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This is super interesting. I worked in the Ames Corporate Office when we closed. The rumors were flying that week so there wasn’t a lot of work being done. Just a lot of nervous chatter. Then one day when we came in, I think it was Wednesday, there was a cardboard box in everyone’s office for personal items and that was it. Most of us were gone before lunch and on our way home to start the job hunt. By far one of the most surreal experiences of my life.

The Ames in Horseheads, NY is still there sitting empty. The signs are actually still there! This was originally a Hills location. There was another Ames in Elmira, maybe a mile from the one in Horseheads on the same road. That one closed in the 90s. It was a Big Lots for awhile and eventually the entire plaza was turned into an office park.

I find history so fascinating! Thanks for bringing all these companies back and making me remember them. Keep the quality vids coming..

Wonderful video! In the town I grew up in, the Ames department store is currently a thrift store. I remember many people in the town being disappointed when Ames shut down. Please keep up the great work!

Thank you for this nostalgia.

I used to love going this Ames as a kid.

The Zayre in my city was converted into an Ames, then closed down shortly after. It was eventually replaced by Big Lots, which is still there today.

Please make more videos asap, I really enjoy them. They are awesome, I like your style and I love the "I'm happy for this guitar" intro music.

Lol I came to this video to relook on the history of Ames and the one I went to as a kid was the first one you mentioned. The Ames in Seabrook!

The Ames Department Store in Oneida New York is now the Oneida Indian Nation so you can check out that old Ames Department Store in Oneida New York.

I used to shop at Ames in Meriden Ct. the building is now gone for a Lowes.

Around 1990, they bought Zayres

I met my 1st wife while we were both working at Jamesway. When our Jamesway closed down in Dec of '95, she went to work for Ames. When our local Ames closed down shortly after, she went to work at Woolworth's. While she was on maternity leave in '97, Woolworth's went out of business. It seems like every job she loved went out of business...she was just bad luck! LoL

Ames was not a nationwide chain, only in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast USA. Ames made the mistake buying other retailers which put them in too much debt

They’re coming back in Spring 2023!

Gowanda, NY..... Still sitting there.

Awesome video of the history of Ames !!!

I saw your video. Very nice. You are doing a good job. Its good that there are multiple channels that do histories about defunct companies. I like to see how other channels interpret the histories. Thanks for watching my videos.

I used to go to Ames in New Castle Delaware with my Grandfather

There is still one perfectly intact and untouched in Brooklyn Ohio. It's also a former Gold Circle Department Store. Its almost located directly across Memphis Kiddie Park should check it out only 1 other youtuber made a video on it! This specific location also has an old Stop N Shop grocery store to the left of it also intact abandoned untouched in 1970s styling it sits far from the road so has a huge parking lot.

The one in plastow NH turned into kohls

Hi I have another location for you to check out. Its in the teal colors still and the sign is still on the building that is now abandon. The store is in Essex Maryland on Eastern ave.

The first store was in Southbridge, Massachusetts. Not Connecticut

Hazleton, Pa. It's been closed for almost 20 years.

Ames is back baby 2023 a new Ames decade is coming and it’s official

Was there when it happened (both times). worked in the home office (2418 main st, rocky hill ct) - building is still there. Zayre killed us temporarily.. Hills killed us permanently. Joe Ettore didn't help. edit: if you're interested in seeing the abandoned building (home office) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sKuYlqdhu9XRe3k.html

Awesome may becoming back...

We had Ames and Bradlees where I grew up. Both were the same thing. Loved them as a kid. I found an AMES about 10 years ago that opened new near me in NC but it was mostly just overstock and such. Like a new junk store. Only lasted about a year and went out of business. Who knows maybe they didn't have the rights to use the name and logo.

was ames ever in Canada, they should come up here and operate in Canada . we have barely anything left .

Important update. Ames is coming back planning to open a few stores in a few states. So glad, competition is good. Will be selling food also now

Did I hear correctly when you mentioned Ames bought out Bradlees? I worked at Bradlees for years and I have never heard of such thing! I wonder, if this is accurate, when it happened? I was an employee of Bradlees Dept.Store (a Stop & Shop Company in Lewiston, ME ) and we closed our location June 9th 1996 . The chain went bankrupt ultimately and closed all stores several years later. The former building I worked at was NEVER again a department store. A movie theater opened in that space for quite awhile and then they also closed. I wonder when a store totally shuts down and goes bankrupt, if a person or group of former employees could open a new Bradlees or Ames? And run it so it would succeed!

1:51 I know about that ames I didn't know you were going to bring up this one because it didn't have a purpose when they closed that one

Essex MD is still abandoned

Does anyone recall Sky City in mid-Atlantic mainly I believe? Nice chain which was similar to Walmart, or k Mart, but much smaller. Do something on it if you would .

We had an AMes in Ontario NY that was the last to close.

Monticello NY had one and closed in 2002

i think a handful of their stores are still abandoned

Check out the old decrepit Ames In Horseheads, NY

Where's the sound

To this day, Ames is still making purchases.

Our local ames was always a dumb. Tiles broken and missing, ceiling tiles stained from leaks, everything yellow color like it hasent been painted in 30 yrs.

isnt Hills for the Mills still around ?

I’d love to see a video about Clover department store. I don’t think anyone’s covered that one. Does anyone remember it?

My 1st job. Until Wally World moved in.

pretty sure the ames building is still standing in shamokin pa.

What happened to winco

Ames is coming back

I worked at the Ames Department Store in Naugatuck, CT...mid 1980's.. GOOD DAYS!! Wish I stayed in touch with the floor and girls upstairs.... Mia Johnson..where are you?? Either way, if they had been around today, they would have remained competitive...

Ames opening back????? 👀👀😊

So they couldnt stop scarfing up stores. Like hoarders. Greed.

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Ames tried to copy Hills department store, it failed miserably. No one liked it at all.😡

Didn’t Value City Department Stores finally put Ames out of business?