[Leica] Fort Wayne's Last Sears Store is Closing

[Tina Manley]

Our local downtown chamber of commerce, many years ago, decided to jump on
the "mall" bandwagon and cover the entire downtown with a roof to make it a
"mall".  It was an abysmal failure.  The roof made the whole downtown dark
and depressing.  Nobody ever went there.  Long before the conversion was
paid for, the new CofC decided to take the roof off and restore the
downtown to historical, downtown Rock Hill!  The old buildings were still
there behind the super-imposed roof.  Downtown is now growing and
prospering, in spite of the decisions of those who know best!!

Tina

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 8:38 PM, Sonny Carter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> La Cornue?
>
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 7:35 PM Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> > We walk sometimes at Penn Square when the weather is not good. Walked
> > past a store that had a stove (range) in the window, and we've been
> > thinking of replacing ours so I walked in.  Asking what something like
> > that might cost, the clerk said, oh, it is a floor model and only
> > $9,000.   Thanking God there is not a camera store there.
> >
> >
> > On 9/14/2018 6:18 PM, Sonny Carter via LUG wrote:
> > > I haven’t been to a mall that consistently is as crowded as Penn Square
> > in
> > > OKC in a lot of years.  The ones in Shreveport, Alexandria, and New
> > Orleans
> > > barely seem to hang on.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 4:50 PM Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Very nice image.  Probably a lot of the malls aren't far behind them,
> > >> although here they seem always full.  Not sure if full of people
> buying
> > >> things, but full.
> > >>
> > >> Ken
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On 9/13/2018 4:56 PM, Christopher Crawford wrote:
> > >>> The last Sears store in Fort Wayne is closing. Sad to see the company
> > >> dying off; my family shopped there all the time when I was young.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?product=2989
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>
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