The Stand Alone Sears Optical Centers
Sears has offered a lot of services over the years, auto centers, optical centers, portrait studios, etc. and Sears has also operated a lot of stand alone specialty stores over the years as well; Sears Hardware, Sears Hometown, Sears Optical, Sears Home Appliance Showroom, etc.
Notice what I said twice there? Everyone knows that Sears had optical centers in their full line stores, but nobody ever talks about their stand alone locations, so I figured that this might be a good opportunity to bring them up.
So without further adieu, let's take a look at the small amount of stand alone Sears Optical locations.
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1109 S Park St, Carrollton, GA 30117 |
It should also be worth noting that none of these locations are operating anymore, and that all of them have since closed.
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19 N Randall Rd, Batavia, IL 60510 |
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One weird thing to note about this store is that it uses a slightly different version of the Sears logo, where all of the lines inside of the letter "R" don't fully connect, like they should. |
A bit of a nit picky thing, and almost nobody would really notice it anyway, but I for some reason feel like it should me mentioned. |
Another thing to note about this location is that it was in the same plaza as a certain hardware store... |
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Labelscar |
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Which has seen been painted over and removed |
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19975 South La Grange Road, Frankfort, IL 60423
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The Sears logo used on this location doesn't have any lines in it for some reason |
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16779 Torrence Ave, Lansing, IL 60438
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Apparently these stand alone centers weren't completely forgotten by Sears, as they evidently gave some of them the new logo! |
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Vacant |
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1510A 75th St, Downers Grove, IL 60516 |
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151 Barrington Rd, Schaumburg, IL 60194 |
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2932 Walmart Dr, Huntington, IN 46750 |
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I was unable to get any pictures showing the front of the building. |
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4165 E Court St, Burton, MI 48509 |
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12 Grandview Plaza Shopping Center, Florissant, MO 63033 |
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3853 Burbank Rd, Wooster, OH 44691 |
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Rr 6 Box 6040, #18, Towanda, PA 18848 |
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This location didn't even use the Sears Optical logo, rather, it just had the words "SEARS OPTICAL" in a random generic-ish font. |
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The same plaza also had an arguably nice looking Kmart store too. |
*Not even a day after I initially uploaded this post to Blogger, I found some more contenders to go on the list.*
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19875 Center Ridge Rd, Rocky River, OH 44116 |
One of those abandoned store fronts to the far right was once home to a stand alone Sears Optical Center.
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That entire plaza has since been torn down for residential housing. |
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2050 N Richmond Rd, McHenry, IL 60051
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Tiny sign lol |
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On the other side of the plaza is a former Kmart / Sears Essentials |
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1360 Stoneridge Dr, Gahanna, OH 43230
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4260 Kent Rd Suite 20, Stow, OH 44224 |
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The neighboring Sally Beauty Supply would later expand into the former Optical space. |
Well, that's all of the stand alone Sears Optical centers that I know of.
Thanks for reading
All images are from Google Maps / Google Street View
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