Thursday 2 August 2018

Department store ARCHIVES - Famous Barr Eastland Mall Evansville IN.


This Famous Barr location opened in  1996 at Eastland Mall in Evansville Indiana. It was a typical may stores prototype for the time. It was a new build on the site of Ben Snyder's Later acquired by Hess's in 1987. an original anchor structure from 1981.
The store was closed in 2006 after Macy's already had a location in the former Lazarus. It was sold to Dillards who currently occupies the space.
(Pictures courtesy of Arc construction)
Exterior 

Interior near escalators

2 comments:

  1. Wow this was the last famous Barr to close r.i.p

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  2. Not gonna lie Macy’s co. Killed a lot of stores like Lazarus, and famous Barr, Rich’s, and etc.

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