Yes, forgot that it had been a Bradlees for a bit in the 1980s! We had a Memco that converted to Bradless in Camp Springs, MD. Though, I think after Bradlees went out of business, it turned into a church. :-o
I know I'm late, but as many have already said, this started off as a Memco, then Bradlees, then K-Mart. This place was a staple of my childhood, especially during the holidays. My Atari 2600 came from Memco, and I got one of the first Sony Walkmans ever made from Bradlees. Oh the memories!
That was originally a membership department store called "Memco"...with its fingernail design opening. I grew up off that street (Sargent Road) but about 3-4 miles away right across the D.C. line. The store was very large and had a lot of departments, including a small grocery store across the back wall. It has aisles and checkout registers with conveyer belts. Across from that was electronics, which included large floor model TV. There was clothing, a toy department, linens... just everything. When Memco closed, it became Bradlees. It then became K-Mart, went out of business and closed all of its stores. By the way, Hyattsville is nowhere near Baltimore. It's part of the Washington (DC) Metropolitan area. It is less than 5 miles from D.C.; Baltimore is about a 30-40 minute drive up the BW Parkway.
That Kmart is about a mile from the DC line. I owned a house in the adjoining DC neighborhood, Brookland for 7 years. I used to shop at that Kmart from time to time. They opened a Walmart in DC at Fort Totten a few miles away in 2015. That was likely the final straw for this store. Before Walmart came on the scene in DC, this Kmart did pretty good business since there was nothing else nearby to compete with it.
Gotta love close borders. Just for example, There is a Chuck E Cheese in the southern Denver area of Colorado that could easily be called Lone Tree or Littleton (two regions of Denver) although their website and maps usually seeem to dictate the CEC on the Lone Tree side of that border.
I used to go to this location as a child. I believe it was formerly Ames right down the street from old Shoneys. I could be wrong because it’s been a while. Wow.
From what I've seen, not all that often that Kmart would take over an existing building. Maybe just me but doesn't it seem more common for Kmarts to be original build stores?
Aspen Hill, MD was one of the last ones to close and it’s still there sitting abandoned. Sits off Connecticut Ave & Georgia Ave in Montgomery County, MD. About 20 min from this location (Hyattsville)
Now I wasnt alive when this kmart was open, but my dad used to tell us stories about how he used to live down there in Chillum hyattsville with his parents, and thats where he would always go to shop for clothes or walmart. Cause my dad had a strict childhood yk his parents wouldnt really buy them anything but clothes and stuff, and they all came from Either walmart, or Kmart. And this is the exact Kmart he used to go to. My dad, his twin brother, and I think his second youngest sister? (My grandparents have 5 children counting him) I dont know he doesnt really tell us anything about her but he does tell us they used to fight a lot. Fight fight. Even then this gives me nostalgia cause when my dad met my mom, we again moved in with his parents and when we went out, we always used to drive past this kmart and slowly started to see no one go there anymore until I realized it was abandoned.
I used to shop there until they closed, it looked about the same as the late 90s it was a bit out of date. They did have a key maker machine. There was one in aspen hill MD that closed as well.
Greenbelt Maryland as well as Hyattsville, were formerly Memco stores as noted below. Adelphi Maryland (Langley Park) was originally an EJ Korvette store. Kmart, begining in the mid 1970's, assumed the leases of many former closed competitors, including WT Grant, Caldor ,Town and Country, Woolco, and others. Some of those locations were left behind in the 1990's as Kmart built the new "Oak Park" prototype corner entrance stores. In some towns, you will find two abandoned Kmarts of different vintages...
I didn't know the Greenbelt location was a Memco!? It doesn't have the look of one, like the Hyattsville Kmart and the Camp Springs Bradlees with the distinctive awnings.
That Wendy's looks similar to the one in Hermitage,Pennsylvania. Speaking of Hermitage, there is an abandoned Brusters, Denny's, Shop n Save, and a Sears auto center. I enjoyed the Perkins video from nearly a year ago. Keep up the great work!!!!
It used to called Memco it was converted ti k mart converted it those arches had blue covers. My dad took us here many times. I keyed less than5 miles from there as a child.
