Historic photograph - appliance dept. at K-mart showing Frigidaires

[fan-of-fans]

Never knew Kmart sold appliances. Much more colorful and interesting ones too, than the plain white BOL Kenmores they were selling here before they closed.

Also love the pictures. Like seeing the iron and small appliance displays too, and those huge round vents on the ceiling.

 

[48bencix]

Tore it down

They tore down our local Howe Avenue Kmart about 10 years ago and replaced it with a Home Depot. I think it was an original Kmart, and pretty much was worn out. I kind of miss it. I too, never saw appliances in a Kmart. I don't think there was one in San Francisco in 1970 when I lived there. All the Kmarts in Sacramento area are now closed. The remaining one in Placerville is on the current closing list.

 

[sfh074]

The first Kmart I remember ....

Was a Kresge's store in 1968. All the items had price tags that included a big red K on the tag. A few years later it was renamed to Kmart but all the same stuff was in the store and still had the red K price tags. Only thing that changed inside the store was they got rid of the long cafeteria food counter where you could order hot and cold sandwiches and such.

 

[wayupnorth]

We had both an SS Kresge and Super K-Mart. They all closed along with our Sears and Macy's too. Never saw major appliances in our K-Mart. My next door neighbor worked at Sears her entire life and was saddened about the bankruptcy filing but pulled her retirement out several years ago when she retired as store manager.

 

[DADoES]

 
K-Mart closed here many years ago.  Rotary Club project turned it into a Civic Center.

Sears catalog store closed many years ago.  A local furniture store brought in a Sears Hometown couple years ago when they moved into a remodeled facility.