Ames

[jmcnamara96]

Did some reseach thanks to the Union Leader its long so here it goes
October 21, 2005,
 
Marshall's opens store
PLYMOUTH -- Marshall's opened a new store here yesterday and throngs of shoppers packed into Hatch Plaza throughout the day to look over and purchase the discount merchandise. It was almost three years to the day Ames Department Store closed its doors in the same space and left the 28,000 square feet of retail space idle. The store is at 389 Tenney Mountain Highway, next to Hannaford and a corridor that has seen a recent construction

 March 12, 2004,Big Lots store coming to mall
BELMONT -- The nation's largest close-out retailer, Ohio-based Big Lots, will be taking up residence in the Belknap Mall this summer.
Peggy O'Malley, leasing manager for the Massachusetts-based Flatley Company, which owns the mall, said that Big Lots has signed a lease for 33,000 square feet of the 80,000 square feet space formerly occupied by Ames Department Store, which closed in 2002.

 October 18, 2003,  Ocean State Job Lot to open NH store
 New Hampshire's first Ocean State Job Lot store plans to open Nov. 6 in Peterborough Plaza, off Route 101, in space formerly occupied by Ames.
"We think this could be a nice area for us to do business," said Marc Perlman, president and CEO of Ocean State Jobbers Inc.
 November 1, 2002, Shaw's Supermarkets plans to buy control of 18 former Ames Department Stores in New England, including sites in Peterborough, Stratham, and Woodsville and convert them to 70,000-square-foot grocery stores. In some cases, they will replace existing Shaw's stores.in a filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, bankrupt Ames has accepted Shaw's $48.5 million offer for leasing rights

  August 15, 2002,. Ames closing: 1000 NH jobs lost
Yesterday's announcement that Ames Department Stores Inc. will close all its stores, including 19 in New Hampshire, has some of the 1,000 New Hampshire Ames employees wondering where they will turn for employment and local shoppers wondering where they will turn for discount retail shopping.
Scotty Aylward has worked at the Seabrook Ames for more than 17 years."It's upsetting. I've been here a long


 December 6, 2001,. Ames plans to close 54 stores. ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) -- Ames Department Stores Inc., which filed for federal bankruptcy protection in August, announced yesterday it will close another 54 stores around the country. The stores will begin liquidation on Dec. 30 and are expected to close in February or March of 2002. The decision is the third round of store closings in recent months by the Rocky  Hill based department store chain.The Ames store in Tilton is the only one in New Hampshire being closed
November 13, 1998, Ames Buys Hills In $330-Million Deal ROCKY HILL, Conn. (Bloomberg) Ames Department Stores Inc. has agreed to acquire Hills Stores Co. for about $330 million in cash and assumed debt, creating the fourth-largest discount retailer in the United States. Ames will pay $1.50 a share for each of Hills' 11.2 million shares outstanding. The offer is about 14 percent more than Hills' closing price of 1 5/16 Wednesday. Ames will also offer $550 per $1,000 principal amount for the $195 million in outstanding

July 17, 1997,
 Ames Department Stores, the retail chain that pulled out of Manchester in a bankruptcy reorganization move four years ago, will return to the Queen City soon, perhaps within weeks. City Building Commissioner Armand Gaudreault yesterday confirmed he's issued Ames a permit to occupy the former Rich's Department Store slot in the East Side Plaza on Hanover Street.

CONCORD - October 22, 1995 An Ames Department Stores security guard claims the company practiced racial discrimination when it refused to promote him to several job positions for which he believed he was highly qualified.
Audu J. Hamed, a retired Nigerian Army captain, alleged in a suit filed last week in U.S. District Court in Concord that he was bypassed for white candidates who were less qualified than he.who worked in Ames stores in Massachusetts and Manchester, Salem and Seabrook

May 18, 1995 ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) - Ames Department Stores Inc. said yesterday it lost $11 million in the first quarter despite its second consecutive increase in comparable-store sales.
The loss for the 13 weeks ended April 29 equaled 55 cents a share, and compared with a net loss of $15.1 million, or 75 cents a share, in the same period a year ago.
The nation's fifth-largest discount chain, with 305 stores in the Northeast and the District of Columbia


April 11, 1995DERRY - Ames Department Stores Inc. has been hit with a $37,500 fine resulting from an investigation into last month's chemical mishap at Hood Commons shopping center.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration levied the fine after citing the retail corporation with ''repeat violations'' of standards for educating and informing employees about the hazardous chemicals they work with.