There's an abandoned Kmart near my house in Chicago's Southwest side with a walk-up pharmacy window outside and a bus terminal on the side too where the CTA bus #67 stopped to rest during the weekends but is no longer used.
Yes, definitely the distinctive Memco architecture with the arches and awnings. Same with the former Memco/Bradlees in Camp Springs, MD. Probably elsewhere, I imagine.
I’ve noticed that A lot of kmarts that didn’t have a Little Caesars or K café had a Wendy’s in the parking lot or across the street, it’s like that with the Saint Paul Minnesota big Kmart and the one in Minneapolis big kmart that Closed years ago
A great video, Wallie! That's the first KMart I've seen with the cool brick pillars in the front entrance. The 2 KMart stores that I shopped at was here in Weirton,WV and Steubenville,Ohio.
This is so cool watching this cause I live near that k mart and I remember going there as a kid a lot of times right now in 2021 they blocked of every entrance of the parking lot and like he said if you live near the k mart like me you can just walk over there to do some shopping.
Cool 😀 The arch's remind me of the Belk's at Friendly Shopping Center in Greensboro NC. I went there a lot with my Grandparent's in the 1980's and 1990's.
"DieHard", "Craftsman", "Kenmore" .... ah the Irony. All SEARS Brands at a K-MART. Well, they would be if it were Open... But they are Closed just like Sears is in most places.
If Eddie Lambert had any intent to run them as retail, he would have dumped the Kmart name, Closed most of them, and turn the rest of them into Sears. Instead he saved Kmart just to kill it again anyway, then got Sears and killed it too. What a shame.
The biggest reason most didn't go to Kmart, was because Kmart stopped giving them a reason to- when you don't carry everything people need at prices that are competitive even if they live 1 foot from the store, they WILL drive to someplace that gives them everything they need at prices they can afford (that's the very reason Walmart passed them in 1990 with just about half the number of stores).
As large as it was, surprisingly, I don't think they ever branded it as a Big K store. Previously, it was a Memco and then Bradlees, before Kmart moved in.
That was a really cool explore Wally 🤠. The Kmart looked like it was locked 🔐. I wonder what it looked like inside. Looks like the power is still on inside. I loved the architecture of the building. The place definitely looks like it was something else before I don't remember the KMART'S being in that Fancy.
Cool video guys and all but I have some interesting news guys. Apparently in September Eddie Lambert stepped down as ceo of Sears holdings I think but it's still owned by his other brand transform co. So who knows what's next for kmart.
It sucks that Kmart and Sears have a potential that they might go out of business completely because of Eddie Lampert and his money he embezzles from these stores and it is actually illegal to embezzle money
Like the looks of that old Kmart and the looks of that old Wendy's don't see Wendy's like that anymore and I never seen a Kmart that looks like this one
Can you make a trip to California? There is three Kmart's in Southern California: Long Beach, Costa Mesa, and Big Bear! The Long Beach and Costa Mesa Kmart's are only like 30 minutes away from each other.
This looks like an old Kroger/ Super X Drugstore design that they used in 1990. Super X closed in 1993. Then REVCO Dug brought Super X and then REVCO went bankrupt in 1997 and CVS Corp brought all REVCO and it wet to CVS by the end of 1998.
I wish this kmart didn't closed. I remembered going shopping there a lot back in the mid 2000s when I was a kid.
This was a former Memco, just for anyone who is curious. Also, was a Bradlees too before Kmart. This is one of my local stores :)
so that's why it has that unique exterior design
Yes, forgot that it had been a Bradlees for a bit in the 1980s! We had a Memco that converted to Bradless in Camp Springs, MD. Though, I think after Bradlees went out of business, it turned into a church. :-o
As a child I used to frequent Memco and I actually worked at this when it was Bradlees back when it opened in 1983.
@@jamesgambino3084 That's so cool to know! Did you ever visit it as Kmart? And if you did, were there any remnants remaining of Bradlees you noticed?
Me and you both.
I know I'm late, but as many have already said, this started off as a Memco, then Bradlees, then K-Mart. This place was a staple of my childhood, especially during the holidays. My Atari 2600 came from Memco, and I got one of the first Sony Walkmans ever made from Bradlees. Oh the memories!
