The area at the top of the stairs/elevator -- with the extremely red vinyl floor -- is actually raised half a story above the main salesfloor, something I'm sure is a leftover from the bowling alley days. I feel like it's fairly common for bowling alleys to have a layout like this, with the lobby raised a bit above the main bowling lanes, though I suspect it wasn't quite as large of a difference prior to the conversion, as there's typically equipment under the floor of bowling alleys (the ball return system, at least).
Are those fireworks being sold by Target? I've never seen fireworks being sold by a normal store here in Houston. Of course, they would not be legal to sell at all within the City of Houston, but there are fireworks stores outside city limits. Usually the stores are little trailers which are only around for the 4th of July and New Year's Eve, but there are a few fireworks stores in permanent buildings as well.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised Target left that floor intact given the mismatching tiles, but I suppose what's left appears to be in good condition.
Yeah, I was pretty surprised to see fireworks in so many stores when I was in Portland! Around here, it's pretty much always tents in the parking lot, but I guess the rules must be different in Oregon.
DeleteI'm really not sure what's up with the flooring here. Target completely redid the front portion of this store, so I can't imagine it's actually original to the bowling alley (it seems to be in way too good shape for that)... but on the other hand, if Target replaced the flooring just about a year before my visit, why would it have so many mismatched tiles? From looking at my other pictures as well as Google Maps pictures, my guess is that the different tile colors were intended by Target to be a pattern, but they're too close to the base color such that they really look like they were just bad replacements.