March 4, 1995 DERRY - Officials from the state Department of Environmental Services are investigating Thursday's chemical mishap that sent eight people to area hospitals complaining of nausea and difficulty breathing.
Charles Knox, spokesman for DES, said investigators spent most of yesterday interviewing those involved in the incident at Hood Commons shopping center. He said they will attempt to determine ''how it came to pass that such He said they will attempt to determine ''how it came to pass that such chemicals were dumped
March 3, 1995 DERRY - Eight people were rushed to area hospitals yesterday when harmful fumes spread through several stores in Hood CommonsThey came from a toxic mixture created when an Ames department store employee poured six chemicals together in an attempt to dispose of them, according to public safety officials.The chemicals - apparently pulled from the store's shelves because they were no longer for sale - were common household products used to clear drains, kill insects

 April 23, 1993, City Concert Venue. Manchester promoter last night said efforts are under way to establish a concert venue at the former Ames store on Elm Street.Howie Howe said a financier with whom he is working has a meeting scheduled today with the plaza landlord, although it could be 90 days before a deal is done.Howe, who said he staged concerts at both the Empire Theatre and the former Decadence night club, envisions a series of concerts over the summer


October 31, 1992, Manchester will lose its last downtown department store when the Ames outlet at 589 Elm St. closes its doors in early 1993.
The Manchester store is one of 60 that will be closed nationwide as part of a bankruptcy reorganzation plan initiated after Ames Department Stores Inc. filed for Chapter 11 protection in April 1990.Sixty-six employees will be affected by the Manchester closing, which was attributed to ''low profitability.''


March 29, 1992,LONDONDERRY: Get ready, bargain shoppers: There's a new store coming to town and it's T.J. Maxx. The new bargain-hunters' department store will be in the Apple Tree Mall, former site of Zayre's, then Ames. The site has been vacant for almost two years.

October 5, 1991 ROCKY HILL, Conn. - Ames Department Stores Inc. said yesterday it will close 77 of its 448 stores early next year, including two stores in New Hampshire.Twenty Ames stores will remain in the Granite State after the Nashua and Plaistow stores are closed.
Stephen L. Pistner, Ames' chairman and chief executive officer, said, ''The closing of these stores will reduce our losses and improve operating cash flow.

December 29, 1989, Ames Department Stores Inc., still adjusting to its purchase of Zayre department stores, announced yesterday it will close 15 stores in February, including two more in New Hampshire.
To be closed on Saturday, Feb. 3, will be Ames Department stores in Plaistow and Somersworth. The company had announced on Christmas Eve that it would also close its Seabrook store.
The Plaistow store on Route 125, which employs 70, was opened in 1983. The Somersworth store on High Street employs 80
October 30, 1989 Eleven department stores in New Hampshire have gone from Z to A, as Ames Department Store changed the name of Zayre stores it acquired in a nationwide buyout last year.
The change means there are now 27 Ames department stores in the state and 632 Ames nationwide.
William Roberts, spokesman for Ames, said last week the average store employs between 70 and 100 workers, many of them part-time.
Besides the name and sign change,

[gu4ever]

Originally posted by jmcnamara96
Did some reseach thanks to the Union Leader its long so here it goes
October 21, 2005,
 
Marshall's opens store
PLYMOUTH -- Marshall's opened a new store here yesterday and throngs of shoppers packed into Hatch Plaza throughout the day to look over and purchase the discount merchandise. It was almost three years to the day Ames Department Store closed its doors in the same space and left the 28,000 square feet of retail space idle. The store is at 389 Tenney Mountain Highway, next to Hannaford and a corridor that has seen a recent construction

