Originally, this Kmart store was located in Lock Haven as a small '70s store from the looks of it. It relocated to its location in Mill Hall in the early 1990s. One interesting thing to note is that this store was supposed to close in the 2002/2003 bankruptcy, but managed to survive thanks to local efforts to preserve the store. Unfortunately, those efforts would not help later when the store closed for good in June of last year. The building remains mostly vacant today with the exception of the garden center side of the store which is now a Harbor Freight Tools store.
Overall this felt like a very well-taken care of store, but sadly that didn't matter.
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| Former auto center |
And we wrap this post with the original location:
Victor, NY was laid out the same way except flip Electronics with the H&BA/Pharmacy sections, and it didn't have the auto center. It also had an odd nook in the front of the registers that was a clearance area for a long time.
ReplyDeleteVictor was actually bigger. A post on that store will come eventually. That odd nook in the front was because the store was bigger.
DeleteOh, yes, it was huge, with wide aisles, probably 30% larger than the average size store. I just wanted to point out that the layout itself was almost the same.
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