Sears Parkdale Mall Beaumont Texas

Here is the Sears location at Parkdale Mall in Beaumont Texas. This is one of the stores that will remain open if Fast Eddie's plan is approved later this week. This store opened up sometime in the 1970's but I could not find an exact date.

The mall entrance.

Just after entering the store from the mall, we have the perfumes and jewelry.

Men's clothing

Not much NFL apparel to be found.

A closed optical department with Sears Grand baskets.

Pretty sure these were shipped in from Austin when that Sears Grand closed.

Peeling wall fixtures.

Kids clothing

The lonely checkout counter in the middle of the store.

A strange assortment of clearance items.

The store had a really large tool department, but looked to be in the process of consolidation.

These are from a very different era at Sears.

Shrinking tool department.

Auto department

The lawn and outdoor department.

A lonely, hidden price checker.

An interesting FYI in the mattress department.

The different heights of the ceilings is an interesting design.

A view of the mattress department.

This exterior of the store looks to be in very good condition.

RIP Parkdale Macy's Beaumont Texas

Here is a nice newer former Foleys store that closed in March of 2017. The store was formerly a Montgomery Ward that was extensively remodeled to become a Foleys store which opened in August 2002. The store had a second level that had been closed to the public not long after Macys took the store over. 

For more information about the store and how it was built click here.

The mall entrance to the store. The neighboring Ashley Furniture is also leaving the mall for a different space.

Looking at how nice this store was designed, it is hard to imagine how this store did not perform up to company standards. It did not even last 15 years, in a nearly full mall. The mall is in the main shopping district of town and doing well, why did this store not succeed? 

I had only visited this store maybe 5 times while it was open before and after the second floor was closed off. It was a typical Foley's and Macy's store nothing special about it. 

This is like a creepy version of build a bear workshops, build your own mannequin.

There were a ton of fixtures available at this store. I guess the closed off second floor became a dumping ground for old fixtures. 

It was hard to get a shot of the closed off second floor, so here is the best I could do. 

This was just too funny, a couple of mannequins looking like they are talking about something.

A view of the front cosmetics and jewelry areas at the mall entrance.