 March 12, 2004,Big Lots store coming to mall
BELMONT -- The nation's largest close-out retailer, Ohio-based Big Lots, will be taking up residence in the Belknap Mall this summer.
Peggy O'Malley, leasing manager for the Massachusetts-based Flatley Company, which owns the mall, said that Big Lots has signed a lease for 33,000 square feet of the 80,000 square feet space formerly occupied by Ames Department Store, which closed in 2002.

 October 18, 2003,  Ocean State Job Lot to open NH store
 New Hampshire's first Ocean State Job Lot store plans to open Nov. 6 in Peterborough Plaza, off Route 101, in space formerly occupied by Ames.
"We think this could be a nice area for us to do business," said Marc Perlman, president and CEO of Ocean State Jobbers Inc.
 November 1, 2002, Shaw's Supermarkets plans to buy control of 18 former Ames Department Stores in New England, including sites in Peterborough, Stratham, and Woodsville and convert them to 70,000-square-foot grocery stores. In some cases, they will replace existing Shaw's stores.in a filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, bankrupt Ames has accepted Shaw's $48.5 million offer for leasing rights

  August 15, 2002,. Ames closing: 1000 NH jobs lost
Yesterday's announcement that Ames Department Stores Inc. will close all its stores, including 19 in New Hampshire, has some of the 1,000 New Hampshire Ames employees wondering where they will turn for employment and local shoppers wondering where they will turn for discount retail shopping.
Scotty Aylward has worked at the Seabrook Ames for more than 17 years."It's upsetting. I've been here a long


 December 6, 2001,. Ames plans to close 54 stores. ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) -- Ames Department Stores Inc., which filed for federal bankruptcy protection in August, announced yesterday it will close another 54 stores around the country. The stores will begin liquidation on Dec. 30 and are expected to close in February or March of 2002. The decision is the third round of store closings in recent months by the Rocky  Hill based department store chain.The Ames store in Tilton is the only one in New Hampshire being closed
November 13, 1998, Ames Buys Hills In $330-Million Deal ROCKY HILL, Conn. (Bloomberg) Ames Department Stores Inc. has agreed to acquire Hills Stores Co. for about $330 million in cash and assumed debt, creating the fourth-largest discount retailer in the United States. Ames will pay $1.50 a share for each of Hills' 11.2 million shares outstanding. The offer is about 14 percent more than Hills' closing price of 1 5/16 Wednesday. Ames will also offer $550 per $1,000 principal amount for the $195 million in outstanding

July 17, 1997,
 Ames Department Stores, the retail chain that pulled out of Manchester in a bankruptcy reorganization move four years ago, will return to the Queen City soon, perhaps within weeks. City Building Commissioner Armand Gaudreault yesterday confirmed he's issued Ames a permit to occupy the former Rich's Department Store slot in the East Side Plaza on Hanover Street.

CONCORD - October 22, 1995 An Ames Department Stores security guard claims the company practiced racial discrimination when it refused to promote him to several job positions for which he believed he was highly qualified.
Audu J. Hamed, a retired Nigerian Army captain, alleged in a suit filed last week in U.S. District Court in Concord that he was bypassed for white candidates who were less qualified than he.who worked in Ames stores in Massachusetts and Manchester, Salem and Seabrook

May 18, 1995 ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) - Ames Department Stores Inc. said yesterday it lost $11 million in the first quarter despite its second consecutive increase in comparable-store sales.
The loss for the 13 weeks ended April 29 equaled 55 cents a share, and compared with a net loss of $15.1 million, or 75 cents a share, in the same period a year ago.
The nation's fifth-largest discount chain, with 305 stores in the Northeast and the District of Columbia


April 11, 1995DERRY - Ames Department Stores Inc. has been hit with a $37,500 fine resulting from an investigation into last month's chemical mishap at Hood Commons shopping center.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration levied the fine after citing the retail corporation with ''repeat violations'' of standards for educating and informing employees about the hazardous chemicals they work with.