I live down the street used to love coming to this k mart, all a memory now 😢
I grew up going to kmart. It was cheap. But it feels weird that they're gone.
That was originally a membership department store called "Memco"...with its fingernail design opening. I grew up off that street (Sargent Road) but about 3-4 miles away right across the D.C. line. The store was very large and had a lot of departments, including a small grocery store across the back wall. It has aisles and checkout registers with conveyer belts. Across from that was electronics, which included large floor model TV. There was clothing, a toy department, linens... just everything. When Memco closed, it became Bradlees. It then became K-Mart, went out of business and closed all of its stores. By the way, Hyattsville is nowhere near Baltimore. It's part of the Washington (DC) Metropolitan area. It is less than 5 miles from D.C.; Baltimore is about a 30-40 minute drive up the BW Parkway.
That Kmart is about a mile from the DC line. I owned a house in the adjoining DC neighborhood, Brookland for 7 years. I used to shop at that Kmart from time to time. They opened a Walmart in DC at Fort Totten a few miles away in 2015. That was likely the final straw for this store. Before Walmart came on the scene in DC, this Kmart did pretty good business since there was nothing else nearby to compete with it.
That Hyattsville Kmart is actually part of the Washington DC area not Baltimore
Gotta love close borders. Just for example, There is a Chuck E Cheese in the southern Denver area of Colorado that could easily be called Lone Tree or Littleton (two regions of Denver) although their website and maps usually seeem to dictate the CEC on the Lone Tree side of that border.
Lived Infront of it for 20 years
I got my first n64 here way back in 97 brings back memories.
I used to go to this location as a child. I believe it was formerly Ames right down the street from old Shoneys. I could be wrong because it’s been a while. Wow.
Close! It was Bradlees, and before that it started as Memco.
It was a good Kmart I always went there
Built originally as a Memco in 1970 and then a Bradlees in 1983, this Kmart first opened in 1989.
From what I've seen, not all that often that Kmart would take over an existing building. Maybe just me but doesn't it seem more common for Kmarts to be original build stores?
Aspen Hill, MD was one of the last ones to close and it’s still there sitting abandoned. Sits off Connecticut Ave & Georgia Ave in Montgomery County, MD. About 20 min from this location (Hyattsville)
Thx for exploring my Kmart near me!
Now I wasnt alive when this kmart was open, but my dad used to tell us stories about how he used to live down there in Chillum hyattsville with his parents, and thats where he would always go to shop for clothes or walmart. Cause my dad had a strict childhood yk his parents wouldnt really buy them anything but clothes and stuff, and they all came from Either walmart, or Kmart. And this is the exact Kmart he used to go to. My dad, his twin brother, and I think his second youngest sister? (My grandparents have 5 children counting him) I dont know he doesnt really tell us anything about her but he does tell us they used to fight a lot. Fight fight. Even then this gives me nostalgia cause when my dad met my mom, we again moved in with his parents and when we went out, we always used to drive past this kmart and slowly started to see no one go there anymore until I realized it was abandoned.
It was just a reg kmart i remember when Memco was there and then later on Bradlees
Yup
I use to work at this Kmart. I started in 2013-2015
I used to shop there until they closed, it looked about the same as the late 90s it was a bit out of date. They did have a key maker machine.
There was one in aspen hill MD that closed as well.
Relaxing by the fireplace while watching this odd looking abandoned Kmart! I love WallieB26!!
I betcha that was once a Memco.
I'm late to the party, but I absolutely love that store front! Not typical of Kmart, and that's why it makes it unique
If your curious, it was a Memco Department Store, Then a bradlees
Wow! How amazing! 😀👍 Have a Kmartlicious Day!
Greenbelt Maryland as well as Hyattsville, were formerly Memco stores as noted below. Adelphi Maryland (Langley Park) was originally an EJ Korvette store.
Kmart, begining in the mid 1970's, assumed the leases of many former closed competitors, including WT Grant, Caldor ,Town and Country, Woolco, and others.
Some of those locations were left behind in the 1990's as Kmart built the new "Oak Park" prototype corner entrance stores.
