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- 15 Jul 2011 02:02
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: JCPenney mall locations
- Replies: 16
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Re: JCPenney mall locations
JCPenney's mall stores in Michigan: * Courtland Center, Flint: Started out as central anchor, converted from Federal's/Robert Hall Village. This one moved to the west anchor (originally The Fair, later Mervyns) in 2008. Before the move, JCPenney had TWO other storefronts in the mall: a home store in...
- 22 May 2011 01:35
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: McDonald's Express
- Replies: 14
- Views: 17294
McDonald's Express
Are there any "McDonald's Express" locations still around? How limited were their menus? I remember four in the Flint area. Strangely, three of them were extremely close to existing McDonald's: * One was in Clio. There had been a traditional McDonald's on the SE side of the exit since mayb...
- 22 May 2011 01:17
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: 10 Most Unique McDonald's
- Replies: 15
- Views: 19653
Re: 10 Most Unique McDonald's
We actually have a lot of oddball McDonald's in Michigan: There's a 2 story McDonald's in East Lansing. From what I can tell, the dining room is on the upper level, and the kitchen on the lower one. Also, it has a green mansard to indicate its proximity to Michigan State University. Until 1997, Mack...
- 26 Apr 2011 17:26
- Forum: History: Shopping Centers
- Topic: Regional Shopping Center in Mt. Clemens
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6347
Regional Shopping Center in Mt. Clemens
Any Detroiters here familiar with the Regional shopping center on Gratiot in Mt. Clemens (15 Mile @ Gratiot)? From what I can tell, the south end was an open-air mall that had JCPenney and Montgomery Ward at one point.
- 21 Nov 2010 18:18
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Baskin Robbins signs
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12666
Re: Baskin Robbins signs
The one in Bay City, MI still had the first-generation sign until a few years ago; only the post is still there. The building still hasn't been updated with the 2007 logo: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=bay+city+mi&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=30.8...
- 28 Jul 2010 22:31
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Former Arby's locations
- Replies: 18
- Views: 20595
Re: Former Arby's locations
Arby's has been kind of in flux lately. It seems like every time one opens up, another one closes. They closed the one here in Oscoda, MI on Halloween 2007, almost exactly 20 years after it opened. It's now a coffee shop. Strangely, our Arby's used a building style I've seen nowhere else: Here's a p...
- 28 Jul 2010 22:28
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Woolco
- Replies: 43
- Views: 45605
Re: Woolco
I'm surprised that there apparently weren't any Woolcos in the Detroit area as far as I can tell. Were they that afraid to go fight Kmart in its home base? Or have I just overlooked some?
- 15 Jan 2010 11:34
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: H. Salt, Esq.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14625
Re: H. Salt, Esq.
^Long John Silver's seems to have come out of the 1970s and 1980s pretty much unscathed, actually. The 1990s, on the other hand...
- 14 Jan 2010 22:07
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: H. Salt, Esq.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14625
Re: H. Salt, Esq.
My fingers got ahead of my mind. I meant to say "don't exist outside California."submariner wrote:Are you sure they're gone from California? Granted the copyright is 7 years ago, but they have a website (of sorts) still up:
http://www.hsalt.com/locations.htm
- 14 Jan 2010 18:41
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: H. Salt, Esq.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14625
H. Salt, Esq.
Is anyone familiar with this chain? It looks like they don't exist in anywhere else than California anymore, but I've dug up some mid-1970s phone book listings that verify a few in Detroit and one in Lansing. None of these seem to have made it out of the 1970s; Lansing was already a stereo store in ...
- 12 Jan 2010 12:20
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Der Wienerschnitzel
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3339
Re: Der Wienerschnitzel
Hmm. I didn't know Tastee-Freez used A-frames too. I have been told that there was one on Cedar St., but I don't know where exactly it was.
- 11 Jan 2010 15:17
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Der Wienerschnitzel
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3339
Der Wienerschnitzel
Did Der Wienerschnitzel ever actually go into Michigan, or elsewhere in the Midwest? I found one 1968 listing saying that the chain had plans for two stores in Saginaw in 1968, and this repair shop in Lansing and this title loans center in Bloomington, IL both look like former Wienerschnitzels, but ...
- 06 Jan 2010 21:19
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Rite-Aid Sign Replacements for Acquired Chains
- Replies: 33
- Views: 37993
Re: Rite-Aid Sign Replacements for Acquired Chains
Allegan, Michigan has signage like that (see here), so I would imagine it was a grocery store convert from the 1970s as well.
- 27 Nov 2009 15:22
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Early Walgreens stores in Michigan
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10651
Early Walgreens stores in Michigan
Considering how close we are to Illinois, I'm surprised at how few Walgreens stores existed in Michigan before the chain's explosive late-90s growth. So far, these are the only "old school" Walgreens stores I've found in Michigan: *downtown Muskegon. This probably opened in the 1950s or 19...
- 23 Nov 2009 17:06
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: That used to be a department store?!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 12197
Re: That used to be a department store?!
How about a whole mall converted to a call center? I've found at least one former enclosed Belz property that was converted to one. (Shops at River Rock, née Outlets Ltd. Mall, in Murfreesboro, TN.)