Store 673 South Tuttle Dr. Sarasota St Augustine. They enjoyed a good period, but the Hills acquisition created a lot of debt and that, combined with a bad economy caused another "Zayre storm" for Ames. What's nice is that there are still several very busy rail customers in the park that is served daily by this local that can access it only by running down Amtrak's Northeast Corridor. Zayre's Department Store was the major tenant, with others including the WTVC Channel 9 studios, Shoney's, and a Red Food Store (accessible by escalator). and serviced consignees along Amtrak's Northeast Corridor between Canton Jct. In the photo, the flat behind the locos was likely to/from the steel place. to run around their train. Serve as Operations stakeholder on the executive team, replacing former CEO and President after acquisition . It is now TJ Maxx (which makes sense since the Zayre Corp. was absorbed by the TJX Co.). By 1990, Ames had closed 74 Zayre stores, and the rest were converted into Ames stores. In 1984 it started the BJ's Wholesale Club chain. The business enterprise later offered off the "Zayre" name and consisted of its one remaining save brand, T.J.Maxx. Since then it was a shoe store for a brief period in the mid-2000s, and currently (as of March 9, 2022), only Big Lots occupies the left half of the former Winn-Dixie. Albers was a grocery store in Cincinnati that may actually be known as the very first "supermarket." This is the former Ames store at 8400 Eastern Avenue in Dundalk, MD located in the Diamond Point Plaza shopping center. Thatcher Interlocking can be seen in the distance. There was then 27 Ames in the state and 632 nationwide. Zayre was one of only a few stores to remain open 24 hours a day during the weeks preceding Christmas each year. Former Zayre Distribution center 1420 Gordon Food Service Dr, Plant City, FL 33563 Pompano Beach. City Hall illuminated with projected lights for the 2005 winter holidays. In 1975 Zayre started a program entitled "Zayre '75" to remodel and update the stores. & the Attleboro/Hebronville area, including the East Jct. Then they added the Tjmaxx stores in the 70's and Bj's Wholesale club. While the concept of a drugstore is still around, they tend to go through several name changes, and SuperX is one that definitely feels nostalgic. A former Zayre. By using this site, you agree to its use of cookies. Ah yesthe good old days in Cincinnati. At that point, the Zayre locations were closed and Home Depot, now becoming a national chain, abandoned the original smaller stores. Less than a year later, the Edward J. DeBartolo Corporation opened the much larger Volusia Mall, a few blocks west of Daytona Mall, on October 14, 1974. Many of these stores have already closed several locations, and they . This website is not affiliated with the former Zayre chain or the Tjx Companies. Slogan: We'd like to make Zayre your store! The department store needed a name, however. . Its list of anchors today include Stein Mart, Marshalls, Barnes & Noble, Bealls Outlet, ULTA, Petco, Staples, Ross Dress for Less, Hobby Lobby and Big Lots. After earning an education degree and working in that field for a number of years, Andrea began to pursue her passion for writing over 6 years ago. York Steak House was a steak and potatoes chain that you could find here in Cincinnati. The past is thus as real as the present.Charlie Dunbar Broad (18871971), Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.Susan Sontag (b. [4], By 1990, all Zayre stores had been closed or converted into Ames stores, and what had once been America's fifth largest discount retailer was no more.[11]. How many of these stores do you remember? CSXT local B733 from Walpole is on tbe Amtrak New Haven Line Main 1 passing the MBTA commuter rail platforms having just come off the Framingham Secondary at Mansfield interlocking, MP 204 on the corridor. ?-2001) Florsheim Shoe Stores / Multiple Chicagoland area locations Some of the former Zayre stores operated under the Ames name until Ames ceased operations in 2002. On many Zayre stores, the door handles featured the famous Zayre asterisks logo. Ames sold the Zayre shoe division to J.Baker in 1989. Demolished 1998. opened 1975, closed 1990, demolished in 1998 to make way for a 417 loop. Here's the former Zayre in Marcus Plaza in Norwich. 1/1/2023. Cabot Business Park is known as West Mansfield of Zayre's to the railroaders that work it. While the stock was entitled to annual dividends, Ames had the option of paying the first four semiannual dividends with more Ames preferred stock rather than cash, an option that Ames exercised for each of the payments it had met. After its final main anchor Belk-Lindsey closed for good in March 1995, new owner Atlanta-based Cousins Properties razed the mall and redeveloped it as a power center in mid-1995. Elk Grove Village IL. Have a story from back in the day about Zayre? In 1988, the Zayre department stores were sold to the . If you want to use this photo please contact me (Nicholas Eckhart) in one of the following ways: >Send an email to eckhartnicholas@yahoo.com. Reply Delete The lone GP40-2 and two cars will make a half mile sprint down the main and then clear up at Zayres to go work in the Cabot Business park in West Mansfield. [A][4], Zayre was founded in 1919 as the New England Trading Company in Boston, Massachusetts, by brothers Max and Morris Feldberg. Does any one remember the Zayres located in the MLK mall in Roxbury, Mass in the late 80s? Zayre was a chain of department stores that began in the Northeast and made its way to the Cincinnati area. Zayre has competed with such discounters as Fisher's Big Wheel, Kmart, Walmart and Hills Department Stores. That same month, Ames filed for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. The effort went slowly and proved to be very costly. . 