March 4, 1995 DERRY - Officials from the state Department of Environmental Services are investigating Thursday's chemical mishap that sent eight people to area hospitals complaining of nausea and difficulty breathing.
Charles Knox, spokesman for DES, said investigators spent most of yesterday interviewing those involved in the incident at Hood Commons shopping center. He said they will attempt to determine ''how it came to pass that such He said they will attempt to determine ''how it came to pass that such chemicals were dumped
March 3, 1995 DERRY - Eight people were rushed to area hospitals yesterday when harmful fumes spread through several stores in Hood CommonsThey came from a toxic mixture created when an Ames department store employee poured six chemicals together in an attempt to dispose of them, according to public safety officials.The chemicals - apparently pulled from the store's shelves because they were no longer for sale - were common household products used to clear drains, kill insects

 April 23, 1993, City Concert Venue. Manchester promoter last night said efforts are under way to establish a concert venue at the former Ames store on Elm Street.Howie Howe said a financier with whom he is working has a meeting scheduled today with the plaza landlord, although it could be 90 days before a deal is done.Howe, who said he staged concerts at both the Empire Theatre and the former Decadence night club, envisions a series of concerts over the summer


October 31, 1992, Manchester will lose its last downtown department store when the Ames outlet at 589 Elm St. closes its doors in early 1993.
The Manchester store is one of 60 that will be closed nationwide as part of a bankruptcy reorganzation plan initiated after Ames Department Stores Inc. filed for Chapter 11 protection in April 1990.Sixty-six employees will be affected by the Manchester closing, which was attributed to ''low profitability.''


March 29, 1992,LONDONDERRY: Get ready, bargain shoppers: There's a new store coming to town and it's T.J. Maxx. The new bargain-hunters' department store will be in the Apple Tree Mall, former site of Zayre's, then Ames. The site has been vacant for almost two years.

October 5, 1991 ROCKY HILL, Conn. - Ames Department Stores Inc. said yesterday it will close 77 of its 448 stores early next year, including two stores in New Hampshire.Twenty Ames stores will remain in the Granite State after the Nashua and Plaistow stores are closed.
Stephen L. Pistner, Ames' chairman and chief executive officer, said, ''The closing of these stores will reduce our losses and improve operating cash flow.

December 29, 1989, Ames Department Stores Inc., still adjusting to its purchase of Zayre department stores, announced yesterday it will close 15 stores in February, including two more in New Hampshire.
To be closed on Saturday, Feb. 3, will be Ames Department stores in Plaistow and Somersworth. The company had announced on Christmas Eve that it would also close its Seabrook store.
The Plaistow store on Route 125, which employs 70, was opened in 1983. The Somersworth store on High Street employs 80
October 30, 1989 Eleven department stores in New Hampshire have gone from Z to A, as Ames Department Store changed the name of Zayre stores it acquired in a nationwide buyout last year.
The change means there are now 27 Ames department stores in the state and 632 Ames nationwide.
William Roberts, spokesman for Ames, said last week the average store employs between 70 and 100 workers, many of them part-time.
Besides the name and sign change,
 

That's some fantastic research!! I remember when the Zayre then Ames store closed in Manchester back in 1993, I've been on the hunt for a picture of that store since the plaza was torn down for the new Verizon Center.

[d_fife]

Originally posted by jmcnamara96
Did some reseach thanks to the Union Leader its long so here it goes
October 21, 2005,
 
Marshall's opens store
PLYMOUTH -- Marshall's opened a new store here yesterday and throngs of shoppers packed into Hatch Plaza throughout the day to look over and purchase the discount merchandise. It was almost three years to the day Ames Department Store closed its doors in the same space and left the 28,000 square feet of retail space idle. The store is at 389 Tenney Mountain Highway, next to Hannaford and a corridor that has seen a recent construction

 March 12, 2004,Big Lots store coming to mall
BELMONT -- The nation's largest close-out retailer, Ohio-based Big Lots, will be taking up residence in the Belknap Mall this summer.
Peggy O'Malley, leasing manager for the Massachusetts-based Flatley Company, which owns the mall, said that Big Lots has signed a lease for 33,000 square feet of the 80,000 square feet space formerly occupied by Ames Department Store, which closed in 2002.

