crap.

[d_fife]

I digitized these pictuers and took them myself.


1. top - Kmart in Boston / Dorchester mass in south bay center and 128,000 sq.ft. and opened late 1993. It closed even thought it had kmarts clientelle. I guess the rent ws high. It closed in the dreaded 2003 round. my dad and I went there and he thinks that whoever owned the plaza wanted Kmart out, as Target replaced it in a year. I took this picture in 2003.

2. Kmart in Brighton mass that was a Caldor and replaced the 85,000 sq.ft. store in 1999 and got kicked out by harvard last summer after a 2 year battle. I took this picture in 2004.

3. bottom Kmart sign in brighton. I took this picture in 2004.

[d_fife]

I digitized these pictures and took them myself.

1. top - Kmart in Holyoke Mass that opened in 1977. I took this picture in 2003

2. below top  - K-mart in PAlmer mass (not far from Springfield and sturbridge) that opened in 1979. it was a small store and notice the old school garden center logo, I took this picture in 2004

3. bottom K-mart sign in palmer. I took this picture in 2004.

[d_fife]

I took these pictures myself and digitized them

all 4 pictures are of the vacant Kmart in WEst Springfield mass. I took these pictures in 2003. I heard it closed in early 1995. It was 84,000 sq.ft. It is now replcaed by aj wright and big lots. I noticed that the old kmart logo labelscar was barley visable.

[d_fife]

I took these pictures myself and digitized them.

1. to the left is what was the old Kmart in Springfield mass on boston road and it closed in 1995 after opening in like 1978. I took this picture in 2004

2. Top right one is the vacant one in westfield mass that closed in 2003 and was 68,000 sq.ft. and is now big lots. I took this picture in 2004

3. former kmart sign in westfield mass. I took this picture in 2004.

4. bottom  - Springfield mass one on liberty st that opened 25 yrs ago and 88,400 sq.ft. and has funny smell inside.

[d_fife]

all 5 pictures are in hooksett nh and the store opened in 1974 and is 94,500 sq.ft. I digitized these picutres.

1. the top left hand picutre is the sign of the plaza. I took this picture in 2000. I never photographed the old sign which was the old school kmart sign.

2. bottom left picture is the garden center. I took this picture in 2000.

3. top right picture is the Kmart in hooksett nh. my dad took this picture in 1993 and I credit him (Douglas Fife) for taking this picture. the logo got changed in 1997 when it became Big Kmart.

4. below top picture Kmart in hooksett nh and I took this picture in 2000.

5. bottom picture. Garden center sign of hte one in hooksett nh. I took this picture in 2000.

[d_fife]

these pictures were digitized

1. Top left hand picture is the Kmart in West lebanon nh off exit 20 and opened in 1976 and was expanded by 40,000 sq.ft. and remodeled in 1990 or 1991. It is now 106,000 sq.ft. I took this picture in 2003.

2. top right hand picture is the Kmart in west Lebanon nh. My dad took this picture in 1978 of my now late mother and my brother when he was 3. I credit my dad Douglas fife for this picture. I took this picture in 1996.

3. bottom - kmart sign in west lebanon nh and I took this picture in 1996.

3. below top picture is the Kmart in WEst Lebanon NH

[d_fife]

closing Kmart in North Stockton ca and it was there for 38 years

credited to http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061109/A_BIZ/611090324
by Joe Goldeen


people found the store messy.

[d_fife]

kmart in portsmouth nh

[d_fife]

Originally posted by d_fife
kmart in portsmouth nh

shopping cart in the portsmouth store with old lettering

[d_fife]

Originally posted by d_fife

Originally posted by d_fife
kmart in portsmouth nh

shopping cart in the portsmouth store with old lettering

portsmouth nh one garden center

[d_fife]

Originally posted by d_fife

Originally posted by d_fife

Originally posted by d_fife
kmart in portsmouth nh

shopping cart in the portsmouth store with old lettering

portsmouth nh one garden center

portsmouth nh one

[d_fife]

kmart in saugus mass (near boston) that is 84,180 sq.ft. and near the square one mall and opened in 1976.

