Cut & Color
For this week’s teaser photos, we’re checking up on a bunch of retail developments in my hometown of Hernando! This first one is one that I’ve actually featured here on flickr before – the Fantastic Sams franchised barber shop, located on the east (Walmart) side of town.
Of particular noteworthiness is just why I’ve featured it on flickr before: back in April (incidentally, during the final week of classes in the spring semester, as compared to this week being the final week of classes in the fall semester!), I showed y’all that the place had unexpectedly closed down. However, I did make it a point to mention that I expected the place might open up again eventually under a new franchisee, given that the exterior sign was left intact, and everything inside remained untouched as well. Good foresight on my part – as you can see in this photo, a “rebooted” Fantastic Sams is indeed coming soon, per that banner!
The banner initially appeared as early as October 27th – a date that I have so precise because I made sure to take a picture of it on that day, except I did so with my digital camera (which I had on me because I had just photographed the brand-new Interstate 269 earlier in the day), and that photo didn’t turn out :/ Good thing I have such long delays in posting my photos, though – that crappy shot was almost about to go up tonight, but thankfully in that interim period I was able to get a much better photo of the building (shown above), and with it sporting a new exterior sign to boot!
This was something I was curious about… whether or not the store would be required to get the chain’s new(ish) logo on the outside if a new franchisee took over, despite the fact that the old sign seemed to have been left up on the exterior for that very purpose. Oh well – it all worked out in the end, I suppose! This sign looks really snazzy lit up at night, too – the letters glow bright white :) Now if only that labelscar could be addressed… tsk.
Fantastic Sams (now reopened) // 2346 McIngvale Road, Hernando, MS 38632
(c) 2018 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
Cut & Color
For this week’s teaser photos, we’re checking up on a bunch of retail developments in my hometown of Hernando! This first one is one that I’ve actually featured here on flickr before – the Fantastic Sams franchised barber shop, located on the east (Walmart) side of town.
Of particular noteworthiness is just why I’ve featured it on flickr before: back in April (incidentally, during the final week of classes in the spring semester, as compared to this week being the final week of classes in the fall semester!), I showed y’all that the place had unexpectedly closed down. However, I did make it a point to mention that I expected the place might open up again eventually under a new franchisee, given that the exterior sign was left intact, and everything inside remained untouched as well. Good foresight on my part – as you can see in this photo, a “rebooted” Fantastic Sams is indeed coming soon, per that banner!
The banner initially appeared as early as October 27th – a date that I have so precise because I made sure to take a picture of it on that day, except I did so with my digital camera (which I had on me because I had just photographed the brand-new Interstate 269 earlier in the day), and that photo didn’t turn out :/ Good thing I have such long delays in posting my photos, though – that crappy shot was almost about to go up tonight, but thankfully in that interim period I was able to get a much better photo of the building (shown above), and with it sporting a new exterior sign to boot!
This was something I was curious about… whether or not the store would be required to get the chain’s new(ish) logo on the outside if a new franchisee took over, despite the fact that the old sign seemed to have been left up on the exterior for that very purpose. Oh well – it all worked out in the end, I suppose! This sign looks really snazzy lit up at night, too – the letters glow bright white :) Now if only that labelscar could be addressed… tsk.
Fantastic Sams (now reopened) // 2346 McIngvale Road, Hernando, MS 38632
(c) 2018 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)