Former Value City, Youngstown, Ohio

1134 Boardman Poland Rd, Boardman, OH 44512

This Value City was originally a Woolco store

This store is weirdly... wide... I guess you could say

Value City stores usually weren't this big, also, what's with the 2 separate entrances?

Now, if you know anything about Value City, you know that they operated both department stores & furniture stores under the same name, and it wasn't uncommon to see both types of Value City stores right next to each other.

But that isn't the case with this location

You see, the entrance to the right of the building has this logo, which was only used for the department stores, and never the furniture stores
(image via their old website)

The entrance to the right has the older Value City logo, which was used on the department stores, and the furniture stores, at the same time

But it says it right there, clear as day, "department store"

Looking at the store from a slightly different angle, it looks like Value City originally opened their store on the left side of the building, than later expanded to the right side of the building (taking up whatever was there previously) and instead of remodeling the building to make one central entrance, they just decided to do this instead

Is that actually what happened here? I'm not sure, that's just speculation