[d_fife]

Originally posted by d_fife
kmart in saugus mass (near boston) that is 84,180 sq.ft. and near the square one mall and opened in 1976.

saugus sign

[XISMZERO]

Here's what I believed to have once been a K Foods in Cromwell, Connecticut. It's located right next door to the Kmart, which has the same 1970s building style. Interesting thing about this "Xpect Discounts" is that it never received a white paint job or had the pebble facade removed like neighboring Kmart did.

[XISMZERO]

Here's the Kmart and former subsidiary store next door. Not too clear on the history of K Foods but I imagine the corporation discontinued it's grocery chain sometime in the early 80s(?) This is one of the few stores left in Connecticut, located in Cromwell along Shunpike Road and is the second store to have a former K Foods next door (the other being Waterbury, CT).

This plaza is quite old, somewhat disheveled, and probably faces some neglect by it's owners. Nonetheless, it's packed with cars and benefits from easy visiblity right off CT-9. Reportedly, this plaza has been having problems with muggings in broad day light...

[XISMZERO]

Here's one of the plaza signages; again vintage and probably harkening from the early-mid 1970s apart from some of the individual signs updated.

[HoJofan206]

At least two of the former Evansville Indiana K-Mart locations at K-Mart affiliated grocery stores attached to them.  You could go from the department store to the grocery store from a turnstyle area near the front plate glass windows.  The grocery stores turned into local venue's when I was very young (late 70's or early 80's).  When I was a Sophomore in HS I worked at one of the grocery stores named, Wesselmans.  The store was clad in the former K Mart grocery markings all the way up until its closure in 2003.  I wish I had gone back to take pictures of it as it was a real 1970's gem.  From 2003 to 2006 the K-Mart center sat completely abandoned and took some serious vandalism hits because of its location off of the highway.
On the bright side, in late 2006 a Rural King opened in the former K-Mart breathing life back into the old 1960's shopping center.  When back home, I will try to get some modern day pictures of it.

[XISMZERO]

Here's another former K-Foods coupled K-Mart along Wolcott St. in Waterbury, CT. This street is saturated with retail history (since gone, but plenty vestige of old), and here's a small piece which still exists from decades gone.

[XISMZERO]

Here's the K-Mart on Wolcott St., Waterbury, CT. There's plenty of label scarring from when Little Caesar's was once here. That chain, which used to couple most K-Mart stores, has taken a financial dive along with K-Mart itself but still struggles.

[XISMZERO]

Here's the antique road sign of K-Mart. The frame is the same, the logo is up to date with the "Big" K-craze (you can also see the former Toys R Us sign in the back, since taken by Price Chopper advertisments).

[HoJofan206]

Does anyone know if K Mart is in another "shuttering mode"?
I passed by Princeton Indiana today and noticed the Going Out of Business signs hanging from the building. :huh:

[d_fife]

Originally posted by HoJofan206
Does anyone know if K Mart is in another "shuttering mode"?
I passed by Princeton Indiana today and noticed the Going Out of Business signs hanging from the building. :huh:

kmart is not. 3 months ago they announced the one in princeton is closing and it was closing on an individual basis due to economic reasons.

[mikey7290]

Originally posted by d_fife
here is the former k-mart in ogdensburg. it opened fall 1990, was 86,479 sq.ft. and closed early spring 1998 due to low sales, but it was not a part of a round of closings.

Just a slight correction on this.  Yes, there WAS a Kmart store here from 1990-1997, but this is NOT the same building.  The former Kmart store (along with three others next to it in the plaza) was demolished in 2004 or 2005 to make room for this Lowe's store.

[mikey7290]

Originally posted by d_fife
here is what I believe is where the former k-mart in watertown ny was. I heard that it was on this street and the store was 70,000 sq.ft. (another thing said 45,000 sq.ft.) until it moved on arsenal st. (I list the picture of it next()

The store you have shown here in Watertown NY is not the former Kmart.  This is now the Big M supermarket (formerly Acme and Super Duper.)  The former Kmart is at the very southern edge of the city on Route 11 and is back from the road.  After Kmart moved out, the building was bought by the local hospital and made into doctor's offices.  I will try to get some pics of the old Kmart on my next trip to Watertown.