Sports Authority closing sale 2016

Sports Authority Humble Texas

Here are a few photos from a closing sale of the Sports Authority. About 25% of the Sports Authority stores began going out of business sales when they filed for bankruptcy including all of the stores in Texas. A few weeks after these stores began closing sales, the company decided to close the rest of the stores ending the company. 

The Sports Authority came into Houston when Gart Sports merged with Sports Authority and changed the names of the stores. This former Oshman's store was originally across the highway at Deerbrook Mall in a much smaller space. This location opened as an Oshman's Super Sports USA in the mid 90's. The interior of the store looks almost exactly as it did when it opened, minus the Sports Authority signage above the exit doors. This store did not age well and began looking dated about 10 years ago. The Sports Authority was an expensive alternative to Academy and had a hard time competing especially in the past 5 years after the nearby Academy moved into a larger store once again.

This was one strange going out of business sale. They had a few papers at the door for the first week of the sale, but no big signage and pulled a ton of merchandise off of the floor. I guess they sent the best merchandise to the stores that were originally going to stay open. They also shipped in a bunch of sports gear from different cities across the US. While the store was open they had gear from all of the Texas teams, LSU, and whatever team won a championship that year.  

This was the back area of the store with guns, camping supplies, summer games, and football gear.

These signs remained up even after the announcement of the rest of the company closing.

Peeling paint on the air vents, they are like this across the store.

Most, if not all of the players in this photo retired many years ago.

Enjoy the rest of the store

Somebody put some clothes on these mannequins

It is amazing that once a store starts a going out of business sale, parts of the sign stop working.

I am not sure exactly when the sale concluded, but it was about a month after I took the last set of photos.

Here is the same store after the closing sale ended. The sign was taken down a few months of closing.

Radio Shack stores from a few of the malls covered in this blog and others

As the remaining Radio Shack corporate stores that were taken over by Standard General are converted to Radio Shack/Sprint stores, we take a look back at some of the stores that made an appearance on the blog. Some of the photos and stores are new to the blog. Radio Shack started in 1921 and had over 7,000 locations at the peak of the company. Now there are over 1,700 company stores and around 700 franchises since the corporate 2015 bankruptcy.

Houston still has a mall Radio Shack location at the Shops at Houston Center Mall. A quick search does not show any other mall locations along the I-10 corridor from Houston to New Orleans. Are there any other mall locations left in Texas or Louisiana, if there are comment below.

Slidell Town Square Slidell La. now closed. Photos from August 2014.

Memorial City Mall Houston Tx. now closed. Photos from December 2014 before the closing was announced.

Deerbrook Mall Humble Tx. now closed. Photos from December and January 2015.

 January 2015 store closing sale.

Inside of the store, when the closing sale was going on.

One of the fixtures in the store.

San Jacinto Mall Baytown Tx. now closed. Photos from the February 2015 closing sale.

La Gran Plaza Mall Fort Worth Tx. still open as of August 2015. Photo from August of 2012.

Cortana Mall Baton Rouge La. now closed. Photos from January 2012.

Greenspoint Mall Houston Tx. now closed. Photo from 2009.

Wonderland of the Americas San Antonio Tx. now closed. Photos from September 2011.

I can't leave out a shopping center location. Houston Tx. Sawyer Heights Village closed in March 2015. Photo from March 2015.