The Caldor Rainbow

WOOD YOU LIKE TO TAKE A RIDE ON THE INGLESIDE? TURN THE TIME CIRCUITS ON, WE'RE GOING BACK TO 1982! Last month, The Caldor Rainbow has been out-of-the-blue obsessive about the Holyoke Mall's ...

http://thecaldorrainbow.blogspot.com/2012/04/take-me-back-to-this-holyoke-mall-land.html

A friend of mine recently stumbled on an oddball site known as The Manchester Mall on Main St. in Manchester, CT. It's not a mall, really. Instead, it was a limited indoor retail space that may...

http://thecaldorrainbow.blogspot.com/2012/04/what-was-riverview-plaza.html

THE CORNER STREET FRIED-CHICKEN FIXTURE FOR ALMOST 40 YEARS SITS VACANTLY, JUST DOWN THE ROAD FROM THE BUSY BUSINESS EPICENTER OF US-1 IN OLD SAYBROOK. Longtime owner Douglas J. Beach sold hi...

http://thecaldorrainbow.blogspot.com/2012/03/near-40-year-kfc-closes-in-old-saybrook.html

Who doesn't love historic photos? Furthermore, who doesn't love historic photos of shopping centers? From the mid-70s? Jackpot! Luckilly, the Plainedge Public Library of working class town Plai...

http://thecaldorrainbow.blogspot.com/2012/03/around-plainedge-circa-1976.html

Steely Dan took almost 20 years to come back with Two Against Nature. Supertramp lost the high-pitched guy and still came back. Sure, they haven't put out an album in almost ten years but I digr...

http://thecaldorrainbow.blogspot.com/2012/03/caldor-rainbow-returns.html

Check those expiration dates! Roll that cart back down that aisle! Way back... The Caldor Rainbow has uncovered a true gem of chain supermarket-dom somewhat rare, even around these parts, an ...

http://thecaldorrainbow.blogspot.com/2010/03/timewarped-stop-shop-remains-in-west.html

At 1440 Boston Post Road in Milford, the red-glazed neon once signaling freshly-made glazed donuts right off the conveyor belt lights no more. Driving up and down the ever-bustling US-1, Bost...

http://thecaldorrainbow.blogspot.com/2010/02/krispy-kreme-klosed.html

Well, that's all folks! That's pretty much what the Bentonville, AK-based juggernaut big box retailer Walmart said to its entire staff and patrons of the nearly ten-year Farmington Ave., New...

http://thecaldorrainbow.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-britain-walmart-closure-and.html

Roy Rogers himself may be dead and I think his burgers, chicken and roast beef chain seems to be following down that road. In fact, I was ready to accept Roy Rogers restaurant as an endangered ...

http://thecaldorrainbow.blogspot.com/2009/08/shirley-not-mistaken-free-standing-roy.html

Remember that story we did over a year ago about Toys "R" Us putting a store in North Haven? Remember when we breached the story early? So early, in fact, we had doubts it would ever come to ...

http://thecaldorrainbow.blogspot.com/2009/08/toys-r-us-finally-opens-in-north-haven.html

For the past many years, plenty have seen that vacant Pizza Hut on Silver Lane. Or perhaps you've taken the diamond lane before Exit 58 on I-84 Eastbound, glanced over and witnessed that famil...

http://thecaldorrainbow.blogspot.com/2009/08/silver-lane-pizza-hut-back-from-7-year.html

I'm not too familiar with the state of New Jersey. As a lifelong Connecticut native, I've been here the amount of times I can count on one hand (that didn't include Six Flags, at least), main...

http://thecaldorrainbow.blogspot.com/2009/08/bradlees-still-lingers-in-garden-state.html

Ames may have closed back in 2003, but that doesn't mean the chain has been completely forgotten. How could it when there are still a handful of empty buildings leftover all across the Northea...

http://thecaldorrainbow.blogspot.com/2009/08/ames-updates-vacancy-in-lowell.html

We're in the throws of losing yet another vacancy left by the late New London-based discounter Bradlees -- in the state of Massachusetts. As previously reported, there was only two vacant Bra...

http://thecaldorrainbow.blogspot.com/2009/08/roslindale-bradlees-to-become-new-stop.html

Hello all. I want to assure you I'm still here though much of my activity has diverted away from doing stories on The Caldor Rainbow as of late. Fear not. I'm not going anywhere. Lately, I've...

http://thecaldorrainbow.blogspot.com/2009/08/keep-ahead.html

Welcome to the new Danbury Fair Mall. As we've mused before, the emblematic vintage neon "Danbury Fair" sign is now gone. The funky sign, which was erected (shortly after this preview sign )...

http://thecaldorrainbow.blogspot.com/2009/04/22-year-danbury-fair-mall-neon-sign.html

Residents of the Killingly area might know it well as a common dilapidated site on the Hartford Turnpike, shortly off Exit 93 along I-395 of one post-mortem Ames. The Dayville location, a s...

http://thecaldorrainbow.blogspot.com/2009/02/dayville-ames-remains-after-six-years.html

It's been a while since we've discussed Ames. Yes, Ames, the late green (once red)-clad discounter that ended its decades' run succeeding the troubled Framingham, Mass.-based Zayre chain to w...

http://thecaldorrainbow.blogspot.com/2009/02/agawam-ames-becomes-daves-pet-and-soda.html

Plug time! Most of you may be unaware of my buddy Nick Fusari and I's talkshow or "podcast" (for neo-media aged folks) Friday Knights of the Round Table . We began this endeavor a few months ago...

http://thecaldorrainbow.blogspot.com/2009/02/friday-knights-look-back-on-toys-r-us.html

Like a sepia sunset, The old-fashioned burger-n-fries chain Roy Rogers is done in Manchester. Over done (bad joke?). The franchise-operated quick-serve restaurant well known for its roast beef...

http://thecaldorrainbow.blogspot.com/2009/01/roy-rogers-rides-no-more-in-manchester.html

Say goodbye to yet another retail electronics giant, Circuit City. As you've heard , the chain has announced everything must go, announcing chainwide liquidation this past Friday January 16, 2...

http://thecaldorrainbow.blogspot.com/2009/01/everything-must-go-at-circuit-city.html

Reader Jessica Nielsen threw us an e-mail and accompanied gallery of photos of yet another left-behind Toys "R" Us located in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It would appear apart from the stripped-...

http://thecaldorrainbow.blogspot.com/2009/01/retro-toys-r-us-bowling-green-kentucky.html

The Caldor Rainbow reader and fellow retail enthusiast who traverses the circuit of mall-related blogs, Jack Thomas, has provided wonderful on-site pictures of a known, old-school Toys "R" Us ...

http://thecaldorrainbow.blogspot.com/2009/01/retro-toys-r-us-in-tallahassee.html

It's been too long since we've featured a Toys "R" Us related update, and thanks to plenty of badgering by our own reader Jonah Norason, a regular who always provides worthwhile feedback in our m...

http://thecaldorrainbow.blogspot.com/2008/12/retro-toys-r-us-round-up.html

BLACK FRIDAY is here again. Fresh on the minds of those who dozed off from turkey (not tofurky) at the early noon hours of Thursday, they were caching up on sleep, ready to cash in on the daw...

http://thecaldorrainbow.blogspot.com/2008/11/black-friday-1978.html