 October 18, 2003,  Ocean State Job Lot to open NH store
 New Hampshire's first Ocean State Job Lot store plans to open Nov. 6 in Peterborough Plaza, off Route 101, in space formerly occupied by Ames.
"We think this could be a nice area for us to do business," said Marc Perlman, president and CEO of Ocean State Jobbers Inc.
 November 1, 2002, Shaw's Supermarkets plans to buy control of 18 former Ames Department Stores in New England, including sites in Peterborough, Stratham, and Woodsville and convert them to 70,000-square-foot grocery stores. In some cases, they will replace existing Shaw's stores.in a filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, bankrupt Ames has accepted Shaw's $48.5 million offer for leasing rights

  August 15, 2002,. Ames closing: 1000 NH jobs lost
Yesterday's announcement that Ames Department Stores Inc. will close all its stores, including 19 in New Hampshire, has some of the 1,000 New Hampshire Ames employees wondering where they will turn for employment and local shoppers wondering where they will turn for discount retail shopping.
Scotty Aylward has worked at the Seabrook Ames for more than 17 years."It's upsetting. I've been here a long


 December 6, 2001,. Ames plans to close 54 stores. ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) -- Ames Department Stores Inc., which filed for federal bankruptcy protection in August, announced yesterday it will close another 54 stores around the country. The stores will begin liquidation on Dec. 30 and are expected to close in February or March of 2002. The decision is the third round of store closings in recent months by the Rocky  Hill based department store chain.The Ames store in Tilton is the only one in New Hampshire being closed
November 13, 1998, Ames Buys Hills In $330-Million Deal ROCKY HILL, Conn. (Bloomberg) Ames Department Stores Inc. has agreed to acquire Hills Stores Co. for about $330 million in cash and assumed debt, creating the fourth-largest discount retailer in the United States. Ames will pay $1.50 a share for each of Hills' 11.2 million shares outstanding. The offer is about 14 percent more than Hills' closing price of 1 5/16 Wednesday. Ames will also offer $550 per $1,000 principal amount for the $195 million in outstanding

July 17, 1997,
 Ames Department Stores, the retail chain that pulled out of Manchester in a bankruptcy reorganization move four years ago, will return to the Queen City soon, perhaps within weeks. City Building Commissioner Armand Gaudreault yesterday confirmed he's issued Ames a permit to occupy the former Rich's Department Store slot in the East Side Plaza on Hanover Street.

CONCORD - October 22, 1995 An Ames Department Stores security guard claims the company practiced racial discrimination when it refused to promote him to several job positions for which he believed he was highly qualified.
Audu J. Hamed, a retired Nigerian Army captain, alleged in a suit filed last week in U.S. District Court in Concord that he was bypassed for white candidates who were less qualified than he.who worked in Ames stores in Massachusetts and Manchester, Salem and Seabrook

May 18, 1995 ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) - Ames Department Stores Inc. said yesterday it lost $11 million in the first quarter despite its second consecutive increase in comparable-store sales.
The loss for the 13 weeks ended April 29 equaled 55 cents a share, and compared with a net loss of $15.1 million, or 75 cents a share, in the same period a year ago.
The nation's fifth-largest discount chain, with 305 stores in the Northeast and the District of Columbia


April 11, 1995DERRY - Ames Department Stores Inc. has been hit with a $37,500 fine resulting from an investigation into last month's chemical mishap at Hood Commons shopping center.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration levied the fine after citing the retail corporation with ''repeat violations'' of standards for educating and informing employees about the hazardous chemicals they work with.

