Giant Steps Forward in State College

    While Giant has only a handful of locations that are within the blog's coverage area, we haven't really explored them. It's time to get the ball rolling with a look at the only location within the counties I cover that I've explored the interior of thus far. This store appears to be a relocation of an older location in Lemont that finally gave a repurpose to long vacant Ames store on the south side of State College. Giant at least kept an exterior detail from Hills and later Ames by not removing the two triangles either side of the main storefront. Enjoy the tour!

Former Kmart #4034

    For the final Kmart tour in the Syracuse market, we find ourselves in Mattydale. This location was actually the first Kmart store in Syracuse- opening in the late 1960s. It technically opened for a second time in 1970 after having been damaged by a fire. This location also wound up being the last Syracuse store in operation closing its doors in late 2019. There was once a cafe, but it appeared to have been closed for quite some time. The pharmacy operation closed a few years before the rest of the store did. Since this was an early Kmart, the auto center was detached from the building and is now being used by Dunn Tire/