In some towns, you will find two abandoned Kmarts of different vintages...
I didn't know the Greenbelt location was a Memco!? It doesn't have the look of one, like the Hyattsville Kmart and the Camp Springs Bradlees with the distinctive awnings.
Originally opened in 1970 as Memco, then Bradlees and finally Kmart in 1989
The arches remind me of old Sanger Harris stores
That Wendy's looks similar to the one in Hermitage,Pennsylvania. Speaking of Hermitage, there is an abandoned Brusters, Denny's, Shop n Save, and a Sears auto center. I enjoyed the Perkins video from nearly a year ago. Keep up the great work!!!!
I grew up down the street from it and got caught stealing from the store before K Mart came in ,it was a Department store called Bradlees
The front of that store reminds me of the movie theaters here back in the day.
Nice vid; architecture looks almost classical; and you're not being judgemental, you're being safe. Take care!
It used to called Memco it was converted ti k mart converted it those arches had blue covers. My dad took us here many times. I keyed less than5 miles from there as a child.
Hey Wallie. That Kmart Is The Store That I Go In Sep 2016. And My Childhood Store. And Yes I Live In Hyatttsville, Maryland
There's an abandoned Kmart near my house in Chicago's Southwest side with a walk-up pharmacy window outside and a bus terminal on the side too where the CTA bus #67 stopped to rest during the weekends but is no longer used.
I used to go to this kmart
That Kmart I have some good memories with her when I heard it close well that was sad but I’m I wish that Kmart Lassala longer.
This might have been a Memco store before it was a Kmart
Yes, definitely the distinctive Memco architecture with the arches and awnings. Same with the former Memco/Bradlees in Camp Springs, MD. Probably elsewhere, I imagine.
I’ve noticed that A lot of kmarts that didn’t have a Little Caesars or K café had a Wendy’s in the parking lot or across the street, it’s like that with the Saint Paul Minnesota big Kmart and the one in Minneapolis big kmart that Closed years ago
The Wendy's and the Pizza hut were there way before it was ever a Kmart.
What a cool looking Kmart! Looks like a museum or a City Hall. 😀
I wonder why he didn’t sell the company to someone who cares about it
No one wants Kmart- no one wanted it in 2002 despite having nearly 2,000 stores, so no one would want it nearly 20 years later.
@@jackson5116 That’s sad 😔
Great video wallie.. Different kmart forsure thanks for sharing this one :D
A great video, Wallie! That's the first KMart I've seen with the cool brick pillars in the front entrance. The 2 KMart stores that I shopped at was here in Weirton,WV and Steubenville,Ohio.
The front of that Kmart reminds me of a Foley's store don't know why
The front seems to remind me of an Ivey's but I could be wrong.
@@pinball541 Gotya.
I can see that,😀
This is so cool watching this cause I live near that k mart and I remember going there as a kid a lot of times right now in 2021 they blocked of every entrance of the parking lot and like he said if you live near the k mart like me you can just walk over there to do some shopping.
Cool 😀 The arch's remind me of the Belk's at Friendly Shopping Center in Greensboro NC. I went there a lot with my Grandparent's in the 1980's and 1990's.
had a few memories there. correct me if im wrong but its been kind of an abandoned building for a few years at this point.
"DieHard", "Craftsman", "Kenmore" .... ah the Irony. All SEARS Brands at a K-MART. Well, they would be if it were Open... But they are Closed just like Sears is in most places.
If Eddie Lambert had any intent to run them as retail, he would have dumped the Kmart name, Closed most of them, and turn the rest of them into Sears. Instead he saved Kmart just to kill it again anyway, then got Sears and killed it too. What a shame.
The biggest reason most didn't go to Kmart, was because Kmart stopped giving them a reason to- when you don't carry everything people need at prices that are competitive even if they live 1 foot from the store, they WILL drive to someplace that gives them everything they need at prices they can afford (that's the very reason Walmart passed them in 1990 with just about half the number of stores).
Definitely a very unique Kmart, could have been a very Large Big K. Thank you for sharing.
As large as it was, surprisingly, I don't think they ever branded it as a Big K store. Previously, it was a Memco and then Bradlees, before Kmart moved in.