March 4, 1995 DERRY - Officials from the state Department of Environmental Services are investigating Thursday's chemical mishap that sent eight people to area hospitals complaining of nausea and difficulty breathing.
Charles Knox, spokesman for DES, said investigators spent most of yesterday interviewing those involved in the incident at Hood Commons shopping center. He said they will attempt to determine ''how it came to pass that such He said they will attempt to determine ''how it came to pass that such chemicals were dumped
March 3, 1995 DERRY - Eight people were rushed to area hospitals yesterday when harmful fumes spread through several stores in Hood CommonsThey came from a toxic mixture created when an Ames department store employee poured six chemicals together in an attempt to dispose of them, according to public safety officials.The chemicals - apparently pulled from the store's shelves because they were no longer for sale - were common household products used to clear drains, kill insects

 April 23, 1993, City Concert Venue. Manchester promoter last night said efforts are under way to establish a concert venue at the former Ames store on Elm Street.Howie Howe said a financier with whom he is working has a meeting scheduled today with the plaza landlord, although it could be 90 days before a deal is done.Howe, who said he staged concerts at both the Empire Theatre and the former Decadence night club, envisions a series of concerts over the summer


October 31, 1992, Manchester will lose its last downtown department store when the Ames outlet at 589 Elm St. closes its doors in early 1993.
The Manchester store is one of 60 that will be closed nationwide as part of a bankruptcy reorganzation plan initiated after Ames Department Stores Inc. filed for Chapter 11 protection in April 1990.Sixty-six employees will be affected by the Manchester closing, which was attributed to ''low profitability.''


March 29, 1992,LONDONDERRY: Get ready, bargain shoppers: There's a new store coming to town and it's T.J. Maxx. The new bargain-hunters' department store will be in the Apple Tree Mall, former site of Zayre's, then Ames. The site has been vacant for almost two years.

October 5, 1991 ROCKY HILL, Conn. - Ames Department Stores Inc. said yesterday it will close 77 of its 448 stores early next year, including two stores in New Hampshire.Twenty Ames stores will remain in the Granite State after the Nashua and Plaistow stores are closed.
Stephen L. Pistner, Ames' chairman and chief executive officer, said, ''The closing of these stores will reduce our losses and improve operating cash flow.

December 29, 1989, Ames Department Stores Inc., still adjusting to its purchase of Zayre department stores, announced yesterday it will close 15 stores in February, including two more in New Hampshire.
To be closed on Saturday, Feb. 3, will be Ames Department stores in Plaistow and Somersworth. The company had announced on Christmas Eve that it would also close its Seabrook store.
The Plaistow store on Route 125, which employs 70, was opened in 1983. The Somersworth store on High Street employs 80
October 30, 1989 Eleven department stores in New Hampshire have gone from Z to A, as Ames Department Store changed the name of Zayre stores it acquired in a nationwide buyout last year.
The change means there are now 27 Ames department stores in the state and 632 Ames nationwide.
William Roberts, spokesman for Ames, said last week the average store employs between 70 and 100 workers, many of them part-time.
Besides the name and sign change,
 

I have been to these stores before and I worked at this Ames. this is my local area you are discussing

[jmcnamara96]

Oh werew all from The Granite State NH

[jmcnamara96]

so im talking to my buddys friend who knew i was in to retail and says AMYS in lowell is still vacant i said ames you mean he goes oh thats how you pronounce it

[jmcnamara96]

I was searching on google and this came up

What is the AmesFanClub?

Answer
Amesfanclub.com calls itself: The prime source for Ames Department Store information. Photo / Picture galleries, store locator, message board, media, email and more!

[TRJ22487]

That's some fantastic research!! I remember when the Zayre then Ames store closed in Manchester back in 1993, I've been on the hunt for a picture of that store since the plaza was torn down for the new Verizon Center.

