Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: store

This jewellery store was entirely covered in what looked like Christmas lights. This might be the usual lighting, but I doubt it because of the costs and maintenance involved. It was still less than two weeks after New Year's, so I figured they still hadn't taken down the Christmas decorations yet.

This is an abandoned Ames store, which if I'm not mistaken is in Binghamton, NY. It really is a sign of the times when a semi-big-box store like Ames goes out of business. Ames was successful throughout the Northeastern and Midwestern U.S. from the 1950's through the 1990's, but eventually went out of business in 2002, in spite of having absorbed competitors like Zayre... www.flickr.com/photos/jarchie/3468192709/ In my area, most of the Ames stores of the 1990's had been Zayre stores in the 1980's. The fate of the company's old properties remains undetermined for the moment, although when I call this store "abandoned," I mean by the owner. I'm sure that there's someone somewhere who owns it and still wants to rent it out.

Here's an alternate shot of the gerbils.

I've forgotten the name of this pet shop, but it's on Jindrisska, or Senovazne Namesti to be more precise (I don't know which is on the address). The gerbil on the right (or at least I think these are gerbils), was giving me a fair amount of attention, which I found a little bit surprising. Usually only rats will pay this much attention to a passing human.