160 38K views 12 years ago This is a 1980's TV Ad for Zayre, a discount department store that operated in the Northeastern, Southern and Midwestern United States from 1956 to 1990. The former Zayre stores were now operated by Ames. Be Unique. In February 1988 they filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy, and in October 1988 the Zayre stores were sold to the competing Ames chain. Zayre began to feature appearances from celebrities such as Sherman Hemsley and Robert Guillaume in "Grand Re-openings" of their major stores, but even these events failed to improve their market share. Zayre also acquired a few locations in Ohio in 1986 from Meijer; these locations were part of Meijer's failed "Meijer Square" concept. Many former Zayre stores as Ames actually kept the 60's "wing" looking store look, though boarding off the large frontal window panes like Kmart did as they moved into the 1990s. They are shoving across Forbes Blvd. Longtime New York Times retail writer Isadore Barmash explained the origin of the chain's name in a 1985 article: One day the Feldbergs and Bert Stern, an advertising consultant, were casting around for possible names for the new operation when Max broke off to take a call. Eating at Shakey's was a blast and the pizza was great. The men stared at one another. Ames, however, kept the exterior similar to the style of Zayre at the former Zayre locations. Comprised of 300,000 square feet, Daytona Mall opened in December 1973 as a fully-enclosed addition to an existing Montgomery Ward at the intersection of International Speedway Boulevard and Nova Road. Former Zayre Discount Store located at 1016 US Route 2 in Rumford,ME. It has been abandoned since 2002, and sits aside the mostly empty Diamond Point Plaza. Not only was Zayre one of the oldest names in cut-rate retailing, dating from the. Zayre's timing could not have been better. The building was later home to a shoe store, and after that, it was subdivided into a Big Lots and a Save-A-Lot. Pompano Beach Fla Sarasota. While most Ames locations are currently housing new businesses, this 62,235 square foot building has been vacant since the chain declared bankruptcy back in 2002. FORMER ZAYRE LOCATIONSBLOOMFIELD (Copaco Shopping Center) ENFIELD (Stateline Plaza) SOUTHINGTON (Queens Plaza, now Bob's Discount Furniture/Plaza) EAST HARTFORD NORWICH (Marcus Plaza; now TJ Maxx) FORMER KING'S LOCATIONS NEW HAVEN SEYMOUR WINSTED FORMER CALDOR LOCATIONSMANCHESTER MIDDLETOWN OLD SAYBROOK TORRINGTON VERNON-ROCKVILLE WATERFORD Lee Ward's / Multiple Chicagoland area locations (1947-1994), Colby's Furniture / Multiple Chicagoland area locations (1866-1991), Animal Kingdom / 2980 N. Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL. A Cincinnati native who has lived in Kentucky for over 10 years, Andrea's heart belongs both in the Queen City and the Bluegrass State. Its worth noting this Zayre location was renamed Ames following their 1988 acquisition of the Zayre chain. The department store needed a name however. Ames, however, kept the exterior similar to the style of Zayre at the former Zayre locations. This version of Zayre was found only in Minnesota. Zayre's other brands were reorganized under the corporate umbrella of the renamed TJX Companies. OnlyInYourState may earn compensation through affiliate links in this article. [8], In Zayre's early years, the stores' product mix leaned heavily toward softlines due to the Feldbergs experience in fashion, gained through years of operating the Bell Shops/Nugent stores. I would work from 6:00 to 10:00 on a typical night. Winn-Dixie changed out some of their exterior signage in the late 2003/early 2004 timeframe, prior to their chapter 11 bankruptcy announcement in early 2005. This former Kroger is now a Big Lots. Later on, Tighe Bros Warehouse would also build a siding on this lead adjacent to the Amtrak mainline. In the early 1980s Zayre moved into the electronic era but in a seemingly unified way. The Bell Shops/Nugent stores were suffering due to the decline of downtown business districts and to the rise of "mill" discount store operations. IL. crazy) parking lot. Jr. Ames-Lad! High Point, North Carolina, United States. Note this Zayre store opened in 1985, three years later the chain would be acquired by Ames. The takeover was difficult and contributed to major losses for Ames. Here's a walk down memory lane at ten once popular enclosed malls around the state that don't exist anymore. Ames closed the store following the chain's bankruptcy in 2003 leaving the building vacant until 2007 when Marden's opened. Zayre, which means "very good" in Yiddish, started in Hyannis, Massachusetts, in 1956 as a discount department store. Did you know Pete Rose once had a restaurant on the west side of Cincinnati? 241 Wooster Rd N, Barberton, OH. At Zayre's, there were 8-9 customers located in the W. Mansfield Industrial Park. After heading west out of Readville, they would work in Mansfield at Blaine Chemical & American Paper and then clear up at the Zayre's switch. Replies. During the takeover, Ames kept the Zayre stores for a while. In 1967, it was expanded to include a 300,000 square foot indoor mall anchored by JCPenney and Montgomery Wards. Food was served cafeteria-style, but they all were gone by 1989. For more nostalgia in the Hoosier state, check out these incredible retro burger joints. When that effort failed, the company hired Bernard 'Ben' Cammarata, previously General Merchandise Manager of Marshalls, to essentially create a Marshalls clone. In 1986, profits of the Zayre chain, targeting low- to middle-income customers, dropped, although T.J. Maxx, Hit or Miss, and Chadwick's of Boston, targeting mid- to higher-income customers, continued to grow. In the first half of 1988, Zayre stores had operating losses of $69 million on sales of $1.4 billion. We create models of zayre department stores as well as other long gone retailers. There was then 27 Ames in the state and 632 nationwide. A former Zayre. This store has been closed since the chain's demise in 2002. opened 1973, closed 1989, demolished in the mid-90s to make way for a 417 loop. Courtesy of Netpark Tampa Bay. Courtesy of Google Streetview. Especially with the news that Toys R' Us is on its way out, former toy stores like Children's Palace definitely have us longing for the past.