I also remember that Ames verrrry vaguely. I would love to see a TON of old pictures of Manch-Vegas during the early 90's. The Kmart in Manchester during that time was the only vintage K-Mart I can vividly see in my memory (low ceilings even as a little kid!), ohh going to Chuck E' Cheese, Kmart, Toys R Us and the Mall of NH was like THE TRIP back then. I remember the excitment as you started to enter the outskirts of the city and things started looking real "ghetto". I took a trip to Manchester for the first time in several years back in 2005 and we all loved visiting the Toys R Us again for the first time as a kid (at the time we were all 18), it was fully unremodeled with a decrepit looking closed Kids R' Us next to it. The way the store looked at that time in 2005, I thought it had a good chance of closing. I went again last month and (sadly?) the entire Toys R Us has been remodeled with new logos and a Babies R Us instead. The store looked similar to the one that currently still exists in Nashua next to the Fox Run mall.

CONCORD - October 22, 1995 An Ames Department Stores security guard claims the company practiced racial discrimination when it refused to promote him to several job positions for which he believed he was highly qualified.
Audu J. Hamed, a retired Nigerian Army captain, alleged in a suit filed last week in U.S. District Court in Concord that he was bypassed for white candidates who were less qualified than he.who worked in Ames stores in Massachusetts and Manchester, Salem and Seabrook

I feel like I never saw a non-white employee at Ames, this is true, but the area I live in was dominantly white up to the late 90's/early 2000's too...

October 18, 2003,  Ocean State Job Lot to open NH store
New Hampshire's first Ocean State Job Lot store plans to open Nov. 6 in Peterborough Plaza, off Route 101, in space formerly occupied by Ames.
"We think this could be a nice area for us to do business," said Marc Perlman, president and CEO of Ocean State Jobbers Inc.
November 1, 2002, Shaw's Supermarkets plans to buy control of 18 former Ames Department Stores in New England, including sites in Peterborough, Stratham, and Woodsville and convert them to 70,000-square-foot grocery stores. In some cases, they will replace existing Shaw's stores.in a filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, bankrupt Ames has accepted Shaw's $48.5 million offer for leasing rights

This is the Ames I got my red shopping cart from. It feels like it's been an OSJL for ages now, and it's really only been slightly over six years

[jmcnamara96]

That's some fantastic research!! I remember when the Zayre then Ames store closed in Manchester back in 1993, I've been on the hunt for a picture of that store since the plaza was torn down for the new Verizon Center.

I also remember that Ames verrrry vaguely. The Kmart in Manchester during that time was better though, ohh going to Chuck E' Cheese, Kmart, Toys R Us and the Mall of NH was like THE TRIP back then

CONCORD - October 22, 1995 An Ames Department Stores security guard claims the company practiced racial discrimination when it refused to promote him to several job positions for which he believed he was highly qualified.
Audu J. Hamed, a retired Nigerian Army captain, alleged in a suit filed last week in U.S. District Court in Concord that he was bypassed for white candidates who were less qualified than he.who worked in Ames stores in Massachusetts and Manchester, Salem and Seabrook

I feel like I never saw a non-white employee at Ames, this is true, but the area I live in was dominantly white up to the late 90's/early 2000's too...

October 18, 2003,  Ocean State Job Lot to open NH store
New Hampshire's first Ocean State Job Lot store plans to open Nov. 6 in Peterborough Plaza, off Route 101, in space formerly occupied by Ames.
"We think this could be a nice area for us to do business," said Marc Perlman, president and CEO of Ocean State Jobbers Inc.
November 1, 2002, Shaw's Supermarkets plans to buy control of 18 former Ames Department Stores in New England, including sites in Peterborough, Stratham, and Woodsville and convert them to 70,000-square-foot grocery stores. In some cases, they will replace existing Shaw's stores.in a filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, bankrupt Ames has accepted Shaw's $48.5 million offer for leasing rights

This is the Ames I got my red shopping cart from. It feels like it's been an OSJL for ages now, and it's really only been slightly over six years

