Jamesway

[videogamer75]

Here is the vacant Jamesway in Williamstown, NJ. It's actually quite clean looking for being vacant 12 years!

[Ameskid]

Originally posted by DefunctStoreKing
Jamesway was a great place to shop, what things did Jamesway sell?

Jamesway was a discount department store, much like Ames.

[videogamer75]

Originally posted by MBZ321
Jamesway really did not go out of business because of Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart had very few stores, (if any) in this part of the country (meaning east coast area states) around 1995. One of the first Wal-Mart stores in the Philadelphia area wasn't built until 1997

Well, the Wal-Mart in Turnersville, NJ opened in 1991. It was the first WM in the state. They had a really aggressive opening sale too.

[mikey7290]

Originally posted by videogamer75
Here is the vacant Jamesway in Williamstown, NJ. It's actually quite clean looking for being vacant 12 years!

The Massena NY Jamesway, which is now a P&C (shown above) looked just like this store here before the renovations were started.

[shakethis1234]

jamesway was more like kmart walmart i live down the road from one in fulton ny 80,000 sf they had a good size garden center toy dept they even sold birds which i dont understand y that store was one of the first ones to go because that store was the only discount/dept store in the city the former one in oswego now P&C did a full remodel then closed in the same year when walmart announce they were comming they closed P&C gutted the store kept frame up

[Caldor1999]

Originally posted by videogamer75
Here is the vacant Jamesway in Williamstown, NJ. It's actually quite clean looking for being vacant 12 years!

were did you find that !!! i sould really go cheack it out sometime i wonder if they left anything behind inside

[Caldor1999]

heres a pic i found on flickr of the inside of a jamesway back in 1988 it gives you a clear idea of what the store was like inside

[videogamer75]

Originally posted by Caldor1999

Originally posted by videogamer75
Here is the vacant Jamesway in Williamstown, NJ. It's actually quite clean looking for being vacant 12 years!

were did you find that !!! i sould really go cheack it out sometime i wonder if they left anything behind inside

I took it on August 2, 2008. It's from my Flickr account, Nintendo85. There's also an abandoned Acme in the same plaza, and I am also curious as to what's inside.....

It's in a distressed old plaza that doesn't have any anchor stores anymore, just small stores such as a fashion bug, a pizza place and a cafe, and a CVS Pharmacy in the parking lot. All the retail stores have moved up to Turnersville, NJ about 5-10 minutes up the road.

[videogamer75]

Originally posted by d_fife
here is what was jamesway in bath ny

Is that red building in the background a classic KFC???? It sure looks like one!

[C. Fontaine]

They sure are!

[Caldor1999]

anyone have any clue were this jamesway was i wanna say it became a ames because of the style of the store i found the picture from

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JameswayStores

[videogamer75]

I'm pretty sure that's somewhere in northeast Pennsylvania, it is actually from someone's blog, I can't seem to find it right now.

[Mobil]

Originally posted by Caldor1999
anyone have any clue were this jamesway was i wanna say it became a ames because of the style of the store i found the picture from

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JameswayStores

That Jamesway is the same one in the picture with the labelscar that is now a Big Lots. Part of it is also now a Family Dollar. The store is in Dunmore, PA (near Scranton) in a former Grant City and later King's. It can be found on the blog "Wyoming Valley Photos".

[Mobil]

Originally posted by storehistoryguy
A former Jamesway in Cornwells Heights, Pa.. Prior to being a Jamesway it was a Woolco. To bad its a Home Depot today. It was completly gutted.


http://www.tomasher.net/deadretail.html

That Jamesway must have closed in 1991. It was a Price Club store for a brief time, a chain that was sold to Costco in 1992 and closed several stores then. There was a Jamesway in Claymont, Delaware, which was also a Woolco and is now a Home Depot. The Jamesway closed in 1995, however, and then became a Woolworth Outlet for a short time.

[videogamer75]

This is the Williamstown, NJ Jamesway again. I did not notice this last time, but some company called Castleford Tailors Ltd. is now occupying part of this building. Notice the white cement covering up some of the old Jamesway doors.

[NJxxJon]

Originally posted by videogamer75
This is the Williamstown, NJ Jamesway again. I did not notice this last time, but some company called Castleford Tailors Ltd. is now occupying part of this building. Notice the white cement covering up some of the old Jamesway doors.

Those Lights look like they were re-done as well.....ha

[videogamer75]

And here is what used to be Jamesway in hammonton NJ. it is now shop rite and it opened as jamesway in the early 1970s.

[Mobil]

When did they use this logo? And does anyone know if the variations of their usual logo were from different times? There was the one with the J in the orange and blue box, the one with the blue letters underlined, and the white/turquoise logo from their carts.

[powersbt]

Originally posted by Mobil
When did they use this logo? And does anyone know if the variations of their usual logo were from different times? There was the one with the J in the orange and blue box, the one with the blue letters underlined, and the white/turquoise logo from their carts.

That logo is older than the one with the J in the Box. Oneonta NY's Jamesway had this Original logo all the way to it's GOB.

[Caldor1999]

Originally posted by powersbt

Originally posted by Mobil
When did they use this logo? And does anyone know if the variations of their usual logo were from different times? There was the one with the J in the orange and blue box, the one with the blue letters underlined, and the white/turquoise logo from their carts.

That logo is older than the one with the J in the Box. Oneonta NY's Jamesway had this Original logo all the way to it's GOB.

after it closed the logo would still light up at night i remember seeing this back in 1998

[powersbt]

Originally posted by Caldor1999

Originally posted by powersbt

Originally posted by Mobil
When did they use this logo? And does anyone know if the variations of their usual logo were from different times? There was the one with the J in the orange and blue box, the one with the blue letters underlined, and the white/turquoise logo from their carts.

That logo is older than the one with the J in the Box. Oneonta NY's Jamesway had this Original logo all the way to it's GOB.

after it closed the logo would still light up at night i remember seeing this back in 1998

Yes, I almost think it did too.

[Caldor1999]

Originally posted by powersbt

Originally posted by Caldor1999

Originally posted by powersbt

Originally posted by Mobil
When did they use this logo? And does anyone know if the variations of their usual logo were from different times? There was the one with the J in the orange and blue box, the one with the blue letters underlined, and the white/turquoise logo from their carts.

That logo is older than the one with the J in the Box. Oneonta NY's Jamesway had this Original logo all the way to it's GOB.

after it closed the logo would still light up at night i remember seeing this back in 1998

Yes, I almost think it did too.

come to think of it they left alot of the shelving behind and they left most of the lights on  and the lot was over grown with plants too bad its gone now

[Caldor1999]

heres the carmel NY jamesway i thought idd never see a picture of it ever again this was probley takening back in 1996 or 1997  thiss is how i found out about jamesway

[Caldor1999]

Originally posted by Caldor1999
heres the carmel NY jamesway i thought idd never see a picture of it ever again this was probley takening back in 1996 or 1997  thiss is how i found out about jamesway

heres what it became this pic is from 2004

[Mobil]

Was this logo from the 60's?

[Mobil]

Which logo came first?
This:

[Mobil]

Or this?

[powersbt]

Your pictures are in the correct order from oldest to newest Logos.

[Caldor1999]

Originally posted by Mobil
Which logo came first?
This:

this logo was the last one they used before the chain

the carmel ny one had that same logo i still cant believe i found a picture of it

[NJxxJon]

Originally posted by Mobil
Or this?

I still want to see this one in person. Saw that on another website and its in NJ apparently