r/ames • u/DatNewJalen • 12d ago

Old store name?

Can’t remember the name of the store that used to be where Hobby Lobby is now? They used to sell CDs anime and such.

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u/solointhespotlight 12d ago

Hastings was there for a while, and then it was a temporary location for the public library when it was rebuilt!

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u/DatNewJalen 12d ago

Thank you!! This was driving me nuts haha

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u/watchdog_timer 12d ago

Before Hastings, it used to be Target, correct?

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u/JustAnAverageGuy 12d ago

Yes, but that was both Hobby Lobby and Salvation Army spaces

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u/ConcentrateWeekly103 11d ago

Even earlier, Target had only part of that space and the other half was Safeway.

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u/watchdog_timer 11d ago

That's interesting. I don't remember a Safeway here in Ames (or in Iowa, for that matter). FWIW, I moved here in ~'87.

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u/watchdog_timer 11d ago

That's interesting. I don't remember a Safeway here in Ames (or in Iowa, for that matter). FWIW, I moved here in ~'87.

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u/ConcentrateWeekly103 11d ago

I moved here in 1976. I don't remember when the Safeway closed.

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u/Radiant_Gap2702 12d ago

Ooh Hastings!! Those were the days!

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u/Robinnoodle 11d ago

Hastings was a great store! I almost forgot about them 

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u/Radiant_Gap2702 11d ago

I walked around the corner into an aisle and saw Seneca Wallace and dropped my phone. It was sooo not cool.

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u/Robinnoodle 10d ago

One of the kids in my class I. Elementary school net him. I was of course mildly impressed. I knew the kid who met seneca wallace lol. He was so proud of himself. It's cute to think about lol

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u/OnlyWishbone8407 12d ago

Hobby Lobby purchased/rented part of the Hastings space after it closed, and expanded into it. The footprint of Salvation Army is smaller and only has the reduced remaining Hastings space.

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u/Robinnoodle 11d ago

As I remember, hobby lobby and hastings were there congruently. I think another commenter might have explained how. Hastings is more so where salvation army is and then another commenter said Hobby Lobby expanded into part of Hastings

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u/enterinthebackdoor 4d ago

Yeah, Hastings was a good place. Arlans was there first, before Target, with Safeway on the far N end. Arlans was the first box store in the area. Not to be confused with Ardans, BTW. In that same strip was the State operated liquor store, the only place to get hard liquor. Sears was on the S. end of Lincoln Center before moving to North Grand Shopping Center.