That's some fantastic research!! I remember when the Zayre then Ames store closed in Manchester back in 1993, I've been on the hunt for a picture of that store since the plaza was torn down for the new Verizon Center.
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I also remember that Ames verrrry vaguely. The Kmart in Manchester during that time was better though, ohh going to Chuck E' Cheese, Kmart, Toys R Us and the Mall of NH was like THE TRIP back then

CONCORD - October 22, 1995 An Ames Department Stores security guard claims the company practiced racial discrimination when it refused to promote him to several job positions for which he believed he was highly qualified.
Audu J. Hamed, a retired Nigerian Army captain, alleged in a suit filed last week in U.S. District Court in Concord that he was bypassed for white candidates who were less qualified than he.who worked in Ames stores in Massachusetts and Manchester, Salem and Seabrook

I feel like I never saw a non-white employee at Ames, this is true, but the area I live in was dominantly white up to the late 90's/early 2000's too...

October 18, 2003,  Ocean State Job Lot to open NH store
New Hampshire's first Ocean State Job Lot store plans to open Nov. 6 in Peterborough Plaza, off Route 101, in space formerly occupied by Ames.
"We think this could be a nice area for us to do business," said Marc Perlman, president and CEO of Ocean State Jobbers Inc.
November 1, 2002, Shaw's Supermarkets plans to buy control of 18 former Ames Department Stores in New England, including sites in Peterborough, Stratham, and Woodsville and convert them to 70,000-square-foot grocery stores. In some cases, they will replace existing Shaw's stores.in a filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, bankrupt Ames has accepted Shaw's $48.5 million offer for leasing rights

This is the Ames I got my red shopping cart from. It feels like it's been an OSJL for ages now, and it's really only been slightly over six years
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Awww the Kmart in Manchester so outdated and awful we went to lounderry one more but those rides there then to Mall of NH were some good times

[TRJ22487]

Getting our family NES at that Manchester K-Mart....one of the very earliest memories I have...was either 1990 or 1991. At this time many Kmart's closer to where I lived already had the updated logo and were brighter, larger stores. This one seemed bizarre, compact, and orange lighting.
The thing that confuses me though is that article says Manchester lost its last downtown dept store with the Early 1993 Ames closing, did the Kmart close before that? I thought that location was around longer than 1992 but maybe not....heck probably not. Where does time go?

[gu4ever]

Getting our family NES at that Manchester K-Mart....one of the very earliest memories I have...was either 1990 or 1991. At this time many Kmart's closer to where I lived already had the updated logo and were brighter, larger stores. This one seemed bizarre, compact, and orange lighting.
The thing that confuses me though is that article says Manchester lost its last downtown dept store with the Early 1993 Ames closing, did the Kmart close before that? I thought that location was around longer than 1992 but maybe not....heck probably not. Where does time go?

The article is correct Ames department store that closed in downtown Manchester on Elm Street was originally a Zayre. This entire complex is now gone replaced by the Verizon center. The only Kmart in Manchester that I know of was located on South Willow Street across from the Mall of New Hampshire now a Burlington Coat Factory, it's about a 10 minute drive from downtown shopping district.

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Getting our family NES at that Manchester K-Mart....one of the very earliest memories I have...was either 1990 or 1991. At this time many Kmart's closer to where I lived already had the updated logo and were brighter, larger stores. This one seemed bizarre, compact, and orange lighting.
The thing that confuses me though is that article says Manchester lost its last downtown dept store with the Early 1993 Ames closing, did the Kmart close before that? I thought that location was around longer than 1992 but maybe not....heck probably not. Where does time go?

The article is correct Ames department store that closed in downtown Manchester on Elm Street was originally a Zayre. This entire complex is now gone replaced by the Verizon center. The only Kmart in Manchester that I know of was located on South Willow Street across from the Mall of New Hampshire now a Burlington Coat Factory, it's about a 10 minute drive from downtown shopping district.

Ohh they don't consider that downtown...haha ok. Yes I'm familiar with usually entering Manchester past Jordan Marsh and onto S. Willow street.