Panning to the right, you can see the Macy's building through the old Sears site. The 80s arch looks even tackier these days, being right next to the modern (if boring) new entrance. Though at least it isn't ketchup-and-mustard-colored like the restaurant on the corner is!
It is rather strange to see other tenants on the side of an anchor like that. At most malls, the anchors are generally owned by the anchor tenants and not the mall, but I reckon that might not be the case here with the Sears at least. Maybe not and Sears was the one leasing those.
ReplyDeleteThat is a strange handicapped symbol on that handicapped placard! It's certainly different than what is used in Texas which is, as far as I know, the fairly standardized symbol for handicapped tags. Maybe that isn't the case after all!
Sears was off to the right of this picture, where the parking lot is now -- the black-and-white striped wall is where Sears used to connect to the mall. However, if the Pierce County parcel data is to be believed, it seems the mall does own all of the anchor spaces here, except for Nordstrom... though the information doesn't seem to be super reliable, so I'm not sure about that.
DeleteYeah, the symbol you're thinking of is the official, universal accessibility symbol, while this is the "progressive" version that is supposed to make wheelchair users feel better about themselves or something. If you can't tell from the way I wrote that, I think it's pretty dumb, and if I'm not mistaken, it technically isn't even ADA compliant, but Washington still insists on using it anyway.