That was a really cool explore Wally 🤠. The Kmart looked like it was locked 🔐. I wonder what it looked like inside. Looks like the power is still on inside. I loved the architecture of the building. The place definitely looks like it was something else before I don't remember the KMART'S being in that Fancy.
i used to go almost everyday there when i was little :(
Kayla you do realize what the front looks like??? Neiman Marcus over in the south Ft Worth area. They just don't have the mural like here.
Wow the outside of this kmart is very unique. Never seen an outside of a kmart building look like that.
The prison yard was there garden shop
Is just fire alarm at now abandoned Kmart hyattsville and there's no fire.
I went there the last month they closed it was really sad seeing Kmart going out of business
Wow this is one looking nice Kmart!
I remember going to this Kmart!
Cool video guys and all but I have some interesting news guys. Apparently in September Eddie Lambert stepped down as ceo of Sears holdings I think but it's still owned by his other brand transform co. So who knows what's next for kmart.
It sucks that Kmart and Sears have a potential that they might go out of business completely because of Eddie Lampert and his money he embezzles from these stores and it is actually illegal to embezzle money
yeah
Kmart yes sears no. They have a plan and are opening smaller sears stores. Kmart is sadly finished.
@@edwardsr70 rip kmart
WallieB if you go any other place in Maryland please let me know I grew up in that state
I use to go there😔😔
Oh wow i didnt know this Kmart closed
The prison yard is more prisoney than usual.
That was the garden center.
11:55 Have A Kmartlicious Day
Awesome video
I remember my mom putting stuff on layaway at Kmart
Wow this Kmart looks sick!!
Never seen a kmart set up like that but cool
Yo the fucking memories I lived in the neighborhood across the street back in the day
That's a really cool looking Kmart Too bad there's not too many left Too bad there's not too many sears left either
It used to called Memco
If you guys ever want to explore Preble County, Ohio I would love to meet and explore with you guys. A lot of abandoned places out here.
Like the looks of that old Kmart and the looks of that old Wendy's don't see Wendy's like that anymore and I never seen a Kmart that looks like this one
Great video of a cool kmart and wallieb26 there is a cool old school wendy's here in Cleveland TN it's on 25th Street and near highway 75
You should cross The Bay Bridge ($2.50 with E-ZPass) and go to the still open Kent Island, Maryland Kmart
It got closed down on February 14th 2020
Cool
There is a cleared out Kmart where I used to work... it’s Erie seeing it with only the bare floor
Wallie hilarious 🤣🤣
I enjoyed coming there with my parents im 17 btw
I saw it on google maps. Sad 😔
Can you make a trip to California? There is three Kmart's in Southern California: Long Beach, Costa Mesa, and Big Bear! The Long Beach and Costa Mesa Kmart's are only like 30 minutes away from each other.
This looks like an old Kroger/ Super X Drugstore design that they used in 1990. Super X closed in 1993. Then REVCO Dug brought Super X and then REVCO went bankrupt in 1997 and CVS Corp brought all REVCO and it wet to CVS by the end of 1998.
Maybe it's the arches that have a similar look? As far as I recall, it was a Memco in the 70s/80s.
The front of this store is very similiar to the location in Waterford Michigan.
It looks like an old bank
That's w huge Kmart wow....
It was a memco
WallieB26 it used to be a maarco store then it became a kmart in 1989
It's Memco then Bradless Kmart
Hey! Another Kmart!
Wallie your not far from me , that’s not far from PG Plaza . That was once a Memco department store back in the day and yes it’s near Chillum .
if you have a gaming PC and play VRChat someone actually modeled a Kmart 1:1 into a world.
I actually when to this Kmart a few times last thing before it closed the last thing I bought form it was a pack of uno card
Great video Wallie!! 9-0 Stillers!
it was a grants i think
Wait I live near it and it’s not a Abomdon as much as I remember tho
The front of the store look roman like.
Like a roman aquaduct.
It looks life an old Randalles Grocery Store.
The front facade looks like the front grill of a Jeep Patriot
I live in Puerto Rico and my local Kmart is open I work there
looks like an old furniture store.
Where I live we have a old looking Wendy’s too